Senior Legal Counsel - AI and Technology

monday.com is the AI work platform powering the most ambitious teams. 250,000+ customers across departments use us to bring people, workflows, and AI agents together on one flexible platform where AI doesn't just assist, it executes. We move fast, build things that matter, and foster an ownership-driven culture where you're empowered to shape how organizations work and outpace their competition.

As monday.com continues to build an AI-native work platform, our Legal-Tech team is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to work alongside the teams building these products and technologies. This role sits at the intersection of law, technology, and product development, helping translate complex legal questions into paths forward.

This role will be part of our global Legal-Tech team and will work closely with AI, Product, R&D, Security, Privacy, Data, IP, Commercial, and other cross functional teams across the company. The role will focus on providing practical, timely, and commercially minded legal advice on AI and technology matters throughout the product lifecycle - from early design and architecture discussions through development, launch, and ongoing operation.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working directly with builders and technical teams, understanding how products and systems work, identifying the legal and business implications of different design choices, and helping teams find workable paths forward. They will bring strong expertise in AI and technology, while also understanding the privacy, data, IP, contractual, and commercial context in which these products operate.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can operate independently, take ownership of complex and ambiguous matters, and become a trusted legal partner to teams building monday.com’s next generation of AI powered products.

• Advise on the legal aspects of AI and technology products throughout their lifecycle, including ideation, architecture, development, testing, launch, and post-launch changes.

• Partner directly with Product, R&D, AI, Security, Data, GTM and other teams to identify legal considerations early and embed legal-by-design principles into product development.

• Develop a practical understanding of product architecture, data flows, model functionality, agents, integrations, connectors, user permissions and access controls, product configurations, retention, and other relevant environments.

• Assess how different technical and product design choices affect legal, privacy, data, IP, regulatory, contractual, and operational risk and provide clear, actionable guidance to mitigate risks and maintain compliance with relevant laws and requirements .

• Translate complex technical, regulatory, and business issues into clear, practical legal advice and recommendations for stakeholders, including by helping teams assess alternatives, understand trade-offs, and design workable solutions.

• Advise on AI governance, responsible AI, AI risk management, regulatory requirements, product controls, and customer facing disclosures in connection with internal AI products and business applications..

• Support the development and implementation of scalable AI governance frameworks, playbooks, review processes, and internal guidance, including practical workflows, controls, approvals, accountability, monitoring, and escalation processes.

• Identify emerging legal and regulatory developments relating to AI, data, digital technologies, SaaS, and technology regulation, and translate them into practical implications and actions for the business.

• Advise on general product legal matters, including product functionality, packaging and pricing, user and admin permissions, access controls, disclosures, notices, consents, customer and user choices, feature enablement flows, billing and usage-related issues, and other product and customer facing related legal requirements.

• Contribute to the protection and commercialization of the company’s technology and IP, including advising on ownership, licensing, use rights, open source issues, data related rights, and technology partnerships.

• Draft, review, and negotiate AI, technology, licensing, IP, vendor, partnership, and other agreements, including agreements with technology and AI providers.

• Support the Commercial Legal team on strategic customer or partner transactions where AI, technology, data, IP, or product specific issues are involved.

• Advise on the company’s internal use of AI across departments and business functions, including relating to privacy, data and AI related issues and legal requirements.

• Partner with Security, Privacy, IT, Procurement, Compliance, and business teams to assess and approve third-party AI tools and

• Provide practical support to marketing and go-to-market teams on AI and product related claims, disclosures, product positioning, and customer communications.

• Build knowledge, tools, and repeatable processes that allow the broader Legal team to handle recurring AI and technology questions efficiently, and serve as a source of expertise and guidance to help raise the team’s overall capability in these areas.

• Serve as a source of expertise and guidance for other Legal team members and help raise the team’s overall capability in AI and technology matters.

• Develop and deliver practical training, guidance, and enablement materials for cross-functional teams.

• Collaborate with Legal teams across global sites to promote consistent approaches to AI, product, privacy, IP, and regulatory matters.

• Qualified to practice law in Israel.

• 5–8 years of relevant legal experience, preferably including experience in-house at a global technology, SaaS or AI company.

• Meaningful experience advising on AI products, AI technologies, AI governance, or technology driven products and services, from early design through launch and ongoing operation..

• Strong understanding of how AI and technology systems are designed and operated, including the ability to engage substantively with technical teams on architecture, data flows, models, integrations, agents, and product functionality.

• Experience drafting and negotiating technology, AI, licensing, IP, vendor, partnership, and other strategic agreements.

• Ability to understand complex technical and business issues quickly and translate them into clear, practical legal advice.

• Ability to assess alternatives, identify trade offs, and help design workable product or operational solutions.

• Comfortable operating independently in an ambiguous and fast-moving environment, taking ownership from issue identification through resolution.

• Proactive and able to anticipate legal needs, identify gaps, and move matters forward.

• Collaborative, comfortable working directly with various stakeholders and challenging assumptions constructively.

• Able to manage shifting priorities and deliver high-quality advice at speed.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence technical, product, commercial, and senior business stakeholders.

• A natural teacher and multiplier who can share knowledge, develop practical guidance, and help other Legal team members grow.

• Experience working in a global organization is strongly preferred, particularly experience collaborating across multiple jurisdictions and functions.

What monday.com can offer you:

• Join a customer-obsessed team where transparency and ownership are how we actually operate - not just things we put on a wall

• Work on a multi-product suite powered by advanced AI, where what you ship reaches hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide

• Competitive salary, benefits, bonus potential, and equity eligibility for many roles — we believe people should share in our success

• Grow fast through a dedicated L&D team, AI workshops, bootcamps, and internal hackathons - the industry moves quick and so do we

• A collaborative, global culture backed by Employee Resource Groups and workplace teams across New York, Tel Aviv, London, Munich, Warsaw, Tokyo, Sydney, and more