Top Senior Legal Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Handle complex professional liability claims, primarily legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include coverage evaluation, risk transfer analysis, independent investigation, liability and damages assessment, reserving, litigation management, counsel coordination, negotiation, exposure communication, and resolution strategy development. The role requires at least seven years of professional liability claims experience, strong legal and claims expertise, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and periodic travel for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Senior Counsel will support commercial, product, compliance, privacy, corporate, and AI-related legal matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating SaaS and commercial agreements, advising on privacy, security, compliance, and emerging AI regulations, managing legal templates and playbooks, supporting corporate governance and intellectual property, and implementing legal technology and automation tools. The role requires a U.S.-based attorney with substantial in-house SaaS or technology experience and active bar membership.

Negotiate complex commercial agreements and intellectual property licenses, partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams. Develop contract templates, playbooks, policies, processes, and performance metrics to accelerate deal velocity. Advise leadership on commercial, IP, data protection, and regulatory matters; use AI to improve legal workflows and mentor junior team members in a fast-growing, fully remote company.

Supports employment attorneys on complex labor, benefits, and human resources legal matters. Conducts legal research, monitors legislation, supports litigation and agency filings, coordinates outside counsel, manages legal tracking systems and document production, drafts employment documents and policies, and collaborates with HR on employee relations inquiries. Provides analysis, recommendations, project management, and process improvements while maintaining confidentiality and independently handling routine legal tasks.

Supports attorneys and business partners on complex legal matters involving insurance, healthcare, technology, AI, privacy, and operations. Conducts legal research, contract review, legislative monitoring, case management, document production, and knowledge management. Coordinates with outside counsel, analyzes legal requirements, recommends risk-mitigation strategies, manages legal projects, and improves legal processes while providing status updates and escalation support.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates U.S. and international SaaS, cloud, software licensing, services, reseller, and OEM agreements. Advises Sales and cross-functional teams on commercial risk, technology contracts, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, monitors legal developments, manages external counsel, and supports training and process improvement.

Manages trademark clearance searches, USPTO prosecution filings and Office Action responses, portfolio deadlines, TTAB and enforcement support, and client and foreign associate communications. Maintains accurate docketing records, prepares search reports and infringement materials, and independently manages multiple client matters in a remote, technology-forward environment.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, advising on privacy, data, AI, compliance, product, intellectual property, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal operations. The role partners with executive, product, engineering, security, sales, finance, and people teams; develops playbooks and self-service processes; oversees GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and reduces reliance on outside counsel.

Serve as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, leading privacy, data, AI, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security support. Advise executive and cross-functional teams, oversee GDPR and data compliance, respond to security questionnaires, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance. The role reduces reliance on outside counsel while enabling product development and business growth across SaaS, digital commerce, recommendations, and advertising.

Advise ads product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams on privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and product development matters. Counsel the advertising business on GDPR, CCPA, international regulations, content policies, and risk management. Monitor regulatory trends and collaborate cross-functionally to support compliant ad-tech products and services.

Provides senior corporate, regulatory, commercial, healthcare, privacy, and intellectual property legal counsel. Drafts and negotiates customer, vendor, licensing, data use, and other business agreements; advises on product compliance, contracts, marketing materials, and risk strategies; manages legal projects and outside counsel; and supports federal, state, and industry compliance activities.

Owns regulatory filings, compliance calendars, KYC and AML processes, legal contract administration, corporate housekeeping, governance records, and investor reporting across UTOPIA’s fund manager and venture studio entities. Coordinates with outsourced compliance professionals, external counsel, regulators, administrators, and internal stakeholders to ensure obligations, filings, registers, and documentation remain accurate, complete, and timely.

Provide commercial and government-contracting legal support across the contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk review, disputes, and contract administration. Advise on FAR, DFARS, procurement rules, state regulatory requirements, flow-down provisions, cybersecurity obligations, and government disclosures. Develop legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and compliance procedures while partnering with Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Information Security in a remote, international environment.

The Legal Operations Manager will manage contract lifecycles, negotiate commercial agreements, coordinate clinical and corporate legal matters, maintain governance and equity records, support financing diligence, oversee outside counsel and legal spend, administer contract management systems, and track intellectual property, compliance, and regulatory documentation. The role also develops scalable legal processes, workflows, templates, and reporting for a growing medtech company.

Develop and refine AI-powered legal and contract workflows in collaboration with product, engineering, service delivery, and clients. Create training and enablement materials, monitor legal AI and contract automation markets, evaluate workflow quality, experiment with prompts and prototypes, and advise stakeholders on practical AI applications. The role requires transactional legal experience, hands-on use of legal AI tools, strong communication, and hybrid work in the New York City office three days per week.

Own the commercial contracting lifecycle across intake, drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and repository management. Administer and scale Ironclad workflows, templates, playbooks, permissions, reporting, migrations, and automation. Independently negotiate NDAs, prepare agreement markups, manage SLAs, coordinate cross-functional approvals, maintain contract data quality, and improve processes through workflow automation and AI tools.

Own the operational backbone of the Legal function, including intake, matter tracking, contract lifecycle management, corporate records, governance calendars, compliance administration, policy management, legal playbooks, outside-counsel coordination, and cross-functional legal projects. The role also manages legal technology, employee training, reporting, and support for privacy, security, AI governance, accessibility, SOC 2, and CMMC initiatives.

Leads complex data center, infrastructure, procurement, lease, colocation, facilities, and operations agreements for a global cloud platform. Negotiates transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk and performance, supports international expansion, and develops scalable legal templates, playbooks, and approval frameworks. Requires substantial in-house infrastructure transaction experience, a J.D., and active U.S. bar admission.

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.