Top Senior Legal Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Supports attorneys in litigation by drafting and finalizing legal documents, electronically filing court documents, managing calendars and deadlines, coordinating hearings and appointments, communicating with clients and legal professionals, preparing expense reports, and maintaining billing documentation. The role also handles administrative assignments and requires proficiency with Microsoft Office, iManage, legal terminology, and litigation procedures.

Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and files routine and complex contracts, including clinical trial, vendor, service, and work order agreements. Advises business partners on contractual risks, supports the contract management system, protects proprietary technology, assists with Legal financial requisitions, researches legal issues, and coordinates with attorneys and clinical teams. The role also provides contract-system training and requires independent judgment, strong corporate legal knowledge, collaboration, organization, and deadline management.

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.

Provides administrative, clerical, document-processing, and patent prosecution support to attorneys, patent agents, and clients. Responsibilities include maintaining IP files, tracking patent and trademark deadlines, processing correspondence, managing time entry and billing, preparing reports and invoices, coordinating communications, updating case records, and supporting business development. The role requires strong organization, confidentiality, client service, attention to detail, and knowledge of domestic and foreign patent prosecution procedures.

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.

Leads litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategy affecting pharmaceutical innovation, drug pricing, access, and reimbursement. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex disputes and government investigations, oversees outside counsel and budgets, engages government and industry stakeholders, and monitors legal and regulatory developments. Requires substantial trial and appellate litigation experience, policy judgment, executive presence, and collaboration across a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment.

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.

Senior Legal Counsel will advise ABB leaders across the Americas on commercial contracts, compliance, disputes, employment matters, strategic transactions, and cross-border legal risks. The role will negotiate complex agreements, manage litigation and external counsel, support mergers and acquisitions, develop contract processes, and coordinate with legal teams across jurisdictions and business divisions.

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.

Senior Commercial Counsel supporting Americas go-to-market activities by reviewing and negotiating complex SaaS, software licensing, professional services, reseller, and customer agreements. The role leads multijurisdictional transactions, advises on regulatory and compliance developments, trains stakeholders, maintains legal policies and templates, and develops scalable workflows. Candidates should have strong commercial legal experience, business judgment, communication skills, and a U.S. state bar membership, with experience in high-growth technology companies preferred.