Head of Legal

About this role

OWN YOUR INTELLIGENCE

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made available to every ambitious AI team.

Our platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment into one full-stack system for post-training at frontier scale - from SFT and RL to tool use, agent workflows, and continuously improving production models. We are building open frontier AI: open-source models trained end to end for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research, and the full-stack platform our own research team uses to build them. The next generation of AI companies, enterprises, and research teams do not just need more GPUs. They need the ability to turn their own workflows, tools, data, and feedback loops into superintelligence they own.

Prime Intellect has raised $150M in total funding from Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, and exceptional AI, infrastructure, and enterprise operators — including Andrej Karpathy, Dwarkesh Patel, and leaders and founders from Ramp, Perplexity, Harvey, Mercor, Zapier, Datadog, Cognition, OpenAI, Thinking Machines, Together AI, SemiAnalysis, LangChain, Browserbase, Cloudflare, Sierra, Databricks, Airbnb, OpenRouter, Standard Intelligence, Fleet, Core Auto, and more. We are looking for people who want to build at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a category that does not fully exist yet.

Your Role

Prime Intellect operates at the commercial center of one of the most consequential markets in technology. We negotiate nine- and ten-figure compute commitments with neoclouds and hyperscalers globally. We sign enterprise contracts with researchers, startups, and Fortune 500s consuming compute at scale. We ship open-source models and infrastructure that shape how the AI ecosystem develops. The legal architecture underneath all of this is a strategic function — not a downstream review process — and the Head of Legal owns it.

You will build and own the legal function at Prime Intellect end-to-end: commercial contracts across customers and suppliers, corporate governance, fundraising, IP and open-source strategy, regulatory positioning, and the operational systems that let legal scale alongside the company. You'll partner directly with leadership on the deals, structures, and decisions that define what Prime Intellect can do.

This is a builder role. We're at the stage where the legal function is being defined — playbooks, templates, contract management infrastructure, outside counsel relationships, compliance posture. The person who steps into this seat will set the foundations that the company runs on for years.

Responsibilities

Commercial Contracts

- Own the commercial contract function end-to-end: customer MSAs, DPAs, order forms, enterprise agreements, and the playbooks that let the company close deals quickly without compromising on terms

- Negotiate and structure compute supply contracts with neoclouds, hyperscalers, and datacenter operators globally — reserved capacity agreements, MSAs, vendor financing arrangements, and the contractual architecture around our largest commitments

- Build the contract templates, playbooks, and CLM infrastructure that let the company scale commercial volume without scaling friction proportionally

- Partner closely with Sales and the Compute team on deal structuring and negotiation strategy

Corporate & Governance

- Own corporate governance: board materials, written consents, equity grants, cap table management, and the governance cadence that scales with the company

- Lead legal workstreams on fundraising rounds, including diligence, documentation, and execution

- Manage stock administration, equity plan governance, 409A coordination, and equity-related compliance

- Build M&A readiness over time — clean cap table, organized contracts, defensible IP positioning, audit-ready documentation

IP & Open Source

- Own Prime Intellect's open-source legal strategy: model weights licensing, contributor agreements, repository governance, and the IP architecture around our research and product output

- Build the framework for IP allocation in customer contracts — particularly around model training, fine-tuning, and derivative work

- Manage trademark, patent, and broader IP strategy as the company grows

Regulatory & Compliance

- Own Prime Intellect's positioning on the regulatory frameworks shaping AI infrastructure: export controls, AI-specific regulations (EU AI Act, US executive orders), data privacy (GDPR, CCPA), and the compliance regimes our enterprise customers require

- Build the compliance posture that supports enterprise sales: SOC 2, security policies, data processing addenda, and the documentation customers expect from a serious infrastructure provider

- Partner with the security and engineering teams on compliance program execution

Function Building

- Manage outside counsel relationships and rationalize what's done in-house vs. externally — building the right balance of speed, expertise, and cost

- Build the team as the company scales — first hire likely a senior commercial counsel within 6–12 months, then specialized hires as needs emerge

- Establish the legal operations infrastructure: CLM, contract templates, playbooks, knowledge management

What We're Looking For

- 8–12+ years of legal experience, ideally combining 3–5 years at a top tier firm with substantial in-house experience at a high-growth technology company

- Strong commercial instincts — you negotiate to enable deals, not just to manage risk. You understand how contract structure shapes business outcomes, and you bring solutions, not just issue lists

- Deep experience with commercial contracts at scale — enterprise customer agreements, large vendor or supplier contracts, and the operational infrastructure that supports commercial volume

- Fami

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