Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - Artificial Intelligence

As a member of Capital Ones Tech Reg Legal Business Counsel team youll apply your legal strategic and analytical skills to programs and initiatives driving Capital Ones most innovative technology and solutions. Youll dive in to understand the processes governance and products that Capital Ones Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI teams deliver to the enterprise and be the legal partner that supports cutting edge innovation and responsible Artificial Intelligence development. Youll be a dedicated legal partner supporting the enterprise AI/ML organization and serve as our legal department AI ML and Generative AI subject matter expert. And youll do it all in a collaborative supportive environment that values your insight promotes continuous learning and rewards creative thinking.

To succeed in this role youll need strong business and legal skills with an ability to draw on prior experience relevant to identifying legal issues associated with the development of machine learning models and algorithms as well as frontier artificial intelligence. Additionally written and oral communication and organizational skills are key as is good judgment and the ability to focus on what really matters to drive business initiatives forward while clearly defining and strategizing on ways to reduce legal risk. You should have a successful track record of thriving in a fast paced entrepreneurial and dynamic environment.

In this role youll be part of a team that:

• Provides strategic advice: Youll be something of an investigator: youll work on projects that impact our many lines of business and horizontal teams (Branded & Partnerships Cards Retail Bank Commercial Bank Auto Finance Enterprise products like Capital One Shopping and internally developed products for our Technology HR Finance and other supporting organizations) so youll drill down into how we do what we do and why we do what we do so we can build a better way. Youll understand the business objectives understand the full legal policy and regulatory landscape and work through uncharted territory as you apply the law to business initiatives.

• Translates the law for the business and translates business intent for the lawyers: Youll need to understand the legal and regulatory environment (e.g. AI Risk Management Frameworks AI/ML best practices and responsible use proposed AI legislation and regulation) understand the business (e.g. consumer credit consumer budgeting and finance all those other things related to how we run our business both inside and out) understand the technology (foundation models agentic AI APIs mobile and web applications SaaS) understand the teams (e.g. business analysts product engineering and design professionals) and put them all together as a trusted business advisor. Youll translate between business intent regulatory requirements legal guardrails best practices etc. You wont need to know everything about everything but youll need to know a little about a lot and know how to communicate legal requirements to the business and business requirements to legal subject matter experts.

• Partners to foster innovation: Youll collaborate closely with colleagues across the Legal Department (including and especially the Intellectual Property legal team) to fully evaluate and scale risk. Youll work to push responsible innovation in challenging gray areas.

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school

• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar

• At least 4 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm environment at a government agency as a military judge advocate or as in-house counsel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Personal interest in technology

• 2 years of experience in domestic and international artificial intelligence-specific legislation regulation and risk management frameworks

• 2 years of experience in domestic and international data privacy laws

• Experience counseling and negotiating AI/ML research and university agreements.

• Experience negotiating generative AI service agreements.

At this time Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.

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