AI is rapidly transforming the world. As generative AI reshapes industries, teams need powerful ways to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their AI systems. That’s where we come in. Arize AI is the leading AI & Agent Engineering observability and evaluation platform, empowering AI engineers to ship high-performing, reliable agents and applications. From first prototype to production scale, Arize AX unifies build, test, and run in a single workspace—so teams can ship faster with confidence.
We’re a Series C company backed by top-tier investors, with over $135M in funding and a rapidly growing customer base of 150+ leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. Customers like Booking.com, Uber, Siemens, and PepsiCo leverage Arize to deliver AI that works.
About Arize AI
Arize AI is the leading enterprise platform for AI and ML observability, evaluation and production-scale reliability. As generative AI and mission-critical ML systems become core to federal agencies and defense/intelligence operations, we empower teams to deploy, monitor and improve AI with confidence. Backed by top-tier investors and working with Fortune-scale customers, we are now accelerating our federal expansion and seeking a high-impact sales leader to join us.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking a Corporate Counsel to join Arize AI as our first in-house legal hire. Reporting to leadership and working closely with our outside General Counsel, you’ll own the day-to-day legal operations that fuel our business growth. This is a high-impact role where you’ll negotiate critical customer and vendor agreements, ensure commercial transactions move efficiently, and build the legal foundations for a scaling organization.
This role is ideal for a commercially-minded attorney who thrives in a fast-paced start-up environment, enjoys being hands-on, and wants to shape legal processes from the ground up.
What You’ll Do:
- Contract Negotiation & Management: Lead negotiations and draft customer agreements, vendor contracts, partnership agreements, NDAs, and other commercial contracts that drive revenue and support operations
- Revenue Enablement: Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue teams to accelerate deal cycles while managing legal risk appropriately
- Vendor & Procurement: Review and negotiate SaaS agreements, professional services contracts, and other vendor relationships to support company operations
- Policy & Process Development: Build scalable contract templates, playbooks, and processes to enable the business to move quickly as we grow
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted legal advisor to Sales, Product & Engineering, Marketing, HR, and Finance on a wide range of business matters
- Outside Counsel Coordination: Work effectively with our external General Counsel on corporate governance, equity administration, employment matters, IP, and strategic legal issues
- Compliance & Risk Management: Identify legal and compliance risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure adherence to relevant regulations (data privacy, security, etc.)
- Special Projects: Support fundraising, due diligence, and other strategic initiatives as the company scales
What We’re Looking For:
Required:
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing
- 3-5 years of legal experience, with significant focus on commercial contracts (preferably in SAAS, technology, or start-up environments)
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills with a business-oriented mindset
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Excellent judgment in balancing legal risk with business objectives
- Clear, concise communication skills and ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders
- Start-up mentality: scrappy, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity
Preferred:
- In-house experience at a high-growth SAAS or technology company
- Familiarity with AI/ML, data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), and enterprise software licensing models
- Experience supporting sales and revenue organizations
- Knowledge of corporate governance and securities law
The salary range for this role is $300,000-$325,000 total compensation depending on experience.
Arize’s mission is to make the world’s AI work—and work for people.
Our founders came together through a shared frustration: while investments in AI are growing rapidly across every industry, organizations face a critical challenge—understanding whether AI is performing and how to improve it at scale.
Learn more about what we're doing here:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/arize-ai-hopes-it-has-first-mover-advantage-in-ai-observability/
https://arize.com/blog/arize-ai-raises-70m-series-c-to-build-the-gold-standard-for-ai-evaluation-observability/
Diversity & Inclusion @ Arize
Our company's mission is to make AI work and make AI work for the people, we hope to make an impact in bias industry-wide and that's a big motivator for people who work here. We actively hope that individuals contribute to a good culture
- Regularly have chats with industry experts, researchers, and ethicists across the ecosystem to advance the use of responsible AI
- Culturally conscious events such as LGBTQ trivia during pride month
- We have an active Lady Arizers subgroup
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