Job Description
Scale seeks a business-minded Director and Associate General Counsel Compliance to lead Scale’s corporate compliance program. This role will set the legal standards governance model and escalation framework for the program working closely with cross-functional partners to translate that guidance into practical workflows.
This is a high-impact role for a lawyer who combines strong legal judgment with practical program execution in a fast-moving high-visibility business.
You Will:
- Advise on anti-bribery and anti-corruption conflicts of interest gifts and entertainment third-party risk and other sensitive corporate compliance matters.
- Lead or support privileged compliance investigations remediation and escalations coordinating across Legal and with outside counsel where matters involve potential litigation or enforcement risk.
- Develop practical compliance policies workflows training and reporting processes that support Scale’s growth and IPO-readiness.
- Mature Scale’s Enterprise Risk Management process including risk assessment methodology risk register governance mitigation tracking and leadership reporting.
- Set legal standards for compliance operations including hotline triage sensitive matter review policy governance training requirements and remediation escalation.
- Partner across Legal GRC Security Product Engineering Finance People Public Sector and other business teams on compliance and IPO-readiness.
- Represent Scale’s corporate compliance function with internal and external stakeholders including customers auditors partners and regulators.
Ideally you’d have:
- JD and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 10+ years of legal experience across corporate compliance investigations regulatory counseling GRC internal controls or related areas.
- Experience building or scaling compliance programs in high-growth technology or similarly complex environments.
- Strong experience with anti-bribery and anti-corruption conflicts of interest third-party risk hotline governance and privileged investigations.
- Experience maturing ERM policy governance training remediation tracking risk reporting and IPO-readiness or public-company compliance.
- Strong judgment and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across legal technical operational and executive stakeholders.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with AI governance or regulation.
- Familiarity with government contractor compliance export controls or industrial security.
- Experience with multinational compliance programs including Europe the Middle East Asia and Latin America.
Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary equity and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience interview performance and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including but not limited to: Comprehensive health dental and vision coverage retirement benefits a learning and development stipend and generous PTO. Additionally this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.
About Us:
At Scale our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models and help enterprises and governments build deploy and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta Cisco DLA Piper Mayo Clinic Time Inc. the Government of Qatar and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability status gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability please contact us at [email protected]. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive experience in GRC compliance or related legal/regulatory roles
- Experience designing and operating an Enterprise Risk Management program
- Deep knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements
- Excellent communication skills to simplify complex requirements
Scale AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Scale AI and has not been reviewed or approved by Scale AI.
- Healthcare Strength—Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive across medical dental and vision with flexibility to choose plans that fit individual or family needs. A monthly wellness stipend further supports physical and mental wellbeing expenses.
- Equity Value & Accessibility—Equity-based compensation is included in eligible packages positioning ownership as a meaningful component of total rewards for many full-time roles. An employee stock purchase plan also provides an additional pathway to participate in potential upside.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—Paid time off is positioned as generous with a flexible policy intended to support recharging and burnout prevention. Paid holidays and paid sick days are also part of the time-off offering.
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What We Do
Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR image video and NLP annotation APIs allow machine learning teams at companies like OpenAI Lyft Pinterest and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.
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