Microsoft Seeking For Attorney

Are you interested in the application of AI and Machine Learning to solve business problems? And, are you interested in joining one of the fastest-growing business divisions at Microsoft? If so, read on!

Microsoft’s Dynamics applications help our customers manager their people, data, and business processes so they can grow and succeed. Dynamics is one of the fastest-growing commercial cloud offerings at Microsoft. In the Dynamics group, our AI engineering product teams leverage AI and Machine Learning to empower organizations to discover insights, take action, and improve customer experiences. Our AI product teams need a smart and creative lawyer to be their trusted advisor.

Just imagine: You could apply your creative legal thinking with the team that helps organizations build their own customer service bots in just minutes! And you could support the team using AI to deliver business insights using online data! And, you could partner with our team building customer care AI to help businesses improve their customer care functions! These novel scenarios—and many more—are being built right now by the Dynamics 365 AI teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as front-line legal counsel to engineering teams creating Dynamics AI business solutions.
• Help provide creative and proactive counseling on a broad range of complex legal, business and policy issues for engineering and business clients engaged in implementing Microsoft’s Dynamics strategy that includes a focus on artificial intelligence.
• Use independent judgment and collaboration to evaluate and counsel on a range of legal issues, including novel ones relating to cutting edge technologies and use cases.
• Engage with business clients to understand business strategies, timelines, and goals.
• Draft and negotiate a variety of legal agreements in coordination with business development, engineering teams, and CELA partners—including agreements covering data acquisition, development, licensing and collaboration agreements and intellectual property acquisitions.
• Partner with engineering, AI ethics, and regulatory affairs teams to develop policies and best practices related to legal and regulatory issues that affect the business.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, and drive those improvements. Share those improvements across the wider Microsoft legal community.
• Be a great teammate! We work best when we collaborate.

Qualifications

The successful candidate must have a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and at least 3 years of experience as a practicing attorney. We also require outstanding academic credentials, excellent oral and written communication skills and a commitment to providing the highest quality client service. Experience with product development, software licensing and other commercial contracts involving the acquisition and exploitation of technology and IP will be valuable. The successful candidate will need to collaborate well with colleagues and be effective in managing projects across organizational boundaries to drive results. Familiarity with IP and privacy law (in the United States and Europe) is preferred.

The above description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work to be performed by the successful candidate. The actual duties and responsibilities may vary in line with business imperatives.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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Location: Redmond, WA