Top Counsel Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Lead commercial contracting and provide practical legal guidance across sales, partnerships, product, finance, marketing, people, and IT. Negotiate SaaS, enterprise, marketplace, vendor, data protection, and strategic agreements; support enterprise deals and diligence; improve legal intake, contracting processes, playbooks, and self-service resources. Advise on privacy, AI, product, regulatory, corporate, employment, compliance, and dispute matters while helping develop a scalable legal function.

Owns the employment legal function, advising HR and business leaders on employment and labor matters, managing disputes and outside counsel, and maintaining employment documentation. Builds legal operations, compliance programs, tracking systems, self-service tools, and technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Supports insurance, enterprise risk, corporate governance, board matters, investigations, restructurings, transactions, and workforce integration.

Provide strategic patent counseling for key pharmaceutical assets: develop global patent filing and prosecution strategies, assess freedom-to-operate and IP risk, advise senior management, lead projects and task-directed teams, and drive continuous improvement in patent practice.

Support Affirm’s capital markets and bank partnerships teams by structuring and executing financing transactions. Draft, review, and negotiate domestic and international deal documents, advise on lending and securities laws, and guide transactions from strategy through execution. The role also supports capitalization strategy, partner-bank expansion, and special projects while collaborating with internal business teams and external parties.

Provides legal guidance on global regulatory compliance, privacy, AI governance, cybersecurity, SaaS transactions, third-party risk, audits, export controls, and corporate governance. Advises cross-functional teams, supports customer security and privacy due diligence, drafts DPAs and SCCs, manages compliance documentation and regulatory filings, assists with SOC 2 readiness, and supports litigation discovery and legal holds.

Serve as Collective’s product and regulatory lawyer, advising Product and Member Operations from design through launch. Lead regulatory guidance across tax, payments, insurance, and partnerships; draft member-facing terms and disclosures; build the compliance program; advise on privacy, data use, AI disclosures, GLBA, and CCPA/CPRA; and chair the Risk Oversight Committee while reporting risks to leadership and the Board.

Lead complex litigation, arbitrations, government investigations, regulatory inquiries, and enforcement matters in the United States and internationally. Provide risk-based legal advice, develop litigation strategies, manage government submissions and regulator interactions, and oversee outside counsel, experts, and service providers. Apply technology, analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve legal workflows and outcomes.

Serve as strategic commercial and technology legal advisor, drafting and negotiating software, SaaS, licensing, data, customer, and vendor agreements. Advise on AI products, governance, responsible AI, privacy, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, product launches, and legal risk mitigation. Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and executive teams while supporting international and broader legal initiatives. Use legal technology and AI tools to improve legal service delivery.

Own third-party and vendor contracting, AI-assisted contract review, escalated disputes and regulatory inquiries, corporate insurance administration, and other corporate risk matters. Partner with Procurement, Finance, Customer Experience, and Communications in a fast-growing healthcare technology company. Translate legal risks into actionable guidance, manage complex processes, and resolve sensitive matters with sound judgment and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Serves as embedded product counsel for Product, Engineering, and Design teams from product scoping through launch. Advises on healthcare regulations, privacy, data use, AI features, intellectual property, customer-facing disclosures, contracts, and compliance architecture. Builds scalable legal processes including launch checklists, playbooks, review standards, self-service guidance, and training. Requires strong judgment on unsettled regulatory issues, cross-functional communication, and experience supporting regulated consumer products in high-growth environments.

Provides strategic U.S. employment law advice to People teams and business stakeholders; oversees workplace investigations, employment claims, litigation, agreements, policies, federal contractor compliance, AI-related employment issues, training, and legal updates. Requires at least five years of employment law experience, a JD, active U.S. state bar membership, and knowledge of major federal and state employment laws.

Provides legal and regulatory guidance focused on mortgage origination, researches federal and state requirements, supports regulatory change implementation, prepares legal analyses, advises on compliance matters, translates regulations into business and system requirements, and supervises a junior attorney. The role addresses rescission requests, post-closing compliance, loan transaction reviews, remediation, and regulatory risk for mortgage lending operations.

Manages complex contract and commercial surety claims across multiple jurisdictions, including claim adjustment, reserves, litigation coordination, outside counsel management, and reporting. Supports underwriting with bond, indemnity, and collateral agreements; researches legal developments; and develops training and legal resources for underwriting and company staff.

Associate General Counsel supporting commercial contracts, partnerships, joint ventures, regulatory compliance, real estate and mortgage business expansion, product development, data privacy, information security, and relationships with regulators and outside counsel. The role partners with executive, product, engineering, and business teams to manage legal risk, expand into new jurisdictions, and support financings and M&A transactions.

Own and mature the company’s intellectual property strategy across patents, trade secrets, software, data, trademarks, licensing, and open-source compliance. Manage IP portfolios, invention processes, agreements, employee IP obligations, and government data-rights matters. Advise technical and business teams on ownership, licensing, export controls, and risk. Support broader corporate legal work, including commercial contracts, transactions, financing, and legal-process improvements.

Owns drafting and negotiation of AI, data, privacy, security, IP, and commercial contract terms for healthcare technology deals. Advises Sales, Client Success, product, and engineering on data rights, model training, PHI, HIPAA, licensing, and regulatory requirements. Negotiates customer, vendor, partner, SaaS, reseller, government subcontract, and technology agreements; manages deals through signature; maintains templates and playbooks; and escalates nonstandard privacy, compliance, and risk positions.

Provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal counsel to early-stage startups across formation, fundraising, governance, employment, commercial contracts, and compliance. Draft, review, and negotiate key documents, coordinate immigration matters with external counsel, act as ongoing outside counsel, and build trusted founder relationships while collaborating with cross-functional experts.

Assistant General Counsel responsible for managing litigation, disputes, arbitrations, investigations, and prelitigation matters for GuideWell and its affiliates. The role manages outside counsel, develops legal strategies, advises business leaders, drafts and reviews legal documents, serves as an external legal contact, and manages complex matters with minimal supervision.

Senior legal executive leading institutional bank partnerships, complex commercial and program agreements, consumer lending regulatory strategy, data protection, intellectual property, and AI underwriting compliance. The role advises executive and cross-functional teams, manages bank due diligence and risk requirements, and translates legal and regulatory considerations into scalable business strategies.

Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, support product and regulatory matters, research laws, assist with licensing and disputes, maintain corporate records, and improve legal processes using AI and technology. The role partners closely with business teams in a fast-paced fintech startup and offers broad exposure to contracts, compliance, governance, litigation, and financial services.

Provides strategic employment-law guidance across the employee lifecycle for a distributed, multi-jurisdictional workforce. Advises leaders on employee relations, investigations, accommodations, compensation, classification, restrictive covenants, and separations; drafts policies and agreements; oversees claims, audits, and litigation; monitors legal developments; manages outside counsel; and supports workforce programs and cross-functional legal initiatives.

Provide strategic IP counsel for M&A, divestitures and investments: lead IP due diligence, assess IP portfolios and risks, draft and negotiate IP provisions, advise senior leaders and deal teams, and manage cross‑functional transaction workstreams to meet objectives within budget and timeline.

Manage disputes, pre-litigation matters, subpoenas, document collection, discovery, litigation holds, and preservation. Conduct legal research, draft correspondence and memoranda, support risk management, revise firm policies, prepare training materials, and collaborate with internal teams and outside counsel. The role requires a licensed attorney with 3–6 years of law firm litigation experience and may be full-time or part-time with hybrid flexibility.

Contracts Counsel will review and negotiate vendor and partner agreements, draft independent contractor and real estate transaction documents, and provide legal and regulatory guidance for brokerage, mortgage, and title operations. The role supports audits, marketing compliance, risk mitigation, and technology implementations while partnering with legal, operations, and product teams. Responsibilities also include advising on regulatory matters and managing assigned projects.

Leads global legal support for Nokia’s intellectual property monetization, including patent transactions, licensing, M&A, and strategic initiatives. Provides specialist legal advice to partnering, licensing, strategy, patenting, and commercial teams; develops governance and compliance processes; mitigates risks; improves operational efficiency; and trains internal stakeholders. The role requires cross-functional coordination, practical IP law expertise, and support for strategic execution.