Senior Legal Counsel
FuriosaAIAI Accelerators company
Seoul, South KoreaSenior
Industrial Bank of Korea
Keistone Partners
Korea Development Bank
PI Partners
Kakao Investment
DSC Investment
Legal & Compliance
About the role
TL;DR
Build and lead FuriosaAI's global legal organization.
- •As FuriosaAI's first in-house legal representative, you will build the legal foundation of one of the world's leading AI infrastructure companies.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead legal support for global commercial transactions, including customer and supplier agreements, strategic partnerships, OEM and channel relationships, cloud service providers, AI infrastructure deployments, licensing arrangements, and technology collaborations.
- •Establish a legal organization roadmap aligned with business growth, and build a world-class, global legal team, and optimize legal processes, providing consistent oversight across development, foundry outsourcing, and global distribution and sales contracts.
- •Proactively identify potential legal risks across the global business while effectively managing disputes when necessary.
- •Advise the business on export controls, sanctions, national security regulations, technology transfer, AI-related regulations, national core technology regulations, and other legal frameworks affecting global AI infrastructure companies.
- •Lead legal execution for private financings, strategic investments, joint ventures, M&A, and IPO readiness, partnering closely with finance, investor relations, and external counsel.
- •Requirements Qualified lawyer in Korea or another major jurisdiction with more than 10 years of professional experience, with the ability to practice effectively in Korea.
- •Combined background in a top-tier law firm and in-house legal leadership at a global tech or manufacturing company.
- •Proven experience building legal systems and leading teams from the ground up in environments without established legal processes, contributing directly to business outcomes.
- •Strong grasp of business priorities and goals, with the ability to propose solutions aligned with business growth.
- •Fluent, bilingual-level business English.
Required skills
Contract ManagementRisk ManagementCompliance ManagementM&A
Domain expertise
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