Internal Legal Counsel

ThisWay Global

Internal Legal Counsel for AI-first technology company building legal functions and partnerships. Work as a strategic partner to executives while navigating legal, compliance, and risk across sectors.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team; participate in strategic planning, deal structuring, and business development conversations.
Provide practical legal guidance across commercial, operational, and organizational matters; support leadership in balancing risk, speed, and business objectives.
Help build scalable legal and governance processes as the organization grows.
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of commercial contracts, including enterprise SaaS agreements, data center services agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, subcontractor agreements, and custom deal structures.
Identify legal and operational risks within complex commercial relationships.
Support evolving partnerships across AI, infrastructure, software, and public-sector initiatives.
Support and lead legal work on ground leases, commercial leases, land acquisition, title review, easements, and real estate transactions tied to data center site development, including our RELLIS campus work.
Navigate university, state entity, and government procurement frameworks; structure deals that satisfy both institutional requirements and business objectives.
Advise on employment-related matters, internal policies, and organizational risk.
Support ISO-aligned operational and compliance initiatives.
Partner with leadership on governance, documentation, and internal controls.
Build and maintain our compliance posture across data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA awareness), AI and technology regulation, and employment law; flag risks before they become problems.
Help evaluate legal and compliance implications of AI and software deployments; coordinate with technical and operational teams on evolving risk areas.
Establish scalable legal processes, document templates, external counsel relationships, and internal policies; build the function from scratch.
Understand our products well enough to translate AI, data center, and cloud infrastructure concepts into precise legal language.
Help shape a proactive approach to enterprise risk management; identify areas where legal structure, process, or policy can reduce operational exposure.
Contribute to the organization's long-term maturity as legal and compliance needs evolve.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Texas Bar License; must be licensed and in good standing to practice law in Texas.
Texas Residency; must be based in Texas (role is remote-first, but Texas presence is required). Some travel to data center sites and university campuses is expected.
5–8 years of experience in a combination of law firm and/or in-house legal roles.
Demonstrated ability to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements independently, including enterprise SaaS agreements, services agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs.
Experience with ground leases, commercial leases, land acquisition, title review, easements, or comparable real estate transactions.
Experience working with State of Texas agencies, higher education institutions, or regulated/public-sector environments, including university, public entity, or government contract frameworks.
Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA frameworks; ability to advise on AI/technology regulatory matters and basic employment law.
Ability to understand AI, data center, and cloud infrastructure well enough to engage meaningfully with engineering and operations teams and translate concepts into legal language.
Understanding of data privacy, PII, and security-related legal considerations; ability to coordinate on operational safeguards.
Ability to operate independently without a legal team beneath you at the start.
Comfortable operating in evolving environments where structure is still being built and able to provide clear, actionable guidance without creating unnecessary operational friction.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Direct access to the CEO and executive team.
Opportunity to build and define the company's legal function, including processes, templates, outside counsel relationships, and legal infrastructure.
Competitive compensation.
Meaningful equity in a company positioned at the center of the AI infrastructure buildout.
Opportunity to work on active NVIDIA NVL72/GB300 GPU cluster deployments, TAMU RELLIS ground lease execution, and enterprise and institutional partnerships.
Exposure to technically sophisticated work spanning AI infrastructure, data centers, software, and public-sector partnerships.
Remote-first work environment.

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Hard Skills & Tools

commercial contractsenterprise SaaS agreementsdata center services agreementsvendor contractsNDAssubcontractor agreementsground leasesland acquisitiontitle revieweasements

Soft Skills

strategic planningrisk managementnegotiationindependent operationclear communicationactionable guidanceadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingleadership

Certifications

Texas Bar License