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Legal Counsel, AI Product & Privacy

McGraw Hill

1 Positions

ID: 5910

Posted On 08/18/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Aspire to Grow

Could your creative thinking build the future? Our team at McGraw Hill makes a difference for learners and educators across the world.

We are currently seeking a Legal Counsel, AI Product & Privacy to join our team at McGraw Hill.

Your impact on the team:

McGraw Hill is seeking a highly motivated Legal Counsel, AI Product & Privacy to support and scale McGraw Hill’s expanding focus on AI use and AI-powered product development while contributing meaningfully to the company’s commercial operations and broader corporate legal initiatives. In this role, you will focus on counseling on AI product development with a focus on regulatory compliance and data privacy/protection. You will be a key driver in advancing McGraw Hill’s AI strategy by working on internal AI use, as well as use of AI relating to products and services we provide to our customers. This role will address complex legal matters including regulatory compliance, data privacy and security, ethical considerations, consumer protection, and intellectual property.

This role works remotely from your home office. Candidates must permanently reside within the United States to be considered for this role. Travel may be required a few times per year for in-person meetings.

What you will be doing:

+ Provide legal support for all AI-related initiatives for internal use and product development, including contract drafting, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

+ Assess risks associated with AI technology integrations in vendor and partnership agreements.

+ Review and negotiate vendor agreements, including DPAs, SCCs, and AI-specific addendums.

+ Work closely with the Data Ethics team to provide legal support to track and interpret AI and privacy legal developments, ensuring compliance with evolving laws and regulations.

+ Support all stages of AI feature development for products and services, including curation of benchmark data sets, guardrail creation and review, documentation, customer-facing disclosure, release planning, and post-release management.

+ Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, and business teams to integrate legal considerations into AI development and deployment processes.

+ Develop strategies for handling AI-related legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk.

+ Create and improve resources for guidance, processes, and policies for responsible AI development and governance to streamline AI use and releases.

+ Assist with other company commercial legal, privacy, and risk matters.

Required experience and skills:

+ Juris Doctor degree from an accredited US law school and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.

+ 5+ years of transactional experience at law-firm or in-house role working on technology and privacy issues.

+ Significant experience with legal topics related to AI/ML, including software development, data rights, generative content, and model transparency.

+ Extensive knowledge of technology transactions (especially AI, SaaS and software licensing), data privacy, and intellectual property.

+ Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

+ Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

+ Comfort working independently and remotely.

Preferred experience and skills:

+ Excitement and experience with using emerging technologies.

+ Familiarity with open source licensing.

+ Experience with data governance, information security, and U.S and international privacy and data protection laws (e.g., CCPA and other state laws, GDPR, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).

+ Strong project management skills, with ability to build sustainable programs and processes for scale and drive strategic, cross-functional initiatives to completion.

The approximate pay range for this position in the United States is between $165,000 - 185,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan is included as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits , depending on the position offered.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “ @mheducation.com ” email address, " @careers.mheducation.com " and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

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Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

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Company ID

695

Job REQ #

5910

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250818

End Date

20251009

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At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.

Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.

By partnering with educators around the globe, our learning engineers, content developers and pedagogical experts are developing increasingly open learning ecosystems that are proven to improve pass rates, elevate grades and increase engagement for each individual learner while improving outcomes for all.

Why? Because learning changes everything.

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