Rackspace Us Inc.
Director, Legal — AI/GPU Commercial
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About the role
- A senior commercial and transactional attorney who structures, negotiates, and closes complex commercial and product agreements for Rackspace's GPU-as-a-service, bare-metal, and broader AI infrastructure offerings.
- This role operates as an embedded subject-matter expert across RackLaw's sales, sourcing, privacy, and corporate development functions, providing GPU/AI/neocloud market fluency the department does not currently have in-house.
- The role is RackLaw's primary point of contact for legal issues distinctive to GPU compute, AI training and inference workloads, and the neocloud competitive landscape.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Chief Privacy Officer on privacy and data protection issues specific to AI training, inference, and customer data handling in GPU compute environments.
- Support M&A, strategic partnership, and investment activity involving AI/GPU infrastructure targets or counterparties, working directly with the VP & Deputy General Counsel on diligence, deal structuring, and integration.
Requirements
- active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, in good standing (required).
- 8+ years of post-bar experience in commercial/transactional practice, including substantial experience with technology, cloud, or data infrastructure transactions.
- Deep knowledge of commercial contracting for cloud and IaaS/SaaS transactions.
- Working knowledge of U.S. export control regimes applicable to advanced computing and semiconductor technology (EAR / BIS / RASA).
- Familiarity with data privacy and protection frameworks applicable to AI training and inference workloads.
- Ability to operate as a cross-functional subject-matter expert across multiple legal practice areas without direct management authority over those teams.
- ability to translate fast-moving, ambiguous business requirements into workable legal terms.
- independent judgment and ability to operate with minimal supervision.
Nice to have
- Prior in-house experience at a hyperscaler, neocloud/GPU cloud provider, semiconductor company, or AI infrastructure company.
- Experience with export control, data privacy, or M&A matters, in addition to core commercial/transactional strength.
- Experience negotiating equipment financing, lease, or offtake structures for infrastructure or hardware assets (e.g., master lease agreements, sale-leaseback, or off-balance sheet financing arrangements).
- General knowledge of M&A and strategic transaction structuring, including complex financing arrangements.
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets.
- About Rackspace Technology
- More on Rackspace Technology
- Though we're all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission.
Compensation
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets.
Company info
- About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts.
- And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe.
Visa & Work Authorization
- vise on the evolving legal and regulatory landscape affecting AI infrastructure and advanced computing items, including export control policy (EAR requirements, end user/end-use screening, deemed export issues, RASA and
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