[Hiring] Counsel – Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Governance @The Cigna Group

Role Description

The Cigna Group is seeking an attorney to join its Privacy & Innovation Governance team within Legal & Corporate Affairs. This attorney will provide legal counsel and support related to artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, with a focus on monitoring and interpreting evolving AI laws and regulations and conducting legal reviews of AI use cases.

Additional responsibilities include supporting the review and negotiation of AI-related contractual terms, as well as assisting intellectual property counsel with IP-related matters and enterprise initiatives.

The successful candidate will work closely with attorneys and professionals across various departments to help enable responsible innovation while identifying and managing legal and regulatory risk.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze emerging federal, state, and international laws, regulations, regulatory guidance, and enforcement developments relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated decision-making, and other emerging technologies.
• Assess new and proposed AI legal requirements and support the development of practical guidance regarding their impact on The Cigna Group’s businesses, operations, and AI governance framework.
• Maintain regulatory inventories, legal summaries, guidance, and other resources to support implementation of evolving AI requirements.
• Conduct legal reviews of proposed AI and machine-learning use cases, identify applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and advise on risks associated with the development, acquisition, deployment, and use of AI systems.
• Participate in enterprise AI governance processes and collaborate with Enterprise Model Governance and other stakeholders to provide legal guidance throughout the AI lifecycle.
• Review, draft, and negotiate AI and intellectual property related provisions in technology, vendor, data, licensing, and other commercial agreements.
• Support the development and maintenance of standard AI and IP contractual provisions, negotiation guidance, playbooks, and other resources to promote consistent treatment of AI and IP-related legal risks.
• Advise on the intersection of AI requirements with privacy and data protection laws and collaborate with other legal subject-matter experts.
• Support intellectual property counsel in reviewing and advising on employee intellectual property obligations and matters involving ownership, licensing, protection, and commercialization of intellectual property assets.
• Assist intellectual property counsel with enterprise IP initiatives, including identifying and addressing IP risks associated with AI and emerging technologies.
• Help develop, implement, and improve practical processes and workflows for AI use-case review and related IP legal support.
• Partner with colleagues across Privacy & Innovation Governance and other enterprise functions to translate evolving legal requirements into practical policies, standards, controls, and business guidance.
• Support the development and enhancement of enterprise policies, standards, training, and governance frameworks related to responsible AI and emerging technologies.
• Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that supports responsible innovation while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risk.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 3+ years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, government agency, or combination thereof.
• Experience with technology, privacy, data, commercial contracting, artificial intelligence, or related legal matters.
• Strong legal research and analytical skills, including the ability to monitor, interpret, and communicate the implications of new and evolving laws and regulations.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating technology, software, data, cloud, or vendor agreements.
• Ability to translate legal requirements into practical processes and workflows.
• Sound legal judgment, including the ability to identify material risks and recommend practical mitigations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, compliance professionals, governance teams, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a rapidly evolving area of law.

Requirements

• Experience or demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, automated decision-making, or emerging technology law.
• Familiarity with evolving U.S. and international legal and regulatory frameworks governing AI.
• Experience conducting legal or regulatory reviews of technology or AI use cases.
• Experience reviewing or negotiating contractual provisions addressing AI, data use, model training, intellectual property, or generative AI.
• Experience with intellectual property matters, such as ownership, licensing, confidentiality, protection of proprietary assets, or employee IP obligations.
• Experience developing or improving legal review processes, intake workflows, playbooks, templates, or other tools that improve consistency and efficiency.
• Experience with privacy and data protection laws and their application to AI and emerging technologies.
• Experience in healthcare, health insurance, pharmacy benefit management, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary legal, compliance, governance, risk, or technology teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive range of benefits focused on supporting whole health.
• Health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
• 401(k) plan.
• Company paid life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.
• Paid holidays and leaves of absence.