Sarah Ward
Senior Corporate Counsel - Azure AI Speech & Language Services
- Role
- Senior Corporate Counsel - Azure Ai Speech & Language Services, Ai Platform at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sarah Ward
Business-minded, adaptable legal advisor and tech transactions lawyer with diverse in-house and law firm experience. Team player with proven ability to develop trusted relationships with technical and non-technical clients at all levels. Strategic, motivating leader and manager with experience restructuring teams for success and leading outstanding operations professionals. Passionate about helping improve lives, stabilize the climate, and strengthen democracy with practical tools and solutions.
Experience
Senior Corporate Counsel - Azure Ai Speech & Language Services, Ai Platform
Apr 2023 — Present
Lead product counsel for the Azure AI Speech and Language engineering teams responsible for developing AI-powered text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speaker recognition, translation, and related platform enterprise services. Lead counsel for the AI Frameworks engineering team, which optimizes AI model performance on a wide range of chipsets. Also support the Azure AI UX design and research teams.Partner with client teams throughout the product development, release, support, and retirement lifecycle, advising on broad range of issues from IP to biometric data privacy to antitrust. Collaborate with business stakeholders in product, Responsible AI, communications, marketing, and other groups across the company to identify and minimize legal risks while taking long-term engineering, reputational, ethical, and revenue goals into account. Partner closely with subject matter experts in privacy, patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, and Responsible AI groups to develop durable recommendations that address the full range of legal and ethical considerations that come into play throughout the product development lifecycle. Lead deal support for transactions funded by the product team, focusing primarily on complex IP deals, often with marketing, revenue sharing, or other components.
Education
Oberlin College
B.A., Politics
1998 — 2002
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
J.D., Law
2003 — 2006
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