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Your expertise will help guide our business teams through legal challenges and opportunities in a dynamic Ad Tech environment. \nThis role offers a rare combination of opportunities: use AI and legal operations best practices to scale and improve an established, high-volume commercial contracting practice on our sell-side business, including streamlining workflows and improving templates and playbooks, while helping build new legal processes from the ground up as PubMatic expands into demand-side and full-stack ad tech offerings. You'll work on emerging legal issues in a company at the forefront of applying AI, including agentic AI, across the advertising supply chain. 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