Director, Product Counsel

Overview

This role serves as the primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), and Information Security teams, focusing on AI infrastructure products and services. The position involves embedding legal judgment throughout the product lifecycle—from architecture and platform design to customer commitments and regulatory strategy—balancing innovation with legal and compliance risk management. This is a foundational role with opportunities to establish legal processes and capabilities that support rapid growth, with potential to lead a team over time.

Location: Remote, United States

Responsibilities

• Act as the dedicated legal advisor to Product and Engineering teams, participating in roadmap planning, design reviews, and product launch processes.
• Provide legal and regulatory guidance on GPU/LPU clusters, bare-metal and virtualized compute, cloud services, networking, storage, and managed AI platform offerings.
• Advise on privacy, data governance, data handling, cross-border data transfers, and data residency requirements.
• Collaborate with technical teams to identify and mitigate legal risks early in product development.
• Address AI-related legal issues including model training data, inference outputs, intellectual property, copyright, and liability allocation.
• Review new features, platform capabilities, and service offerings prior to launch for legal, regulatory, and compliance implications.
• Partner with commercial legal teams on complex customer and partner transactions such as cloud services, infrastructure, Hardware-as-a-Service (HWaaS), master services, data processing, and strategic partnerships.
• Develop and maintain standard agreements, terms of service, acceptable use policies, and legal frameworks supporting cloud and AI platform offerings.
• Provide counsel on global privacy, AI governance, and data protection laws including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, U.S. state privacy laws, and emerging AI regulations.
• Support Product Marketing, Sales, and Business Development with product launches, strategic initiatives, and customer-facing programs.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams on legal aspects related to FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks.
• Monitor and interpret emerging AI regulations and policies, translating them into actionable product and business guidance.
• Advise on export control regulations including EAR and ITAR as they relate to compute infrastructure, cloud services, and international customers.
• Provide guidance on open-source software licensing and compliance.
• Build scalable legal processes, playbooks, and self-service resources to enable rapid team operations while managing risk.
• Manage relationships and engagements with outside counsel as needed.
• Contribute to the evolution of the legal function and team growth.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant legal experience supporting technology products and commercial transactions.
• Proven experience advising Product, Engineering, and business teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Deep knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Experience supporting hyperscaler, cloud infrastructure, AI platform, or other highly technical technology businesses.
• Familiarity with AI governance, emerging AI regulatory frameworks, and legal issues related to AI model development and deployment.
• Experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial agreements and strategic technology partnerships.
• Working knowledge of export control regulations applicable to cloud infrastructure, compute services, and international operations.
• Experience advising on open-source software licensing and intellectual property matters.
• Ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical, business-focused guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong business judgment, clear communication skills, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable legal processes balancing growth with legal and regulatory risk.
• Comfortable operating with high ownership, autonomy, and cross-functional influence.

Compensation & Benefits

• Total cash salary range: $369,000 - $424,400 (inclusive of potential bonus value).
• Individual compensation is determined by geographic location, experience, skills, and internal standards.
• This range applies to candidates located in the United States; compensation for international candidates varies based on local market conditions.
• Quarterly bonus currently offered as an interim alternative to equity.
• Plans to introduce long-term incentive programs in the near future.
• Comprehensive benefits package provided.

Location & Eligibility

• This is a remote position based in the United States.
• Candidates must meet U.S. export control requirements and qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes (e.g., U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible for an applicable export license).