Legal Counsel, Product

Overview

This role involves serving as Legal Counsel for product teams, providing legal guidance to product, engineering, and marketing groups involved in building and shipping software products and services. The position focuses on managing legal risks while enabling teams to move quickly and confidently in a globally distributed, asynchronous environment.

Responsibilities

• Advise product and engineering teams on legal issues throughout the product development lifecycle, identifying risks early and recommending practical solutions.
• Provide legal support for AI-related product development, including data retention, vendor agreements, acceptable use policies, opt-in flows, and customer-facing AI documentation.
• Collaborate with procurement legal teams on vendor and product-related contracts, including AI model vendor contracts and partnership terms.
• Support commercial legal teams with product and intellectual property guidance during customer negotiations and maintain field enablement materials as features evolve.
• Counsel on open source licensing matters, assessing license obligations for new dependencies and advising on upstream license changes affecting software development and distribution.
• Draft, maintain, and improve legal templates, internal policies, and playbooks to enable consistent decision-making.
• Review product marketing materials for accuracy and advise on advertising, trademark, and brand issues to ensure product claims are defensible and aligned with feature functionality.
• Monitor changes in laws and emerging legal risks, especially related to AI regulation, and propose process improvements to support responsible product shipping and marketing.

Requirements

• JD, LLB, or equivalent law degree and admission to a state bar or analogous governing body.
• Experience advising product and engineering teams on legal matters across the software development lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of open source licensing concepts as they apply to software development and distribution.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and improving commercial agreements, templates, and internal policies with practical, scalable guidance.
• Sufficient understanding of privacy frameworks to identify issues and collaborate effectively with privacy teams.
• Familiarity with legal issues related to AI product development and emerging AI regulations, with a willingness to develop expertise as regulations and products evolve.
• Strong communication skills to engage with technical and business stakeholders clearly and effectively.
• Ability to work efficiently in a remote, globally distributed, asynchronous environment.
• Comfort with technology, quick learning of new tools, and improving workflows through documentation and process enhancements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a remote legal team supporting product, engineering, and marketing.
• Background in managing legal risks related to AI and open source software.
• Proven ability to create and maintain legal playbooks and templates that scale across teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• United States base salary range: $100,800 to $216,000 USD (varies by location, experience, and qualifications).
• Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plans.
• Growth and development fund.
• Parental leave.
• Home office support.

Location

• This is a fully remote position.
• Candidates may be subject to location-based eligibility requirements depending on country.

Candidates with varying levels of experience are encouraged to apply. The employer is an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, committed to non-discrimination and providing accommodations during the recruitment process.