Sr. Corporate Counsel, Product and Compliance

Overview

This role involves serving as Product and Compliance Counsel for a portfolio of software products. The position provides practical, risk-calibrated legal guidance to Product and Engineering teams across product development, AI governance, privacy, security, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance—supporting responsible innovation and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Act as embedded product and compliance counsel, partnering with Product and Engineering teams early in development (roadmap, design, and testing) to identify legal, regulatory, privacy, IP, and customer trust considerations before they become launch blockers. Provide practical, risk-calibrated recommendations to support clear paths forward.
• Create and run legal and compliance review processes for software products and AI features, ensuring privacy, security, regulatory, intellectual property, and customer trust are addressed throughout the product lifecycle.
• Translate evolving AI, privacy, consumer protection, IP, and regulatory requirements into product criteria, required third-party certifications, and monitoring obligations.
• Advise Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders on global trade and export control compliance requirements, including sanctions and export classification, and translate legal requirements into practical product and operational guidance.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and leadership to identify, evaluate, and protect innovations through patents and other intellectual property rights. Liaise with outside counsel and help shape and scale the patent and invention disclosure program.
• Serve as a senior advisor on privacy-sensitive product design, including data use, retention and deletion, cross-border data flows, data protection agreements, security commitments, and privacy documentation.
• Advise cross-functional stakeholders during security incidents, audits, customer escalations, and compliance reviews to assess legal and operational risks and align product behavior with contractual and regulatory commitments.
• Advise on copyright, trademark, patent, open-source, licensing, data rights, and other IP issues arising from software development and AI systems.
• Support customer-facing and commercial matters when product, AI, regulatory, privacy, data, IP, or security questions affect a deal, renewal, expansion, or strategic partnership.
• Participate in selected customer and prospect conversations as a subject matter expert.
• Draft, review, and negotiate customer, partner, and vendor agreements, especially where product, AI, privacy, security, intellectual property, or compliance issues are involved.
• Collaborate closely with a small, agile global legal team to provide coordinated, practical support across the business.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership, with substantial legal experience spanning a leading law firm and high-growth technology company.
• 8+ years of legal experience preferred, with at least 5 years in-house.
• Deep experience in at least one of the following: software licensing, security, or privacy/data protection.
• Familiarity with export control, sanctions, and trade compliance considerations relevant to global software products, cloud services, and international product distribution.
• Experience advising on intellectual property strategy, including patents, invention disclosure programs, open-source software, licensing, trademarks, copyrights, and technology commercialization.
• Demonstrated ability to advise on complex, ambiguous matters involving product design, data, emerging AI legislation, intellectual property, security, open source software, and practical commercial risk.
• Experience building or improving scalable legal programs, including governance frameworks, review processes, playbooks, templates, decision tools, training, or knowledge systems.
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory complexity into clear, practical guidance.
• Consistently strong judgment to balance legal risk, customer trust, product usability, delivery timelines, and company goals; identify difficult decisions; and escalate appropriately.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solid technical understanding of software licensing, open source software, AI, and the ability to think critically with business context to find practical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience preferred with at least 5 of those in-house.

Compensation & Benefits

• Fully remote workspace.
• Hours are flexible.

Location

• US (remote).