Sr. Counsel, Product

Overview

This role involves providing practical product counseling to support engineering and product management teams on rapidly evolving global laws and regulations related to big data, including data privacy, data protection, and AI. The position reports to the Assistant General Counsel, Product.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end product counseling from ideation through end of life.
• Deliver expert legal guidance across product counseling, data protection laws, marketing considerations, and technology transactions.
• Apply business and legal judgment to determine when to approve, approve with conditions, deny, or escalate concerns.
• Help develop and improve processes that strengthen the product counseling function.
• Partner across internal teams and with external partners building, deploying, and operating technology for internal and external users.
• Collaborate with commercialization, product marketing, marketing, and communications teams to support go-to-market efforts for product offerings.
• Work with legal leaders across commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs on product-related matters.
• Understand product and data risk deeply—anticipate questions not explicitly raised and translate technical and security concerns into clear guidance for non-technical legal stakeholders.
• Assist product stakeholders with process improvements.
• Draft and update form agreements for products and services, and negotiate product and security-related changes in customer contracts, including DPAs and BAAs.
• Provide general legal support on an as-needed, flexible basis for other business needs.
• Work with potential vendors to understand data flows to assess privacy and data protection risk, coordinating with the privacy legal team as appropriate.
• Advise on cybersecurity issues as a member of incident response teams.
• Contribute to the legal department’s effectiveness as a respected internal resource.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (combination of both is a plus), with a minimum of 2 years focused experience in product, privacy, and/or IP law.
• State bar membership required.
• Demonstrated deep understanding of cloud and software technology and strong interest in legal work in these areas.
• Technical background, such as:
  • an engineering or hard science academic background, or
  • demonstrated ability to acquire deep product understanding, or
  • significant life experience as a technology generalist.
• Ability to prioritize and manage time and client expectations amid competing demands, often with limited direct guidance as the business scales.
• Comfortable collaborating with distributed teams.
• Strong judgment in raising issues and collaborating with others.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI, FedRAMP requirements, or payments.
• Experience working for a company offering platform services to business customers.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range Transparency

The pay range(s) for this role represent the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages depend on factors including job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. The employer anticipates using the full width of the range.

The total compensation package may include eligibility for an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

• Zone 1 Pay Range: $244,200—$335,850 USD
• Zone 2 Pay Range: $219,800—$302,300 USD

Location

Not specified in the provided description.

Additional Information

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within the employer’s discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and the employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.