About the Role

Our client, a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, and data observability, is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to join their elite, business-focused legal team. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, Product and IP, this role is ideal for an early member of a fast-growing, mission-driven private cloud company.

Responsibilities

Product Lifecycle Support: Partner with product and engineering teams, providing legal counsel throughout the full product lifecycle, from initial development to launch and beyond.
Privacy by Design: Integrate privacy-by-design principles into product development processes.
Scalable Practices: Help shape the legal function's approach to responsible development at scale, with a focus on AI/ML, data privacy, IP, and open-source issues.
Advisory Role: Act as a solutions-oriented advisor and business enabler, maintaining high standards for legal practice and business ethics in a rapidly expanding company.
Commercial Agreements: Advise on, draft, and review technology licensing and integration partnership agreements with strategic partners.
Brand Protection: Advise on trademark and brand protection matters.
M&A Support: Support integration activities arising from acquisitions.
Incident Response: Partner with Security and Privacy teams on incident response.

Qualifications

Law degree and admission to practice in at least one U.S. state, with permission to practice in your state of residence.
4 to 8 years of legal experience, combining time at a "Big Law" firm and in-house at a tech company.
Strong Product Counseling Experience: Demonstrated expertise in advising on product development.
Technical Legal Knowledge: Solid understanding of AI/ML issues, data privacy (GDPR, CCPA), open-source licensing, and intellectual property.
Essential Skills: Excellent judgment, business orientation, strong communication and collaboration skills, comfort working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, innate curiosity, detail-orientation, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Experience

Experience at a SaaS company, particularly in databases, data infrastructure, or data platforms, is a plus.

Opportunity

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a fast-growing, highly valued emerging company and contribute to the development of core technology during a transformative era.

Compensation

Annual Base Salary: $250,000 - $275,000
Additional Compensation: Equity and generous benefits.
Total Compensation: Will vary based on candidate's seniority, relevant experience, and geographic location.

Solutus Legal Search is the retained representative for this search. Resumes submitted directly to the client will be forwarded to Solutus.

Ref. #957-SLS

Senior Product Counsel – Fully Remote (USA) (957-SLS)

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