Product Counsel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Provide legal advice to Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams regarding legal matters throughout the product development lifecycle.

• Evaluate and analyze new products, features, and initiatives, delivering timely, business-focused legal guidance that balances risk management with innovation and execution speed.

• Advise teams on intellectual property, software licensing, privacy, AI, security, and regulatory factors impacting company products.

• Create scalable legal guidance, policies, playbooks, and training resources that empower teams to make well-informed decisions.

• Collaborate with commercial, privacy, security, compliance, and corporate legal colleagues to address cross-functional legal challenges and promote alignment.

• Keep abreast of emerging legal, regulatory, and industry trends and translate them into actionable advice.

• Carry out other related duties and responsibilities as required or assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

• 4-7 years of pertinent legal experience advising SaaS companies.

• Provide high-quality legal analysis, with strong attention to detail and execution across a wide range of product counseling issues.

• Exceptional communication skills (both oral and written) with the capacity to clearly articulate and justify risk analysis and convey complex concepts effectively to technical, business, legal, and executive audiences.

• Function effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments while balancing competing priorities and business goals to achieve results.

• Innovative mindset with the ability to identify solutions where others may see obstacles.

• Experience advising software, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools companies on open-source software licensing, compliance, and governance is a plus.

• Familiarity with AI tools (such as Claude or similar) to enhance legal workflow efficiency.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-funded medical insurance.

• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), in addition to paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants*.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Company-sponsored virtual happy hours, complimentary food, and enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone stipend.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that provides personalized care and resources in areas such as therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their dependents.