Senior Product Counsel

The role

You will advise product, engineering, supply chain, and marketing teams on legal aspects of product development, marketing, and compliance. You will also design compliance programs and provide risk mitigation strategies for product offerings.

What you will do

• Advise product, engineering, supply chain, and marketing teams on legal aspects of product offerings
• Advise company leadership about legal issues involving product offerings
• Help design and implement compliance programs
• Provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions
• Simplify and distill complex legal frameworks into guidance
• Uplevel product launch process and protocols
• Serve as a subject matter expert on product-related regulatory issues
• Support systematic documentation of compliance with import/export and government procurement laws
• Develop global internal controls, risk monitoring, and audit frameworks
• Monitor new and emerging developments in worldwide regulations and laws

Required qualifications

• J.D. degree from an ABA-approved law school or equivalent
• Member of at least one state bar association in good standing
• 6+ years of legal experience comprising a combination of regulatory, IP, product counseling, marketing, and general transactional work
• Experience advising multinational, complex fast-growing global companies
• Experience developing and implementing compliance programs and policies for hardware and software products, including alarms products
• Expertise in one or more of the following: Federal procurement requirements for hardware and software (e.g. FedRAMP, FIPs, NDAA); licensing and regulatory compliance for alarm products, including fire
• Excellent legal and business judgment
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and meet deadlines

Nice to have

• At least 2 years of in house experience
• Experience with both hardware and software product offerings

Benefits

• Healthcare programs with 100% employee premiums covered under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Before you apply

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S.
• Verkada is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role

About the company

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform. The company has more than 30,000 customers and a $5.8B valuation.