Senior Counsel, Product & Privacy

The role

This person will own the product-facing legal function, including building a risk-tiered product review process and upgrading the privacy program. They will serve as the primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, and Security teams.

What you will do

• Build and run a risk-tiered legal review process for product features and releases.
• Serve as the primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, Security, and Support.
• Partner with Product and Sales to develop customer-facing materials.
• Advise on how products collect, process, and access data.
• Review inbound and outbound open-source use in the product.
• Counsel on AI governance in product development and business operations.
• Partner with Product and Supply Chain teams on export classification and screening.
• Build and own WEKA's privacy program and framework.
• Update privacy notices, policies, and standardize the DPA.
• Manage outside counsel and vendors.

Required qualifications

• 6–9 years of legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or both.
• Meaningful experience counseling product and engineering teams at a technology company.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering on launches.
• Working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
• Experience negotiating DPAs and responding to customer security and privacy diligence.
• Experience managing external counsel and vendors.
• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in good standing.

Nice to have

• Prior in-house experience at a startup or scale-up where you built programs.
• Computer science or engineering background, or the ability to read architecture diagrams.
• CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or a similar privacy or AI governance certification, or a desire to obtain one.
• Experience in enterprise software, infrastructure, data storage, cloud, HPC, or AI.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits and security incident response.
• Familiarity with open-source licensing, export controls, and the EU AI Act.
• Commercial contracting experience.

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• 401(K)
• Flexible Time off (FTO)
• sick time
• leave of absence as per the FMLA and other relevant leave laws

Before you apply

• USA Residents Only

About the company

WEKA is a growth-stage company that transforms how organizations build, run, and scale AI and accelerated compute workflows with NeuralMesh. Their technology is trusted by more than 30% of Fortune 50 enterprises.