Databricks
Sr. Counsel, Product
Bellevue, Washington; Mountain View, California; New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Washington, D.C.. Posted 15 days ago
The role
The Senior Product Counsel provides legal advice to engineering and product management teams regarding big data, data privacy, data protection, and AI. This role involves end-to-end product counseling and partnering with cross-functional teams to bring offerings to market.
What you will do
- Provide end-to-end product counseling from ideation to end of life
- Partner with teams building, deploying, and operating technology
- Work cross-functionally with commercialization, product marketing, marketing, and communications teams
- Collaborate with legal leaders in commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs
- Translate technical and security concerns into answers for non-technical lawyers
- Assist product stakeholders in developing process improvements
- Draft and update form agreements regarding products and services
- Negotiate product and security-related changes to customer contracts, including DPAs and BAAs
- Work with potential vendors to determine privacy and data protection risk
- Advise on cybersecurity issues as a member of incident response teams
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house
- Minimum of 2 years focused experience in product, privacy, and/or IP law
- Deep understanding of cloud and software technology
- Technical background in engineering or hard science academic background, ability to acquire deep product understanding, or significant life experience as a general technology nerd
- State bar membership
- Ability to prioritize and manage time and client expectations without direct guidance
- Comfortable working with distributed teams
- Ability to exercise good judgment in raising issues and collaborating with others
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- A combination of top law firm and in-house experience
- Experience with AI, FedRAMP requirements, or payments
- Experience working for a company offering platform services to business customers
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
About the company
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.