IP/Product Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Own and grow Chainguard's international IP portfolio. • Lead IP enforcement efforts, including cease-and-desist actions involving customers or competitors who violate licensing terms. • Serve as a go-to legal resource for open source licensing questions from engineering. • Advise product teams on licensing, IP, and terms of service considerations across concurrent product and feature launches. • Draft and review product terms and terms of service for new launches. • Advise on licensing considerations in partner and joint development agreements. • Partner with product and engineering teams early in development to identify and address legal considerations before launch. • Build scalable IP processes, templates, and resources as the function grows.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of legal experience with a strong foundation in IP law, including trademark and copyright. • Patent experience is a plus. • Strong knowledge of open source licensing, including permissive, copyleft, and non-standard licenses. • Experience advising on product launches, product roadmaps, product terms, or terms of service is a plus, but not required. • Strong IP experience can outweigh lighter product counsel experience. • Comfort working proactively to build and protect company IP and reactively when enforcement is required. • Individual contributor role with opportunity to grow into leading the function over time.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs. • Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. • Participation in secondary offerings. • 10 years to exercise stock options. • 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. • Flexible time off. • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.