Senior Corporate Counsel, Product

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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DigitalOcean

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Cloud Computing

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that offers a suite of products and services for developers to build, deploy, and scale applications. Their platform provides comprehensive tutorials, reference material, and support documentation to assist users in managing resources effectively using their API and CLI tools. With features like Droplets (virtual machines), managed databases, Kubernetes, and a marketplace for third-party applications, DigitalOcean focuses on simplicity and performance. They cater to both individual developers and larger organizations looking for cloud solutions that are easy to implement and manage.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted partner and a primary point of contact for DigitalOcean’s technical and non-technical teams, including Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations. • Conduct comprehensive assessments of legal risks in product development, including addressing privacy, regulatory, licensing, and intellectual property concerns, to support the product lifecycle from design and definition to global launch and post-release iteration. • Identify, assess, and drive resolution of legal issues related to customer data, privacy, security, export control, open-source software, and responsible AI. • Help shape the long-term strategy, structure, and priorities of the product counsel function. • Advise on US and global privacy laws (such as CCPA and GDPR) and emerging AI regulations to ensure that DigitalOcean and its affiliates maintain strict global compliance. • Support the drafting and negotiation of complex commercial agreements and data protection agreements to seamlessly facilitate product launches and safeguard corporate interests, including vendor agreements, technology partnership agreements, terms of service, product specific terms, privacy policies, and acceptable use policies. • Support legal strategy for critical incident response and regulatory investigations, partnering with Security, Privacy, and Communications teams. • Co-develop scalable self-service legal playbooks, templates, and automated workflows to empower Engineering and Product teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state. • 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house experience supporting SaaS, PaaS, and/or IaaS product development teams. • A track record of counseling AI product and engineering teams across the product development lifecycle, from design and definition through global launch and post-release iteration. • A low-ego, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small, a desire to learn, an appetite for feedback, and a 'leave it better than you found it' growth mindset. • Proven experience in using strong business judgement to calibrate business and legal risk, and translating complex legal advice into actionable guidance for Product, Engineering, and Operations teams. • A strong understanding of US and global privacy regulations, intellectual property, open-source software, artificial intelligence, and data security. • Experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements. • Superlative communication and collaborative problem-solving skills with the ability to build positive, influential relationships with cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. • All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development. • Flexible time off policy. • Employee Assistance Program. • Local Employee Meetups. • Bonus potential based on company and individual performance. • Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.