Sr. Counsel, Product

Impact You Will Have

• Demonstrate expertise in product counseling, data protection laws, marketing, and technology transactions, as well as the capacity to be a generalist and learn new areas of law and legal skills quickly.
• Exercise keen business and legal judgment. Know when to say “yes”, “no, unless …”, and “no”, but also know when to escalate concerns.
• Contribute to developing processes to improve our product counseling function.
• Provide end-to-end product counseling - from ideation to end of life.
• Partner with teams across Databricks and close external partners that are building, deploying, and operating technology for external and internal users.
• Work cross-functionally with the commercialization, product marketing, marketing, and communications teams to bring our transformative offerings to market.
• Collaborate with other legal leaders in commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs with respect to product issues.
• Deeply understand product and data risk issues to be able to hear and answer questions that aren’t asked and translate technical and security concerns into answers understandable to non-technical lawyers.
• Assist your product stakeholders in developing process improvements.
• Draft and update form agreements regarding products and services, and negotiate product and security-related changes to customer contracts, including those in DPAs and BAAs.
• Provide general legal support on a flexible, as-needed basis with respect to other areas of the business.
• Work with potential vendors to understand data flows to determine privacy and data protection risk, and coordinate with the privacy legal team as appropriate.
• Advise on cybersecurity issues as a member of incident response teams.
• Contribute as a team player to further the legal department's reputation as an effective, respected, and valued resource within the company.

What We Look For

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (a combination of both is a plus), with a minimum of 2 years focused experience in product, privacy, and/or IP law.
• Experience with AI, FedRAMP requirements, or payments a plus.
• Experience working for a company offering platform services to business customers is a plus.
• Deep understanding of cloud and software technology, and a strong desire to work on legal issues in these areas.
• Technical background -- either an engineering or hard science academic background, demonstrated ability to acquire deep product understanding, or significant life experience as a general technology nerd.
• State bar membership required.
• Ability to prioritize and manage time, and client expectations, in the face of competing demands, often without direct guidance as we scale our rapidly expanding business.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams.
• Ability to exercise good judgment in raising issues and when collaborating with others.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.