Senior Counsel, Product

Posting Open Date: May 28 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: August 1 2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Counsel Product

We are looking for a Senior Counsel to join our legal team. The role will focus on product counseling and legal guidance around artificial intelligence regulatory compliance data protection intellectual property and other emerging topics. This is a great opportunity for a thoughtful pragmatic and collaborative attorney with strong product and business instincts who wants to help shape innovative edge cloud technologies. We are seeking candidates who value working on a strong and diverse team and want to contribute to creating a welcoming inclusive and supportive environment. This position reports to the Assistant General Counsel leading the product regulatory and IP team and will be based out of one of our offices with a preference for San Francisco CA.

What Youll Do:

• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to provide end-to-end legal guidance on product and feature development leading specific product areas
• Monitor emerging technology regulations and industry trends affecting edge computing critical infrastructure AI and telecommunications and provide strategic guidance on relevant regulatory compliance and responsible data practices
• Develop and enhance legal team positions on global privacy data protection artificial intelligence and other legal frameworks (e.g. GDPR NIS2 DORA EU Data Act EU AI Act)
• Collaborate with and support commercial transactions including customer negotiations and vendor contracts as a subject matter expert on product regulatory and IP considerations
• Draft and maintain policies playbooks checklists FAQs and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement
• Support IP matters including open-source and IP portfolio management.
• Support security and customer incident management law enforcement requests and platform-abuse process and policy

What Were Looking For:

• JD from a respected institution and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• 8 years of legal experience with in-house experience advising on product and regulatory matters
• Experience advising product managers developers and engineers and supporting agile product development teams by providing clear actionable legal guidance in real time
• Knowledge of U.S. and global regulatory frameworks and their practical application in a fast-paced technology company
• Technology industry experience and familiarity with technical concepts such as APIs encryption LLMs and cloud architecture
• A pragmatic solution-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to own matters and prioritize manage and complete projects independently in a dynamic evolving environment
• A collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and values building relationships and improving process

Well be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Familiarity with intellectual property law (open-source experience is a bonus)

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco CA
• New York NY
• Denver CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $179670.00 to $253644.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as experience skills qualifications and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastlys equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision insurance. Family planning mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program Insurance (Life Disability and Accident) a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.