Senior Product Counsel
Senior Product Counsel
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Job Description
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Databricks is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to help the Databricks legal team provide cutting-edge practical legal advice to Databricks engineering and product management teams as we navigate rapidly evolving global laws and regulations in big data including data privacy data protection and AI. This role will report to the Assistant General Counsel Product.
The 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. You know when to say yes no unless and no but you also know when to escalate concerns.
- Contribute to the development of 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 arent 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 help further the status of the legal department as an effective respected and valued resource within the company.
What we look for:
- Minimum 5 to 7 years relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (a combination of both is a plus) with minimum of 2 years focused experience in product privacy AI and/or IP law
- 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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
