Product Counsel

Available Locations: Austin TX Washington D.C. San Francisco CA

About this job

Cloudflare is seeking a lawyer with a passion for new technologies to join the Product Counsel team. The Product Counsel team serves as the frontline legal contact and helps solve some of the companys thorniest issues. As a member of the team youll wear many hats and lead cross-functional projects with meaningful impact. The ideal candidate brings deep enthusiasm for innovative technology and the ability to collaborate closely with product engineering and business teams throughout the software development and commercialization lifecycle.

This role requires drafting and negotiating the technology transactions that fuel our products such as our AI inference offerings. Through this work you will help evaluate novel legal questions and craft practical solutions at the frontier of law and technology.

As a member of the Product Counsel team you will also support privacy-by-design reviews document data flows for responsible AI counseling and partner with the commercial legal team to address complex customer inquiries.

In this role you will:

• Translate complex legal analysis into clear actionable guidance for fast-moving product and engineering teams.
• Proactively assess legal risks and advise product engineering and business teams building services that reshape how information moves across the Internetand the laws that govern it.
• Review and architect legal frameworks for technology transactions related agreements such as technology partner agreements inbound IP licensing agreements and marketplace arrangements for Cloudflares developer platform.
• Review marketing event agreements and support Cloudflares team with promotions and sweepstakes.
• Draft terms of service disclosures policies and related processes.
• Apply privacy-by-design principles and partner with the privacy team on data-flow reviews PIAs and other privacy deliverables.
• Solicit invention disclosures support patent strategy and protect Cloudflares trade secrets.
• Partner with product and marketing teams on product marketing collateral and claim substantiation.
• Build and refine processes that enable the Legal team to scale effectively as Cloudflare continues to expand.
• Engage externally on behalf of Cloudflare in areas where you are a subject matter expert.

Job qualifications

• • JD degree with strong academic credentials and admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 3 years of law firm and/or in-house experience preferably with technology companies. Prior experience with Internet security and infrastructure companies is desired.
  • Technical background / expertise is highly desired. While a science or technical degree is not a prerequisite for this job a passion for technologies is.
  • Experience with copyright law and Internet law is desired (e.g. AI Act Data Act net neutrality DMCA CFAA).
  • Strong communication skills and cooperative team player. Lead with empathy and understanding while embracing diverse points of view. Flexibility to adapt and thrive in a fast paced environment.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with lawyers and non-lawyers to establish effective solutions efficiently and in an amenable manner.
  • Ability to organize prioritize and manage many tasks on complex projects. Experience with Jira or other project management solutions is desired.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $158000 - $217000
• For D.C. Area based hired: Estimated annual salary of $150000 - $207000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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