Description:

A Software Company is looking for Product Counsel to provide a key business support role on the Legal & Compliance Team. In this role, you will work with our Product team and related business teams to support product and engineering groups.

In this role, you'll get to:

Provide first-line support to our product and engineering teams as well as related business teams. This includes supporting a range of product development, licensing, SaaS and other technology agreements, and counseling on compliance, privacy and security by design, and other development best practices
Assist in developing overall strategy for the product legal practice area, focusing on strategic product changes and features
Work with a strong team of legal professionals to help guide our rapidly growing product and engineering teams
Work closely with product and engineering leadership to develop guidance and resources for more consistent and scalable legal support
Collaborate with other business and legal teams including Privacy, Security, Compliance, Vendor Management, Commercial Transactions, Risk, Finance, Marketing/GTM, Strategic Partnerships, and others to align guidance and evaluate risks and opportunities

We are looking for people who:

Are qualified to practice law in a US state, Ireland or the UK
Ideally have 2-4 years of post-qualification experience in an in-house product focused role in a technology company
Have experience with review of technology contracts and feel comfortable running an independent negotiation process (preferably in-house at a technology company)
Are able to handle a broad range of strategic matters and work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced, and transparent environment
Are able to make decisions and provide advice/explain the rationale for the decision to a curious and empowered team
Develop strong, trust based relationships with both legal and cross functional teams
Effectively prioritize tasks and balance competing priorities
Possess strong communication skills, especially via an internal wiki, Slack and Zoom (it's how we communicate)
Have superior organizational skills and can project manage
Want to learn quickly
Have fluency in English
Are passionate about the values in the A Software Company Culture Code