Description:
About the Team:Skydio builds flying robots that give people superpowers: every day, a Skydio drone saves a life alongside first responders, prevents a fire or mass power outage, or keeps our soldiers safe. The Legal team is a big part of that, counseling the organization in areas like product, compliance, employment, IP, customer and supply chain agreements, and disputes. We approach the law like practical engineers: understanding constraints and optimizing quickly amidst complexity and uncertainty. We don't just identify obstacles–we design pathways through them, partnering across engineering, product, and business teams to turn legal challenges into competitive advantages. With integrity and ingenuity, we protect the company, accelerate innovation, and ensure every launch soars.
About the role:
We're seeking a Product Counsel to join Skydio's world-class Legal team. This role demands general legal acumen across IP, compliance, and commercial, and the humility to know when to call for backup. In this role, you will work closely with our software engineering, marketing, and other technical and business teams and will be instrumental in shaping current and future products and ensuring product compliance across verticals at home and abroad.
This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, who values creativity, autonomy, and collaboration, who loves the product, and who likes to roll up their sleeves, own the outcome, and work shoulder-to-shoulder in the trenches with engineers and execs alike.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Help develop and execute product legal strategy across all products
- Go-to counsel and lawyer for select teams like marketing, product, and software engineering
- Build and foster relationships across the org, from software engineers to execs
- Contribute to Skydio's entrepreneurial culture by exploring fresh ideas, identifying risk areas, and finding smart, creative ways to address them
- Adopt tools and create processes to automate, encourage self-service, and work efficiently
- Become an expert in flying robots
- You hold a JD and are admitted to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- You have 5+ years of legal experience in a top firm or company
- You have experience with both hardware and software
- You know how to triage and ruthlessly prioritize
- You manage multiple projects with competing deadlines, maintaining a high standard of accuracy and follow-through
- You thrive in collaborative settings, understanding that building strong relationships across departments is vital to success
- You're comfortable with ambiguity, eager to problem solve, and take the initiative to drive projects to completion
- Experience with international, federal, state and local government as customers is ideal
