Senior Legal Counsel – Product and Commercial

Senior Legal Counsel – Product and Commercial

Requirements

• Admitted to the California Bar or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
• 8+ years of legal experience, including 4+ years of combined in-house commercial and product legal experience at a software technology company.
• Computer science degree or technical background in software engineering for the web.
• Significant experience counseling product and engineering teams through the product development lifecycle from conception to launch and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the software industry.
• Strong understanding of cloud services and general SaaS, PaaS, IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements, with a willingness to dig deep into Vercel’s growing and evolving product offerings in order to build a solid foundation for providing support across all relevant lines of business.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and cooperative team player, willing to take on additional responsibilities where no job is too small or too large.
• Strong judgment and risk-assessment and mitigation skills with the ability to make recommendations and decisions with imperfect facts, adapting legal requirements in creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate communication and understanding at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to confidently and independently manage and negotiate technology agreements with a wide variety of customers and technology and professional services vendors.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a proven track record of building new or improving existing programs or processes at other high-growth companies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as one of the first points of contact for legal issues throughout the product development lifecycle and provide practical day to day and strategic advice to the engineering, product, and design teams.
• Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes to provide products that our customers can trust.
• Support the readiness and release of products and features by identifying and driving resolution of issues related to privacy, data security, marketing, competition, intellectual property, and other legal and regulatory areas.
• Provide practical day-to-day legal support to sales and procurement, including negotiation of partnership, reseller, customer, and vendor agreements.
• Draft and maintain templates and agreements, including API terms, partnership and reseller agreements, data protection addendum.
• Address a variety of issues of first impression and other special projects as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Used Vercel’s products and services.
• Experience with intellectual property or open source software.
• Supported channel and reseller partnerships.