Director, Product Counsel

Mission

• Serve as the dedicated legal advisor to Product and Engineering teams, contributing to roadmap planning, design reviews, and product launch processes.
• Advise on legal and regulatory considerations across GPU/LPU clusters, dedicated bare-metal and virtualized compute, cloud services, networking, storage, and managed AI platform offerings.
• Guide product decisions involving privacy, data governance, data handling, cross-border data transfers, and data residency requirements.
• Partner with technical teams to identify and address legal risk early in the product development lifecycle.
• Advise on AI-related legal issues, including model training data, inference outputs, intellectual property, copyright, and liability allocation.
• Review new features, platform capabilities, and service offerings prior to launch to assess legal, regulatory, and compliance implications.
• Partner with commercial legal colleagues on complex customer and partner transactions, including cloud services, infrastructure, HWaaS, master services, data processing, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Develop, maintain, and improve standard-form agreements, terms of service, acceptable use policies, and related legal frameworks supporting our cloud and AI platform offerings.
• Advise on global privacy, AI governance, and data protection requirements, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, U.S. state privacy laws, and emerging AI regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, and Business Development to support product launches, strategic initiatives, and customer-facing programs.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams on legal considerations related to FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks.
• Monitor and interpret emerging AI regulations and policy developments, translating legal requirements into practical product and business guidance.
• Advise on export control requirements, including EAR and ITAR considerations affecting compute infrastructure, cloud-delivered services, and international customers.
• Provide guidance on open-source software licensing and compliance across products and services.
• Build scalable legal processes, playbooks, and self-service resources that empower teams to move quickly while maintaining sound risk management.
• Manage outside counsel relationships and engagements as needed.
• Help shape the evolution of the legal function, and the team, as the company grows.

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant work supporting technology products and commercial transactions.
• A track record of advising Product, Engineering, and business teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Deep knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, and related global regulations.
• Experience supporting hyperscaler, cloud infrastructure, AI platform, or other highly technical technology businesses.
• Familiarity with AI governance, emerging AI regulatory frameworks, and legal issues related to model development and deployment.
• Experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial agreements and strategic technology partnerships.
• Working knowledge of export control regulations and their application to cloud infrastructure, compute services, and international operations.
• Experience advising on open-source software licensing and intellectual property matters.
• A talent for translating complex legal requirements into practical, business-focused guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong business judgment, clear communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.
• A demonstrated ability to build scalable processes and balance growth with legal and regulatory risk.
• Comfort operating with a high degree of ownership, autonomy, and cross-functional influence.

• Purposeful Hiring: You’re not here by accident, and neither is anyone else. Every teammate is handpicked with intention because who we build with matters.
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• Tackling Hard Problems: If easy isn’t your thing, you’re in the right place. We solve some of the most complex and exciting challenges in our space.
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