Senior Legal Counsel - Product

1w1 week ago

Vercel

San Francisco, US · Full-time · $270,000 – $300,000

About this role

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, we help customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products.

We seek an experienced, technical, and business-minded Senior Counsel to enable product innovation and shipping velocity. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product and Design, Security, and cross-functional teams. This senior individual contributor role reports to the VP of Legal with a 3 day/week in-office requirement in San Francisco.

Day-to-day, you will balance innovation, speed, and risk management while addressing privacy, data security, AI, platform safety, and IP issues. You will translate laws into actionable guidance and build scalable processes with templates. Expect to engage on special projects supporting sales, partnerships, and M&A.

Join as a foundational Legal team member in a fast-paced environment where you can just ship things. Thrive as a generalist avoiding silos, mentoring teammates, and adapting creatively to requirements. Build processes at a hyper-growth company powering the AI-native web.

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 product legal experience at a software company.
Significant experience counseling product and engineering teams through the product development lifecycle from conception to launch.
Strong understanding of cloud services and general SaaS, PaaS, IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements.
Able to quickly form and convincingly communicate a point of view, under time pressure and with imperfect information.
Strong judgment and risk-assessment and mitigation skills, adapting legal requirements in creative and pragmatic ways.
Can independently manage and negotiate technology agreements with customers, technology partners, and technology vendors.
Prefers fast-paced, highly variable environments, with a proven track record of building new or improving existing processes at other hyper-growth companies.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with EPD teams to enable cutting-edge product initiatives, balancing innovation and speed with responsible risk management and customer trust.
Identify and drive resolution of issues related to privacy, data security, AI, platform safety, marketing, competition, intellectual property, and other legal and regulatory areas.
Help translate evolving laws and market expectations into practical, actionable guidance.
Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes and draft/maintain templates that allow Vercel to ship faster and smarter over time.
Engage on special projects and provide legal support to sales, partnerships, procurement, M&A, and other teams as needed, particularly in transactions where nuanced product knowledge is critical.