Senior Counsel

Linear
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Analytical thinking","Problem-solving","Negotiation","Collaboration"]

Senior Counsel will own core legal areas, draft and negotiate critical commercial and enterprise agreements, and guide product, privacy, and regulatory matters for a high-velocity, remote-first software company. The role partners closely with product, engineering, and leadership, manages outside counsel, and ensures legal considerations are embedded early in product design to support global growth.

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4 months ago

Senior Counsel

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Job Summary

Senior Counsel will own core legal areas, draft and negotiate critical commercial and enterprise agreements, and guide product, privacy, and regulatory matters for a high-velocity, remote-first software company. The role partners closely with product, engineering, and leadership, manages outside counsel, and ensures legal considerations are embedded early in product design to support global growth.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own core legal areas, including commercial agreements, trademarks, and corporate governance/equity, with support from outside counsel as needed
  • •Develop the legal foundation/frameworks for new products and initiatives
  • •Work closely with our product teams to navigate the legal implications of AI, including data privacy and model usage
  • •Lead negotiations for our most complex enterprise MSAs and DPAs, focusing on high-leverage issues like liability caps and indemnification
  • •Partner with Product and Engineering during feature design and development to identify legal and regulatory implications early—including privacy-by-design, AI data handling, and enterprise compliance requirements—so that legal considerations are built in, not bolted on

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of legal experience, ideally both law firm and in-house
  • •Experience supporting a scaling, product-led company (Series B-D or similar stage)
  • •Experience supporting venture financings and equity matters, including cap table management and corporate governance
  • •Strong commercial contracting experience, including enterprise SaaS agreements
  • •Familiarity with privacy and security requirements for enterprise customers, including the implications of AI data handling
Experience:8+ yearsSaaSTechnologyAIRemote-first
Skills:CommunicationAnalytical thinkingProblem-solvingNegotiationCollaboration

Company Brief

Linear
Linear builds a fast, elegant issue-tracking and product-management platform for software teams, focusing on speed, developer workflows, and AI-assisted tooling to help teams plan, triage, and ship product work more efficiently.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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