Senior Legal Counsel, Product

Vercel
United States
Workplace: HybridFull time310,000 - 340,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Advocacy"]

Director of Product Counseling leads a team of product counsel and partners with Engineering, Product, Design and Security to provide comprehensive legal support across the product development lifecycle. Based in SF with a three-day in-office requirement, the role focuses on scalable processes, cross-functional collaboration, and integrating AI tools into core workflows to accelerate shipping while managing legal risk.

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Vercel
Vercel
7 months ago

Senior Legal Counsel, Product

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Job Summary

Director of Product Counseling leads a team of product counsel and partners with Engineering, Product, Design and Security to provide comprehensive legal support across the product development lifecycle. Based in SF with a three-day in-office requirement, the role focuses on scalable processes, cross-functional collaboration, and integrating AI tools into core workflows to accelerate shipping while managing legal risk.
Location: United States
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead Vercel’s product counseling function as a “player coach,” managing a team of product counsel while serving as the legal lead for certain product areas as we continue to build out the team.
  • •Serve as the primary strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Design leaders, and work closely with Security, GTM, and other cross-functional teams.
  • •Build scalable processes that enable Vercel to ship faster and smarter over time, in partnership with the leader of Product Foundations (which includes privacy and regulatory matters, among other legal functions), and Legal Operations.
  • •Reimagine what product counseling looks like and the impact it can have by integrating agents and other AI tools into core workflows.
  • •Advised on AI, cloud services, and regulatory requirements across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS product offerings, with ability to map technical architectures to legal risk frameworks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 310,000 - 340,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Admitted to the California Bar or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
  • •12+ years of legal experience, including 6+ years of in-house product legal experience at a software company.
  • •3+ years of experience managing, hiring, and developing legal professionals, with a track record of building and retaining high-performing teams.
  • •Strong understanding of AI, cloud services, and general SaaS, PaaS, IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements.
  • •Experience building new, scalable processes to support organizations through hyper-growth, particularly using AI tools.
Experience:12+ yearsSaaSAICloud
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingAdvocacy
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AICloudSaaSPaaSIaaS

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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