Senior Product Counsel

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla. We're on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

What You Will Be Doing

• Become a founding member of the product legal team, serving as a legal partner to ClickHouse's product, engineering, and design organizations across the full product development lifecycle.
• Cultivate strong relationships with product and engineering leadership and act as a pragmatic, solutions-oriented legal advisor.
• Advise on legal issues arising from new and evolving product features, with a particular focus on AI/ML (including training data, model outputs, IP ownership, and regulatory frameworks), data privacy, intellectual property, and open-source software.
• Advisory on technology licensing and integration partnership agreements with strategic product and ecosystem partners.
• Advisory on open-source licensing strategy and compliance.
• Draft, review, and maintain product-specific legal terms, policies, and documentation.
• Support legal integration work arising from acquisitions, including diligence of acquired product IP, policy alignment, and creation of new or modified legal terms for acquired company customers.
• Advise on trademark and brand protection matters, including monitoring for potential infringement, responding to third-party claims, and counseling on product naming and go-to-market materials.
• Partner with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance team to build privacy-by-design practices into product development and ensure compliance with global data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, and equivalents) and standards.
• Partner with the Security and Privacy teams on incident response, advising on notification obligations, regulatory reporting requirements, and customer communications.
• Monitor and advise on relevant regulatory, compliance, and legal developments impacting the product, including AI, privacy, and export compliance, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate them into actionable guidance.
• Help develop scalable legal workflows that support rapid product iteration and growth.

What You Bring Along

• Law degree and member in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Exceptional academic performance and training, including law degree from a highly ranked law school (e.g., Top 30) and/or experience at a top-tier law firm in the technology space.
• 4 to 8 years of experience, preferably with a meaningful mix of Big Law and in-house at a technology company.
• Strong command of the core product legal disciplines: AI/ML issues, privacy (GDPR, CCPA), open-source licensing, and IP.
• Excellent judgment and business orientation — able to translate complex legal risk into practical product advice.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-growth environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience at a SaaS company, particularly in databases, data infrastructure, or data platforms.
• Hands-on experience advising on product-related AI regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, state AI legislation) or training data governance.

Compensation

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $250,000 - $275,000 USD. Compensation For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.