Sr. Counsel, Product

Job ID: GAQ427R191 | Reports to Assistant General Counsel, Product

About the role

Databricks is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to help the legal team provide cutting-edge, practical legal advice to engineering and product management teams as we navigate rapidly evolving global laws and regulations in big data, including data privacy, data protection, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate expertise in product counseling, data protection laws, marketing, and technology transactions, with the capacity to be a generalist and learn new areas of law and legal skills quickly
• Exercise keen business and legal judgment — know when to say “yes”, “no, unless …”, and “no”, and when to escalate concerns
• Contribute to developing processes to improve the product counseling function
• Provide end-to-end product counseling from ideation to end of life
• Partner with teams across Databricks and close external partners building, deploying, and operating technology for external and internal users
• Work cross-functionally with commercialization, product marketing, marketing, and communications teams to bring transformative offerings to market
• Collaborate with other legal leaders in commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs on product issues
• Deeply understand product and data risk issues to hear and answer questions that aren’t asked, translating technical and security concerns into answers understandable to non-technical lawyers
• Assist product stakeholders in developing process improvements
• Draft and update form agreements regarding products and services, and negotiate product and security-related changes to customer contracts, including DPAs and BAAs
• Provide general legal support on a flexible, as-needed basis across other areas of the business
• Work with potential vendors to understand data flows, determine privacy and data protection risk, and coordinate with the privacy legal team as appropriate
• Advise on cybersecurity issues as a member of incident response teams
• Contribute as a team player to further the legal department’s reputation as an effective, respected, and valued resource within the company

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (combination of both a plus), with a minimum of 2 years focused experience in product, privacy, and/or IP law
• Experience with AI, FedRAMP requirements, or payments a plus
• Experience working for a company offering platform services to business customers a plus
• Deep understanding of cloud and software technology, and a strong desire to work on legal issues in these areas
• Technical background — either an engineering or hard science academic background, demonstrated ability to acquire deep product understanding, or significant life experience as a general technology nerd
• State bar membership required
• Ability to prioritize and manage time and client expectations amid competing demands, often without direct guidance as the business scales rapidly
• Comfortable working with distributed teams
• Ability to exercise good judgment in raising issues and when collaborating with others
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Pay

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay ranges below represent expected salary for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation varies based on job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. The total compensation package may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

• Zone 1: $244,200 — $335,850 USD
• Zone 2: $219,800 — $302,300 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.