Senior Product Counsel - Product
$219.8k - $335.9k+ Annual performance bonus + Equity
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Seattle, WA, USA+5 moreMore locations: Washington, DC, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA
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LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support
About the job
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house, with at least 2 years focused on product, privacy, and/or intellectual property law.
- Deep understanding of cloud and software technology and a strong desire to work on related legal issues.
- A technical background through engineering or hard science academics, demonstrated ability to gain deep product understanding, or significant technology-related experience.
- State bar membership is required.
- Ability to prioritize and manage time and client expectations amid competing demands, often without direct guidance.
- Comfort working with distributed teams.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in raising issues and collaborating with others.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide practical legal advice to engineering and product management teams on evolving laws and regulations concerning big data, including data privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence.
- Apply product counseling, data protection law, marketing, and technology transactions expertise, while addressing new areas of law and legal skills as needed.
- Exercise business and legal judgment, determine when to approve, qualify, or reject proposals, and escalate concerns when appropriate.
- Contribute to developing processes that improve the product counseling function.
- Provide end-to-end product counseling from ideation through end of life.
- Partner with internal teams and 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 offerings to market.
- Collaborate with legal leaders in commercial, go-to-market, compliance, corporate, and public affairs on product issues.
- Understand product and data risks, anticipate questions, and translate technical and security concerns into terms understandable to non-technical lawyers.
- Assist product stakeholders in developing process improvements.
- Draft and update form agreements for products and services, and negotiate product- and security-related changes to customer contracts, including data processing agreements and business associate agreements.
- Provide general legal support in other areas of the business as needed.
- Assess vendor data flows to determine privacy and data protection risks and coordinate with the privacy legal team as appropriate.
- Advise on cybersecurity issues as a member of incident response teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with artificial intelligence, FedRAMP requirements, or payments.
- Experience working for a company offering platform services to business customers.
About the company
Databricks builds cloud software that businesses use to organize data, analyze it, and develop AI applications. Its lakehouse architecture brings the flexible storage of a data lake together with the querying and management tools of a data warehouse. Data engineers prepare and update datasets, analysts build reports, and developers train models or create applications in a shared workspace with controls over who can use the data. The platform runs on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google clouds, and customers pay for computing usage or commit to longer contracts for discounted rates. Databricks was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$32.1B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2013
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growth supports larger product bets: Databricks reported over 80% yearly growth and a $7 billion revenue run-rate in August 2026.
- Employees try frontier AI immediately: Databricks says its 12,000 staff received day-one access to September 2026 model releases.
- Existing customers spend more: Databricks reported over 140% revenue retention in February 2026, after contractions and departed accounts.
What critics are saying
- Steep valuation: Databricks' August 2026 round valued it near 27 times its $7 billion annualized revenue milestone.
- A partner controls part of the bill: Microsoft sets Azure Databricks prices and bills those customers directly.
- Equity needs planned liquidity: Databricks remains privately held, so employee shares lack an everyday stock-market exit.
What makes Databricks unique
- Governance extends beyond its own engine: Databricks publishes Unity Catalog's core APIs and server as open source.
- Apps run beside analytics: Databricks' Lakebase combines a Postgres database with its data lake and isolated testing branches.
- Its roots are in distributed computing: Databricks' founders created Apache Spark, which processes large datasets across many computers.
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Benefits
- Extended health care including dental and vision
- Life/AD&D and disability coverage
- Equity awards
- Flexible Vacation
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Business travel accident insurance
- Paid Parental Leave