Director of Product Foundations at Vercel leading privacy and legal frameworks for product velocity. Overseeing IP, litigation, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Lead Vercel’s privacy program, regulatory strategy and frameworks, IP strategy, litigation, and the legal team’s incident response processes
Translate complex requirements into business-oriented, actionable guidance so product teams can continue to ship fast
Build scalable programs using policies, playbooks, templates, trainings, and AI
Requirements
California Bar admission or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful product counseling, privacy, and/or regulatory experience in-house at a high-growth technology company serving enterprise customers
Strong understanding of AI, cloud services, and general b2b SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements
Strong judgment and creativity around risk-assessment and mitigation. Able to make decisions with imperfect facts, embracing Vercel’s speed and obsession with product innovation
Deep technical literacy. Comfortable mapping technical architectures, data flows, and controls into legal risk frameworks. Excited to dig deep to understand Vercel’s evolving product suite.
Exceptional communication and advocacy skills, particularly with non-lawyers
Cooperative approach, willing to take on additional responsibilities where no job is too big or too small.
Experience managing legal teams, building strategic programs, and partnering with senior business and technical leaders.
Fluency with AI tools
Benefits
Competitive compensation package, including equity.
Inclusive Healthcare Package.
Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
Flexible Time Off.
We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.
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