[Hiring] Senior Corporate Counsel, Product @DigitalOcean

Role Description

We are looking to add a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product, who is passionate about solving complex legal challenges at the leading edge of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

As a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product, reporting to the Associate General Counsel at DigitalOcean, you will join a small and dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. In this role, you will act as a versatile, full-stack product counsel who advises product, engineering, and go-to-market teams across the entire product lifecycle from first concept through global launch and beyond.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as a trusted partner and a primary point of contact for DigitalOcean’s technical and non-technical teams, including Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of legal risks in product development, including addressing privacy, regulatory, licensing, and intellectual property concerns.
• Identify, assess, and drive resolution of legal issues related to customer data, privacy, security, export control, open-source software, and responsible AI.
• Help shape the long-term strategy, structure, and priorities of the product counsel function.
• Advise on US and global privacy laws (such as CCPA and GDPR) and emerging AI regulations to ensure compliance.
• Support the drafting and negotiation of complex commercial agreements and data protection agreements.
• Support legal strategy for critical incident response and regulatory investigations.
• Co-develop scalable self-service legal playbooks, templates, and automated workflows.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state.
• 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house experience supporting SaaS, PaaS, and/or IaaS product development teams.
• A track record of counseling AI product and engineering teams across the product development lifecycle.
• A low-ego, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small.
• Proven experience in using strong business judgement to calibrate business and legal risk.
• A strong understanding of US and global privacy regulations, intellectual property, open-source software, artificial intelligence, and data security.
• Experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements.
• Superlative communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Expertise in one or more specialized areas, such as U.S. and global privacy law (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), data security, IP and open source, or emerging AI / ML regulation.
• Familiarity with cloud security and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2).
• A focus on launching AI / ML products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in that space.
• Experience supporting incident response or regulatory investigations.
• Experience in implementing self-service legal tooling, automation, or workflows for technical teams.

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support employee well-being.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses for continued growth and development.
• Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance.
• Equity compensation for eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire.