Product Counsel

Summary

Join Abnormal Security as a Senior Product Counsel and contribute to the future of cybersecurity at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation. You will be responsible for building a scalable Product legal function, partnering with engineering, product, security, and go-to-market teams, and ensuring alignment with global regulations, contractual commitments, and industry best practices. This role offers the opportunity to be a strategic advisor, accelerating business objectives while mitigating risk. You will work on cutting-edge legal and regulatory challenges in cybersecurity, AI, privacy, and SaaS, helping to deliver AI-native cybersecurity solutions to a global market.

Requirements

• Education & Licensing: JD or US law degree with bar admission in good standing in at least one US state
• Legal Expertise: 8+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally in both in-house and law firm roles
• Subject Matter Knowledge: Strong understanding of B2B SaaS, AI, software licensing, intellectual property, and global privacy/data protection laws
• Problem-Solving: Proven ability to navigate complex business and decision-making challenges, balancing legal and non-legal factors (e.g., culture, brand, government relations, and finance)
• Technical Acumen: Comfortable learning and engaging with technical concepts and emerging technologies
• Collaboration: Demonstrated success partnering across diverse business teams and functions in a fast-paced environment
• Organizational Skills: Excellent project management, prioritization, and multitasking abilities
• Global Experience: Familiarity with working across time zones and cultures; start-up experience is a plus
• Tech Proficiency: Comfortable using tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, genAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Writer, Claude, GitHub Copilot), and Slack

Responsibilities

• You’ll support product development initiatives and GTM programs to deliver strategic value and pragmatic solutions to our product designers, builders, and maintainers
• Product and Feature Compliance Reviews : Partner with Security, Privacy, Governance Risk & Compliance teams in conducting new product / feature assessments and providing appropriate and timely guidance to R&D at optimal points during the product development life cycle
• This includes reviewing customer-facing technical documentation and product marketing materials with designs to ensure our products meet legal, regulatory, market expectation, and contractual requirements
• Process Development: Assist in establishing scalable processes to integrate legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle
• Commercial Collaboration: Partner with the Commercial Legal team with respect to product, privacy, security, and regulatory-related contracting points, playbooks, deal support, and key legal team projects
• Audit: Serve as Product Legal lead for security and privacy audit activities such as SOC 2, ISO, HITRUST, PCI, FedRAMP, etc
• Privacy Collaboration: Partner with Privacy stakeholders on impact assessments and mitigation strategies
• Open Source & Export Compliance: Partner with internal stakeholders to iterate and operationalize open source and export compliance programs
• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as an internal resource on privacy and data protection laws
• Inbound licensing: Support our in-bound technology licensing and acquisition efforts for use in our AI-native cybersecurity products by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements with key third party vendors
• Regulatory Monitoring: Track and advise on evolving regulations impacting our products
• Training & Enablement: Create training programs for cross-functional teams on privacy and product compliance
• Growth Opportunity: Be open to increasing responsibilities as the company expands

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: Privacy and security certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CISM, CCSK) are advantageous
• Geo: A candidate located on the West coast is preferred

Benefits

• At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits
• Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons
• We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package
• Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page
• Base salary range: $233,000 — $260,000 USD