Senior Product Counsel

Summary

Join Abnormal Security as their first Senior Product Counsel and shape the future of cybersecurity. This remote, full-time position requires a collaborative, business-minded lawyer with 8+ years of experience in SaaS, AI, and global privacy laws. You will build a scalable product legal function, partnering with engineering, product, and GTM teams. Responsibilities include product compliance reviews, process development, commercial collaboration, and serving as a product legal lead for security and privacy audits. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with strong organizational skills and experience navigating startup environments. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• JD or US law degree with bar admission in good standing in at least one US state
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally in both in-house and law firm roles
• Strong understanding of SaaS, AI, software licensing, intellectual property, and global privacy/data protection laws
• Proven ability to navigate complex business and decision-making challenges, balancing legal and non-legal factors (e.g., culture, brand, government relations, and finance)
• Comfortable learning and engaging with technical concepts and emerging technologies
• Demonstrated success partnering across diverse business teams and functions in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent project management, prioritization, and multitasking abilities
• Comfortable using tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, genAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Writer, Claude, GitHub Copilot), and Slack

Responsibilities

• Support product development initiatives and GTM programs to deliver strategic value and pragmatic solutions to our product designers, builders, and maintainers
• 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
• Assist in establishing scalable processes to integrate legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle
• 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
• Serve as Product Legal lead for security and privacy audit activities such as SOC 2, ISO, HITRUST, PCI, FedRAMP, etc
• Partner with Privacy stakeholders on impact assessments and mitigation strategies
• Partner with internal stakeholders to iterate and operationalize open source and export compliance programs
• Serve as an internal resource on privacy and data protection laws
• 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
• Track and advise on evolving regulations impacting our products
• Create training programs for cross-functional teams on privacy and product compliance
• Be open to increasing responsibilities as the company expands

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with working across time zones and cultures; start-up experience is a plus
• Privacy and security certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CISM, CCSK) are advantageous
• A candidate located on the West coast is preferred

Benefits

• Bonus
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Benefits
• Base salary range: $233,000 — $260,000 USD