Hybrid Director, Product Foundations

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About the role

  • 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.

Job title

Director, Product Foundations

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$310,000 - $340,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

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