Counsel, Product

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Fastly, a leading edge cloud company, is seeking a Product Counsel to partner with product and engineering teams across the lifecycle from design to launch. This role provides hands-on legal guidance on privacy, IP, data protection, and regulatory matters for cutting-edge product features and partnerships.

You will draft and negotiate terms, build clear disclosures, and help shape scalable policies and training to improve processes.

Qualifications

• JD from a respected institution and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including at least 1 year of in-house experience.
• Comfort sitting in product and engineering meetings and giving practical guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to simplify complex legal issues for business audiences.
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to prioritize and manage projects independently in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborative team player who improves processes and builds relationships.
• Curiosity about APIs, encryption, LLMs, and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Partner day-to-day with product and engineering teams from planning to launch.
• Translate legal and regulatory considerations into clear, actionable guidance for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations; draft and negotiate agreements.
• Draft and review clear terms, disclosures, and marketing copy.
• Help draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, training materials.
• Provide flexible, generalist legal support across Product, Technology, and Regulatory teams.

Skills

Product counseling

Cross-functional

Regulatory knowledge

Negotiation

Drafting contracts

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem-solving

Execution

Curiosity

Education

JD + bar admission

Job description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Product Counsel

We are looking for a Product Counsel to join our legal team. The role will focus on product counseling, providing hands‑on legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle — from early design and planning through launch and iteration. This is a great opportunity for a thoughtful, pragmatic, and collaborative attorney with strong product and business instincts who is eager to learn and wants to help shape innovative edge cloud technologies. We are seeking candidates who value working on a strong and diverse team, and want to contribute to creating a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment. This position reports to the Assistant General Counsel leading the Product, Technology, and Regulatory team, and will be based out of one of our offices with a preference for San Francisco, CA.

What You’ll Do:

• Product Counseling: Partner day-to-day with product and engineering teams — joining planning and design discussions, reviewing features for legal risk, and serving as a go‑to legal point of contact for cutting‑edge product and feature development and launch
• Cross‑Functional Support: Develop and translate legal and regulatory considerations (privacy, IP, AI, data protection, and similar frameworks) into clear, actionable guidance for cross‑functional stakeholders including security and marketing teams
• Commercial Support: Support complex customer, partner and vendor negotiations, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements in collaboration with other legal and business partners
• Drafting & Review: Draft and review clear, consistent terms, disclosures, and marketing copy
• Process & Training: Help draft and maintain policies, playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and training materials to improve process and streamline stakeholder engagement
• General Support: Provide flexible, generalist legal support across the Product, Technology, and Regulatory team's workload as priorities shift

What We’re Looking For:

• Education & Credentials: JD from a respected institution and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• Experience: 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including at least 1 year of in‑house experience
• Product Instincts: Comfort sitting in product and engineering meetings, asking the right questions, and giving real‑time, practical guidance
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex legal issues for a business audience
• Problem‑Solving: A pragmatic, solution‑oriented approach to problem‑solving
• Execution: Ability to prioritize, manage, and complete projects independently in a dynamic, evolving environment
• Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail
• Collaboration: A collaborative team player who enjoys working across disciplines and values building relationships and improving process
• Curiosity: A genuine interest in learning the practical, technical side of the business (APIs, encryption, LLMs, cloud architecture) well enough to give real‑time guidance

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Prior experience advising product, engineering, or other technical teams
• Experience drafting or negotiating technology transactions or commercial agreements
• Emerging knowledge of U.S. or global privacy, AI, or technology regulatory frameworks

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position has one opening and can be hired in the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720.00 to $234,864.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non‑discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [e-mail] or 501-287-4901.