Director of Product Counsel

Atlassian; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Commissions

Equity

Health benefits

Volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring a Director of Product Counsel to partner with product and engineering teams across the AI era. The role focuses on shaping legal playbooks, guiding data governance, IP, and regulatory decisions while enabling rapid, responsible product delivery.

The position suits a senior lawyer with strong generalist skills and a track record in software products. You will work across Atlassian's US teams, collaborating asynchronously with global SMEs and leaders to enterprise-grade

Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience counseling software products, ideally in the B2B Enterprise SaaS space.
• Qualified attorney with a license to practice law in your jurisdiction.
• Experience supporting fast-moving Product and Engineering teams.
• Ability to translate complex legal topics for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Counsel product and engineering teams on emerging AI/ML and data governance issues.
• Develop frameworks and guardrails to enable rapid, responsible product innovation.
• Serve as the primary legal partner for product initiatives and cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with privacy, IP, regulatory, and commercial SMEs to deliver guidance.
• Help mature the Product Counsel function and scale impact with modern tooling.

Skills

Legal counsel experience

Product & Engineering collaboration

AI/ML regulatory awareness

Strong async writing

Education

Juris Doctor

Tools

Atlassian tools familiarity

Job description

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Overview

Working at Atlassian can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

Your future team

We are building the future of teamwork at Atlassian, and our Product Counsel team is at the heart of that transformation. We operate as strategic partners and trusted advisors embedded directly alongside R&D and product leaders.

As AI reshapes software and the way teams collaborate, we are redefining how Legal enables rapid, responsible product innovation. We are looking for a creative, adaptable Director of Product Counsel who thrives on novel questions, brings a strong generalist toolkit, and is energized by the opportunity to shape our team’s operating model and playbook for the AI era.

What You'll Do

• Navigate the Frontier: Counsel product and engineering teams on emerging, first-impression legal and regulatory issues, especially across AI/ML technologies, data governance, intellectual property, and platform architectures.
• Flex Across Domains: Apply a versatile generalist approach to comfortably pivot across products, technical stacks, and subject areas as business priorities evolve.
• Define the AI Era Playbook: Partner with cross-functional teams to design repeatable frameworks, launch checklists, and scalable legal guardrails that enable R&D teams to ship AI features with velocity and confidence.
• Act as the Legal Hub: Serve as the primary legal partner and "front door" for product initiatives, collaborating closely with Legal SMEs (Privacy, IP, Commercial, Regulatory) to deliver cohesive, business-first guidance.
• Shape Team Culture & Practice: Help mature our growing Product Counsel function by bringing fresh ideas, experimenting with new ways of working, and leveraging modern tech and async tools to scale our impact.

Your background

• 8+ years of legal experience counseling software products, ideally in the B2B Enterprise SaaS space, with experience supporting fast-moving Product and Engineering teams.
• Required Juris Doctor, with a license to practice law in your jurisdiction.
• Background in a law firm and in-house legal team.
• Strong generalist product counseling skillset, with the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar product surfaces, technical architectures, and business models.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and novel issues, including evaluating emerging AI, data, IP, regulatory, and platform questions where there may not be a clear playbook.
• Demonstrated agility to dive into complex technical architectures, synthesize inputs from multiple legal disciplines, and adapt quickly to unfamiliar product surfaces.
• You have a simplifier skillset (no legalese for our Product teams), strong writing skills to excel in our async environment, comfort using technology to get your work done (we love our own tools!), and you're energized by a fast-paced and agile working environment.
• Enthusiasm for building processes and artifacts from scratch, with natural fluency working asynchronously and collaborating through modern team tooling.
• Bonus for candidates who are familiar with Atlassian tools.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Role

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $229,500 - $299,625

Zone B: $206,550 - $269,663

Zone C: $190,485 - $248,689

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.