Product Counsel

Tanium; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision plan

401(k) with match

Job summary

Tanium seeks a highly motivated product counsel to join our legal team in Bellevue, WA area. You will provide practical legal advice to engineering and product management across domestic and international product issues, helping drive go-to-market goals with a pragmatic, cross-functional approach.

You will lead AI policy and risk assessments, ensure privacy by design, review licenses and open-source processes, and contribute to IP strategy while coordinating with outside counsel to support

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited institution.
• Active and in good standing in at least one state bar.
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience in software/SaaS or related tech.
• Familiarity with AI governance and regulatory frameworks (NIST RMF, EU AI Act).
• Knowledge of global privacy laws and their impact on product development.
• Strong communication and independent work ability.
• Ability to drive cross-functional consensus and enforce legal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical legal advice on product-related issues domestically and globally.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Strategy through the product lifecycle.
• Advise on AI policies, licensing, and risk assessments.
• Develop processes to ensure compliance with global laws including privacy and data security.
• Negotiate inbound and outbound license agreements.
• Participate in the open-source review process.
• Advise on privacy by design and data handling throughout the SDLC.
• Review product collateral and marketing materials.
• Support IP strategy and manage patent/trademark portfolios with outside counsel.
• Assist with incident response and security events.

Skills

Legal advice

Cross-functional

AI governance

Privacy law knowledge

Negotiation

Open-source review

Education

JD from accredited school

Job description

The Basics

Tanium is seeking a highly motivated, proactive attorney to join our legal team as product counsel. The right person for this position must be self-motivated, intellectually curious and willing to dig deep into the development of our products to become a trusted advisor for engineering and product management. We need a team player who is comfortable working across the organization and has a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Tanium is seeking a highly motivated, proactive attorney to join our legal team as product counsel. The right person for this position must be self-motivated, intellectually curious and willing to dig deep into the development of our products to become a trusted advisor for engineering and product management. We need a team player who is comfortable working across the organization and has a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Durham, NC; Bellevue, WA; Reston, VA; or Emeryville, CA.

What You’ll Do

• Provide practical legal advice and counseling on a full range of product-related issues that arise domestically and internationally
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering and Strategy teams through the entire product lifecycle to identify issues, recommend practical solutions, and assist cross-functional efforts to achieve go-to-market goals
• Serve as a legal advisor on AI matters, including advising on AI policies, liability, licensing, responsible AI development, deployment, and risk assessments
• Develop and enhance processes designed to ensure ongoing product compliance with global laws and regulations, including global privacy laws, data security, export control and trade compliance
• Negotiate inbound and outbound license agreements
• Participate in the company's open-source review process
• Advise on privacy by design, privacy impact assessments, and data handling and minimization principles throughout the software development lifecycle
• Review product collateral and marketing materials
• Serve as a subject matter expert on our products for the Contracts and Legal teams and assist with contract negotiations
• Support the company's incident response program and respond to security events
• Contribute to the company’s IP strategy and product roadmap, including management of patent and trademark portfolios and IP enforcement activities in coordination with product teams and outside counsel

We’re Looking For Someone With

• JD from an accredited institution
• Active and in good standing in at least one state bar
• At least 5 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, government agency, and/or in-house, with substantive exposure to the software, SaaS, or related technology industry
• Familiarity with emerging AI legal considerations, governance frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act) and regulations, with the ability to translate requirements into actionable guidance for product and engineering teams
• Working knowledge of global privacy laws and their impact on software product development
• Exceptionally good communication skills
• Proven ability to work independently as well as part of a tightly-knit legal team
• Ability to work cross-functionally within an organization to build consensus and achieve strategic goals as well as the ability to enforce legal requirements without alienating clients

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.

Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security toinnovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visitwww.tanium.comand follow us onLinkedInandX.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $191,000 to $293,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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