Senior Product Counsel

Abnormal Security Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 233,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to join their dynamic legal team. In this remote role, you will shape the future of cybersecurity by navigating complex legal and regulatory challenges in AI, privacy, and SaaS. Your expertise will guide product development, ensuring compliance with global regulations while fostering innovation. This position offers a unique opportunity to be a strategic advisor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business objectives. If you are passionate about legal aspects in technology and eager to make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Generous Healthcare Coverage

Equity Participation

Fully Distributed Workforce

Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience, ideally in-house and law firm roles.
• Strong understanding of B2B SaaS, AI, and global privacy laws.

Responsibilities

• Support product development and GTM programs for strategic value.
• Conduct compliance reviews and establish scalable legal processes.

Skills

Legal Expertise

Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Technical Acumen

Organizational Skills

Education

JD or US law degree

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat

genAI tools

Slack

Job description

Senior Product Counsel at Abnormal Security

Full-time, In House Counsel Position: Remote

The Opportunity

Are you ready to shape the future of cybersecurity at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation? Abnormal Security is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to join our expanding legal team and to work on the forefront of cutting-edge legal and regulatory challenges in cybersecurity, AI, privacy, and SaaS. As our first Senior Product Counsel, you’ll play a pivotal role in assisting to build a scalable Product legal function and partnering closely with our stakeholders in engineering, product, security, and go-to-market (GTM) teams. You’ll assist in shaping and executing on the legal aspects of our product development lifecycle, working to ensure alignment with global regulations, contractual commitments, market expectations, and industry best practices. This is more than just a legal role—it’s an opportunity to be a strategic advisor who accelerates business objectives while mitigating risk. At Abnormal Security, our Legal team isn’t just about being great lawyers—that’s a given. We thrive by becoming trusted business partners who drive innovation and enable success for our teams and customers. If you’re passionate about working at the forefront of cybersecurity and AI and excited to help deliver AI-native cybersecurity solutions to a global market, we’d love to hear from you.

Who you are

• A lawyer who is energized by operationalizing and executing, and who is self-driven and has a strong capacity for guiding the teams you support.
• Pragmatic, business-minded legal professional with a collaborative, team-first approach.
• Comfortable navigating startup environments; delivering clarity and guidance in dynamic, and sometimes ambiguous, situations.
• Embrace cross-functional teamwork, and enjoy the thrill of working on novel and complex issues to help influence the direction of amazing products for our global customers.
• A clear communicator who can distill complex legal issues into actionable insights and advice to technical and business stakeholders.
• A person who shows up with grace, empathy, and a positive attitude no matter the circumstances.
• A strategic thinker with strong organizational skills, a client-centric mindset and desire to make legal processes more efficient.
• Committed to demonstrating our core principles and mission on a daily basis.

What you’ll do

You’ll support product development initiatives and GTM programs to deliver strategic value and pragmatic solutions to our product designers, builders, and maintainers. Representative work may include:

• Product and Feature Compliance Reviews: 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 lifecycle. This includes reviewing customer-facing technical documentation and product marketing materials to ensure our products meet legal, regulatory, market expectation, and contractual requirements.
• Process Development: Assist in establishing scalable processes to integrate legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Commercial Collaboration: 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.
• Audit: Serve as Product Legal lead for security and privacy audit activities such as SOC 2, ISO, HITRUST, PCI, FedRAMP, etc.
• Privacy Collaboration: Partner with Privacy stakeholders on impact assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Open Source & Export Compliance: Partner with internal stakeholders to iterate and operationalize open source and export compliance programs.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as an internal resource on privacy and data protection laws.
• Inbound Licensing: 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.
• Regulatory Monitoring: Track and advise on evolving regulations impacting our products.
• Training & Enablement: Create training programs for cross-functional teams on privacy and product compliance.
• Growth Opportunity: Be open to increasing responsibilities as the company expands.

Experience and qualifications you’ll need

• Education & Licensing: JD or US law degree with bar admission in good standing in at least one US state.
• Legal Expertise: 8+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally in both in-house and law firm roles.
• Subject Matter Knowledge: Strong understanding of B2B SaaS, AI, software licensing, intellectual property, and global privacy/data protection laws.
• Problem-Solving: Proven ability to navigate complex business and decision-making challenges, balancing legal and non-legal factors (e.g., culture, brand, government relations, and finance).
• Technical Acumen: Comfortable learning and engaging with technical concepts and emerging technologies.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated success partnering across diverse business teams and functions in a fast-paced environment.
• Organizational Skills: Excellent project management, prioritization, and multitasking abilities.
• Global Experience: Familiarity with working across time zones and cultures; start-up experience is a plus.
• Tech Proficiency: Comfortable using tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, genAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Writer, Claude, GitHub Copilot), and Slack.
• Certifications: Privacy and security certifications (e.g., CIPP/E, CISM, CCSK) are advantageous.

Geo: A candidate located on the West coast is preferred.

At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.

Base salary range:

$233,000 — $260,000 USD

As part of Abnormal AI's secure hiring practices, we conduct video interviews and validate applicant identity at various stages through our recruitment process. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.

About Abnormal AI

We're one of the world's fastest growing cybersecurity companies, on a mission to protect the modern workplace from the most pressing threats. Our AI-native technology was built from the ground up to tackle forward-looking security challenges, and our team works with bleeding-edge technology to keep our customers and their people safe as attacks grow ever more sophisticated. Our team is what makes us successful, which is why we're committed to a culture of learning, ownership, and high performance, where you'll have the opportunity to accelerate your growth and unlock excellence with the support of talented colleagues.

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. Our compensation and benefits philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain top talent: Competitive Compensation We pay competitively to attract, reward, and retain top talent in the market.

Equity is an important part of our total comp strategy. When the company does well, we all do well. Equity is an important and exciting part of our total compensation strategy as a pre-IPO startup. We’re guided by the belief our team members should share in the financial success of our company and grant equity accordingly.

Flexible PTO: All regular salaried team members enjoy flexible PTO. We want team members to grow with us, and a big part of that is making sure our team has the opportunity to rest and recharge. We also observe 12 paid holidays every year.

Generous Healthcare Coverage for You and Your Family: In the US, we cover 100% of employee health care premium costs, and up to 100% for dependents, depending on the plan. Internationally, we offer similarly generous coverage, customized to each country in which we operate.

Fully Distributed Workforce: Operating as a globally-distributed, majority remote company means we get to work with talented folks, no matter where they live. We prioritize a balance of deep focus time with Zoom meetings, and regular in-person events. As a fast-growing startup, we continuously review, improve, and personalize our benefits offerings based on the team’s input. Don’t see something that’s important to you? Let us know!

Our Interview Process

We value transparency at Abnormal, and our interview process is no exception.

Inclusion Matters

Abnormal is committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Privacy Policy

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