Our client, a mission driven, fast-growing private cloud company and leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, and data observability, has exclusively retained Solutus Legal Search to assist the Company in its search for a Senior Product Counsel.
Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, Product and IP, this attorney will join as an early member of the company’s elite and business-focused legal team. This hire will be responsible for supporting product and engineering teams as a trusted legal partner across the full product lifecycle — from early-stage feature development through launch and beyond. As our product legal function grows, you’ll shape how we build responsibly at scale, across an expanding, multi-product portfolio — including our core database, observability, security, and Postgres offerings — and multiple deployment models. You will act as a solutions-oriented advisor and business enabler in a rapidly growing company while maintaining high standards for both legal practice and business ethics. You will report to ClickHouse’s Deputy General Counsel, Product and IP.
Responsibilities Include:
- Join the product legal team as an early member and serve as a legal partner to ClickHouse’s product, engineering, and design organizations across the full product development lifecycle.
- Cultivate strong relationships with product and engineering leadership and act as a pragmatic, solutions-oriented legal advisor.
- Advise on legal issues arising from new product offerings and product features, including data privacy, intellectual property, open-source software, and AI/ML. Own the product terms, disclosures, and compliance requirements for various deployment models, billing and pricing changes, and offerings for government/regulated customers (e.g., FedRAMP-authorized offering).
- Advise on open-source licensing strategy and compliance.
- Draft, review, and maintain product-specific legal terms, policies, and documentation.
- Support legal integration work arising from acquisitions, including diligence of acquired product IP, policy alignment, and creation of new or modified legal terms for acquired company customers.
- Advise on trademark and brand protection matters, including monitoring for potential infringement, responding to third-party claims, and counseling on product naming and go-to-market materials.
- Partner with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance team to build privacy-by-design practices into product development and ensure compliance with global data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, and equivalents) and standards.
- Partner with the Security and Privacy teams on incident response, vulnerability remediation, and customer security obligations, advising on notification obligations, regulatory reporting requirements, and customer communications.
- Monitor and advise on relevant regulatory, compliance, and legal developments impacting the product, including AI, privacy, and export compliance, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate them into actionable guidance.
- Help develop scalable legal workflows that support rapid product iteration and growth.
The Ideal Candidate
- Law degree and member in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Exceptional academic performance and training, including law degree from a highly ranked law school (e.g., Top 30) and/or experience at a top-tier law firm in the technology space.
- 4 to 8 years of experience, preferably with a meaningful mix of Big Law and in-house at a technology company.
- Located in the United States.
- Currently in an in-house product counsel role at a technology company, or a commercial or IP counsel role with meaningful product-facing experience.
- Strong command of the core product legal disciplines: privacy (GDPR, CCPA), IP, open-source licensing, and product terms and commercial structures, with working familiarity with AI/ML issues.
- Excellent judgment and business orientation — able to translate complex legal risk into practical product advice.
- Strong communicator and collaborator, comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-growth environment.
- Experience at a SaaS company, particularly in databases, data infrastructure, or data platforms.
- Hands-on experience advising on product-related AI regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, state AI legislation) or training data governance.
This is an incredible opportunity to join a fast growing and highly valued emerging company supporting the development of core technology in a transformational era.
Compensation is targeted at an annual base salary of $250,000 to $275,000, plus equity, and generous benefits. The total compensation package will vary and depend on the candidate’s level of seniority, number of years of directly relevant experience, and geographic location.