Senior Legal Counsel, Product

Vercel

Senior Counsel enabling Vercel's product innovation and shipping velocity. Partnering with cross-functional teams to provide legal support throughout the product development lifecycle.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $270,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner closely with EPD teams to enable cutting-edge product initiatives, balancing innovation and speed with responsible risk management and customer trust.
Identify and drive resolution of issues related to privacy, data security, AI, platform safety, marketing, competition, intellectual property, and other legal and regulatory areas.
Help translate evolving laws and market expectations into practical, actionable guidance.
Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes and draft/maintain templates that allow Vercel to ship faster and smarter over time.
Engage on special projects and provide legal support to sales, partnerships, procurement, M&A, and other teams as needed, particularly in transactions where nuanced product knowledge is critical.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Admitted to the California Bar or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
8+ years of legal experience, including 4+ years of product legal experience at a software company.
Significant experience counseling product and engineering teams through the product development lifecycle from conception to launch and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the software industry.
Strong understanding of cloud services and general SaaS, PaaS, IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements.
Able to quickly form and convincingly communicate a point of view, under time pressure and with imperfect information.
Loves being a generalist and avoids silos. Will take on additional responsibilities and explore subjects outside of your core expertise where no job is too big or too small.
Strong judgment and risk-assessment and mitigation skills, adapting legal requirements in creative and pragmatic ways.
Can independently manage and negotiate technology agreements with customers, technology partners, and technology vendors.
Prefers fast-paced, highly variable environments, with a proven track record of building new or improving existing processes at other hyper-growth companies.
Enjoys mentoring and advising Legal teammates regardless of formal reporting lines.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Compensation may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.

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Hard Skills & Tools

legal experienceproduct legal experiencecounseling product teamsadvising on legal aspectsnegotiating technology agreementsrisk assessmentrisk mitigationcloud servicesSaaSPaaS

Soft Skills

communicationjudgmentadaptabilitymentoringproblem-solvingcollaborationcreativitytime managementgeneralist mindsetprocess improvement

Certifications

California Bar admissionRegistered In-House Counsel eligibility