Director of Legal, Product Foundations
$310k/y-$340k/y
Vercela day ago
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Summary
Vercel is seeking a Director of Legal, Product Foundations to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role focuses on building the legal foundations that enable product velocity at scale, leading privacy and regulatory matters, and overseeing IP and litigation.
About the Role
As the Director of Product Foundations, you will lead Vercel's privacy program, regulatory strategy, and frameworks, as well as manage the legal team's incident response processes. You will translate complex legal requirements into actionable guidance for product teams, ensuring they can continue to ship products quickly. Additionally, you will build scalable programs using policies, playbooks, templates, trainings, and AI.
About You
Required:
- California Bar admission or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
- 12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful product counseling, privacy, and/or regulatory experience in-house at a high-growth technology company serving enterprise customers.
- Strong understanding of AI, cloud services, and general b2b SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements.
- Strong judgment and creativity around risk-assessment and mitigation.
- Deep technical literacy, comfortable mapping technical architectures, data flows, and controls into legal risk frameworks.
- Exceptional communication and advocacy skills, particularly with non-lawyers.
- Experience managing legal teams, building strategic programs, and partnering with senior business and technical leaders.
Preferred:
- Prior history leading litigation and IP, including familiarity with open source software.
- Experience supporting IPO readiness, M&A integration, and cyber incidents.
- Hands-on experience with DMCA, Digital Services Act, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and other regulations and certifications applicable to Vercel.
- Fluency with AI tools.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Learn and Grow - mentorship and events to build your network and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Gear and WFH budget provided.
Vercel
Vercel provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.
San Francisco, CA