Legal Counsel, Product
Job Description:
• Advise product and engineering teams on legal issues across the product development lifecycle, flagging risks early and recommending practical paths forward.
• Provide legal support for AI-related product development, including data retention practices, model vendor terms and acceptable use policies, opt-in flows, and customer-facing AI documentation.
• Partner with procurement legal on vendor and product-related agreements, including reviews of AI model vendor contracts, partnership terms, and procurement escalations.
• Support commercial legal with product and intellectual property (IP) guidance during customer negotiations, and help maintain field enablement materials as features evolve.
• Counsel on open source licensing, including assessing license obligations for new dependencies and advising on upstream license changes that affect how GitLab builds and distributes software.
• Draft, maintain, and improve legal templates, internal policies, and playbooks that enable teams to make consistent decisions with clear guidance.
• Review product marketing materials for accuracy, and advise on advertising, trademark, and brand questions to ensure product claims are defensible and aligned with how features work.
• Monitor changes in law and emerging legal risks, especially AI regulation, and propose process improvements that strengthen how GitLab ships and markets products responsibly.
Requirements:
• JD/LLB or local law degree equivalent and admission to state bar or analogous governing body.
• Experience counseling product and engineering teams on matters across the software development lifecycle
• Working knowledge of open source licensing concepts and how they apply to software development and distribution
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and improving commercial agreements, templates, and internal policies, with the ability to give practical guidance that scales
• Sufficient grounding in privacy frameworks to spot issues and partner effectively with privacy colleagues
• Familiarity with legal issues related to AI product development and emerging AI regulation, and willingness to build expertise in new areas as regulations and product capabilities evolve
• Ability to engage with technical and business stakeholders, communicate clearly in writing, and work effectively in a remote, globally distributed, asynchronous environment
• Comfort using technology daily, learning new tools quickly, and improving workflows through clear documentation and process improvement
Benefits:
• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support
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• Advise product and engineering teams on legal issues across the product development lifecycle, flagging risks early and recommending practical paths forward.
• Provide legal support for AI-related product development, including data retention practices, model vendor terms and acceptable use policies, opt-in flows, and customer-facing AI documentation.
• Partner with procurement legal on vendor and product-related agreements, including reviews of AI model vendor contracts, partnership terms, and procurement escalations.
• Support commercial legal with product and intellectual property (IP) guidance during customer negotiations, and help maintain field enablement materials as features evolve.
• Counsel on open source licensing, including assessing license obligations for new dependencies and advising on upstream license changes that affect how GitLab builds and distributes software.
• Draft, maintain, and improve legal templates, internal policies, and playbooks that enable teams to make consistent decisions with clear guidance.
• Review product marketing materials for accuracy, and advise on advertising, trademark, and brand questions to ensure product claims are defensible and aligned with how features work.
• Monitor changes in law and emerging legal risks, especially AI regulation, and propose process improvements that strengthen how GitLab ships and markets products responsibly.
Requirements:
• JD/LLB or local law degree equivalent and admission to state bar or analogous governing body.
• Experience counseling product and engineering teams on matters across the software development lifecycle
• Working knowledge of open source licensing concepts and how they apply to software development and distribution
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and improving commercial agreements, templates, and internal policies, with the ability to give practical guidance that scales
• Sufficient grounding in privacy frameworks to spot issues and partner effectively with privacy colleagues
• Familiarity with legal issues related to AI product development and emerging AI regulation, and willingness to build expertise in new areas as regulations and product capabilities evolve
• Ability to engage with technical and business stakeholders, communicate clearly in writing, and work effectively in a remote, globally distributed, asynchronous environment
• Comfort using technology daily, learning new tools quickly, and improving workflows through clear documentation and process improvement
Benefits:
• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support
Apply Now
Apply Now