Senior Corporate Counsel, Product

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We are looking to add a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product, who is passionate about solving complex legal challenges at the leading edge of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

As a Senior Corporate Counsel, Product, reporting to the Associate General Counsel at DigitalOcean, you will join a small and dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. DigitalOcean's mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI so that builders and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. In this role, you will act as a versatile, full-stack product counsel who advises product, engineering, and go-to-market teams across the entire product lifecycle from first concept through global launch and beyond. Working alongside dedicated product, security, and regulatory colleagues, you will guide critical initiatives spanning cutting-edge product development, customer trust, and data-driven growth.

• Serve as a trusted partner and a primary point of contact for DigitalOcean’s technical and non-technical teams, including Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations.

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of legal risks in product development, including addressing privacy, regulatory, licensing, and intellectual property concerns, to support the product lifecycle from design and definition to global launch and post-release iteration.

• Identify, assess, and drive resolution of legal issues related to customer data, privacy, security, export control, open-source software, and responsible AI.

• Help shape the long-term strategy, structure, and priorities of the product counsel function.

• Advise on US and global privacy laws (such as CCPA and GDPR) and emerging AI regulations to ensure that DigitalOcean and its affiliates maintain strict global compliance.

• Support the drafting and negotiation of complex commercial agreements and data protection agreements to seamlessly facilitate product launches and safeguard corporate interests, including vendor agreements, technology partnership agreements, terms of service, product specific terms, privacy policies, and acceptable use policies.

• Support legal strategy for critical incident response and regulatory investigations, partnering with Security, Privacy, and Communications teams.

• Co-develop scalable self-service legal playbooks, templates, and automated workflows to empower Engineering and Product teams.

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state.

• 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house experience supporting SaaS, PaaS, and/or IaaS product development teams.

• A track record of counseling AI product and engineering teams across the product development lifecycle, from design and definition through global launch and post-release iteration.

• A low-ego, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small, a desire to learn, an appetite for feedback, and a "leave it better than you found it" growth mindset.

• Proven experience in using strong business judgement to calibrate business and legal risk, and translating complex legal advice into actionable guidance for Product, Engineering, and Operations