Product Legal Counsel

Teradata recently launched a new Product Counsel function, providing an incredible opportunity for a business minded lawyer who is deeply curious about AI and looking to make a real impact. As the front-line advisor for Teradata’s product and engineering teams, Product Counsel will guide the development, launch, and lifecycle management of innovative technology products. This role is pivotal in ensuring regulatory compliance, managing legal risk, and protecting Teradata’s intellectual property, while enabling business growth and product excellence.

Responsibilities

Partner with business on feature design, go-to-market decisions, and product risk tradeoffs, including advising on when and how to proceed in the face of legal uncertainty; Advise product, engineering, and business teams on legal issues throughout the product lifecycle—from ideation to launch and beyond; Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including AI, privacy, trade, ESG, and intellectual property; Draft and negotiate commercial, technology, procurement, and IP agreements affecting Teradata’s products and services; Product Counsel provides legal oversight and strategic support for the Product Counsel Contract Manager function, including advising on contract structure, assessing legal and regulatory risk, resolving escalated negotiation issues, establishing approved contracting positions, and maintaining the playbooks and escalation frameworks that enable efficient execution of product, alliances, procurement-related commercial agreements; Conduct risk assessments and develop proactive mitigation strategies for product-related legal risks; Monitor and enforce intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, open-source licensing, and copyrights; Act as a bridge between product, legal, compliance, and business teams to drive alignment and resolve complex issues; Lead coordination for cross-functional projects, including product launches and regulatory reviews; Draft terms of use, product policies, disclosures, and implement related processes; Provide clear, actionable guidance to product teams and translate legal advice into practical business solutions; Develop scalable legal processes, frameworks, playbooks, and documentation that enable product, procurement and global alliances teams to move more efficiently while managing legal risk; Stay current on industry trends, regulatory developments, and emerging risks in technology and data analytics; Advise on new product directions, market entry, and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

JD or international legal qualification and licensed to practice law; Sufficient technical fluency to engage deeply with engineering and product teams, understand system architecture and data flows at a conceptual level, and meaningfully advise on technical tradeoffs; 12+ years of relevant experience with a focus on technology, privacy, or product counseling and a deep understanding of product development, technology law, and regulatory frameworks; Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects, prioritize tasks, and work effectively in cross-functional teams; Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills; Ability to operate independently with limited supervision, exercise strong judgment in ambiguous situations, and confidently drive issues to resolution across multiple stakeholders; In-house experience at a technology company, with significant transactional and product counseling experience; Familiarity with and experience advising on key legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to AI products and systems, as well as general privacy regulations and how they apply to tech products (e.g., GDPR, CPRA, EU AI Act, Open Source); A well-grounded knowledge of intellectual property law; Sound and practical business judgment in counseling clients and throughout your work; Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage a high-volume workload in a fast-paced and demanding work environment and excellent written and verbal communication skills; Bias and drive for action, learning and problem solving; a service-oriented mindset; Collaborative teammate and able to work independently.

Nice to have

prior engineering or product development experience combined with law firm or in house experience

Benefits

people-first culture; flexible work model; focus on well-being; inclusive environment; healthy work/life balance