Our client, a mission driven, fast-growing private cloud company and leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, and data observability, has exclusively retained to assist the Company in its search for a Senior Product Counsel.

Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, Product and IP, this attorney will join as an early member of the company’s elite and business-focused legal team. This hire will be responsible for supporting product and engineering teams as a trusted legal partner across the full product lifecycle — from early-stage feature development through launch and beyond. As our product legal function grows, you'll shape how we build responsibly at scale, across an expanding, multi-product portfolio — including our core database, observability, security, and Postgres offerings — and multiple deployment models. You will act as a solutions-oriented advisor and business enabler in a rapidly growing company while maintaining high standards for both legal practice and business ethics. You will report to ClickHouse's Deputy General Counsel, Product and IP.

• Join the product legal team as an early member and serve as a legal partner to ClickHouse's product, engineering, and design organizations across the full product development lifecycle.
• Cultivate strong relationships with product and engineering leadership and act as a pragmatic, solutions-oriented legal advisor.
• Advise on legal issues arising from new product offerings and product features, including data privacy, intellectual property, open-source software, and AI/ML. Own the product terms, disclosures, and compliance requirements for various deployment models, billing and pricing changes, and offerings for government/regulated customers (e.g., FedRAMP-authorized offering).
• Advise on open-source licensing strategy and compliance.
• Draft, review, and maintain product-specific legal terms, policies, and documentation.
• Support legal integration work arising from acquisitions, including diligence of acquired product IP, policy alignment, and creation of new or modified legal terms for acquired company customers.
• Advise on trademark and brand protection matters, including monitoring for potential infringement, responding to third-party claims, and counseling on product naming and go-to-market materials.
• Partner with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance team to build privacy-by-design practices into product development and ensure compliance with global data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, and equivalents) and standards.
• Partner with the Security and Privacy teams on incident response, vulnerability remediation, and customer security obligations, advising on notification obligations, regulatory reporting requirements, and customer communications.
• Monitor and advise on relevant regulatory, compliance, and legal developments impacting the product, including AI, privacy, and export compliance, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate them into actionable guidance.
• Help develop scalable legal workflows that support rapid product iteration and growth.

• Law degree and member in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Exceptional academic performance and training, including law degree from a highly ranked law school (e.g., Top 30) and/or experience at a top-tier law firm in the technology space.
• 4 to 8 years of experience, preferably with a meaningful mix of Big Law and in-house at a technology company.
• Located in the United States.
• Currently in an in-house product counsel role at a technology company, or a commercial or IP counsel role with meaningful product-facing experience.
• Strong command of the core product legal disciplines: privacy (GDPR, CCPA), IP, open-source licensing, and product terms and commercial structures, with working familiarity with AI/ML issues.
• Excellent judgment and business orientation — able to translate complex legal risk into practical product advice.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-growth environment.
• Experience at a SaaS company, particularly in databases, data infrastructure, or data platforms.
• Hands-on experience advising on product-related AI regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, state AI legislation) or training data governance.

This is an incredible opportunity to join a fast growing and highly valued emerging company supporting the development of core technology in a transformational era.

Compensation is targeted at an annual base salary of $250,000 to $275,000, plus equity, and generous benefits. The total compensation package will vary and depend on the candidate’s level of seniority, number of years of directly relevant experience, and geographic location.

Solutus has been selected as the retained representative on this desirable search. Resumes submitted directly to our client will be forwarded to Solutus for review and evaluation.