Legal Counsel (IP & Product)

As a Legal Counsel (IP & Product Strategy), you will serve as a strategic partner to our engineering and product teams, providing guidance on patent strategy and the end-to-end development lifecycle. You will be responsible for defining the product vision and multi-year roadmap, translating company priorities, customer needs, and field feedback into a clear product direction. Your role also involves negotiating IP-heavy commercial agreements and advising on open-source compliance to safeguard the company’s proprietary technology.  You will have the opportunity to communicate priorities to executive leadership and stakeholders to ensure seamless business alignment. You will also leverage market insights, using data and analytics to guide prioritization and to measure the success of our product initiatives. Ultimately, you will bridge the gap between complex legal frameworks and technical execution, ensuring our competitive advantage is both protected and enforceable.

What You Will Do

Product Strategy Roadmap:

• Define and own product vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap
• Ability to translate company priorities, customer needs, and field feedback into clear product direction
• Identify opportunities to differentiate and growth in the storage, data infrastructure, and cloud environments

Business Alignment:

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service on positioning, enablement, and launch readiness
• Establish a process for planning, prioritization, and execution
• Communicate roadmap and priorities to executive leadership and stakeholders
• Experience with product teams and delivering complex products at scale

Market Insight:

• Monitor competitive overviews, industry trends, and emerging technologies to inform strategy
• Engage in IP review of customer contracts
• Use data and analytics to guide prioritization and to measure success

What You Will Bring

• JD from an ABA-accredited law school and admitted to a U.S. state bar organization for the jurisdiction where the candidate is working and in good standing
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience a plus
• Registration before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a plus
• Outstanding analytical and legal skills, including thorough knowledge of technical marketing, product certification and compliance, software including open-source, and general intellectual property law 
• Strong technical competency including the ability to understand software and hardware concepts and discuss fluently with product marketing, engineers, and developers
• Excellent project management and organization skills and ability to work to a deadline
• Comfortable and effective in presenting complex information to senior executives including Engineering / Marketing Management and Field GTM / Sales teams
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to balance technical feasibility, customer value, and business impact

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