Senior Product Counsel

ClickHouse is seeking an experienced product counsel to join as an early member of ClickHouse's elite and business-focused Legal team. You will be responsible for supporting ClickHouse's 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, with particular focus on AI, privacy, and data issues. 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.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Become a founding member of the product legal team, serving 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 and evolving product features, with a particular focus on AI/ML (including training data, model outputs, IP ownership, and regulatory frameworks), data privacy, intellectual property, and open-source software.
• Advise on, draft, and review technology licensing and integration partnership agreements with strategic product and ecosystem partners.
• 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, 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.

What You Bring Along: 

• 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 a product counsel role, or a role with significant product counsel responsibility (e.g., product/commercial or product/privacy hybrid).
• Strong command of the core product legal disciplines: AI/ML issues, privacy (GDPR, CCPA), open-source licensing, and IP.
• 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.

Bonus Points: 

• 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.
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