Product Counsel

Groq•Worth, IL

2d•$186,600 - $252,400

About The Position

Groq is hiring a Product Counsel to help build the legal foundation for developing, launching, and scaling AI infrastructure and applications responsibly. The role sits on the Legal team, which partners across the business as Groq scales GroqCloud™ services and expands offerings across IaaS, PaaS, and AI applications. The Product Counsel will build the product legal function from the ground up by creating processes, policies, and frameworks for product launches, adapting established practices to a high-growth company with support and mentorship from senior counsel. The Product Counsel will work closely with Product, Engineering, AI, Security, and Commercial Legal. The role covers product counseling and review; privacy, AI, data, cybersecurity, and consumer protection; product terms and policies; privacy and AI governance; security and customer trust matters; regulatory developments; and export controls and trade compliance. The position reports to the Senior Director, Commercial & Product Legal.

Requirements

4–6 years of legal experience at a top law firm, in-house, or both, with substantial exposure to product counseling, privacy, cybersecurity, or technology transactions.
A track record advising on AI/ML products, models, or data, including AI governance, model and data licensing, acceptable use, or AI regulatory compliance such as the EU AI Act.
Working knowledge of global privacy laws and emerging AI regulatory frameworks.
Familiarity with established product legal practices, including product review, privacy programs, AI governance, and customer trust commitments.
A builder’s mindset and enthusiasm for creating processes, templates, and programs from scratch with guidance from senior counsel.
Ownership and initiative, including the ability to handle day-to-day product questions independently and recognize when to escalate.
Growth orientation, receptiveness to feedback, and ability to learn quickly.
Pragmatic, commercially minded judgment and the ability to help teams find a path to yes.
Curiosity about AI and infrastructure technology and willingness to dig into technical details.
Clear, plain-language communication about legal risk and ability to earn stakeholder trust.
Composure in a fast-moving environment with limited direction and imperfect information, while balancing competing priorities and time-sensitive matters.
A JD or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution, plus active bar admission in good standing or other authorization to practice law.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud infrastructure or platform services (IaaS/PaaS), such as cloud service agreements, SLAs, or shared responsibility models.
Experience at an established cloud, infrastructure, semiconductor, or AI company.
Startup or high-growth company experience.

Responsibilities

Design the product review process, including intake, launch checklists, approval frameworks, and decision records.
Counsel Product and Engineering teams from early design through launch, identifying legal issues and providing practical, risk-appropriate advice.
Advise on product, privacy, AI, data, cybersecurity, and consumer protection law across IaaS, PaaS, and future AI application offerings, escalating novel or high-impact issues to senior counsel.
Work with Commercial Legal to align product functionality with customer commitments, contracting positions, disclosures, technical documentation, and marketing claims.
Draft and maintain cloud service terms, SLAs, the Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy, and developer terms.
Contribute to data mapping, privacy and AI risk assessments, shared responsibility models, and data residency work.
Advise on model licensing and open-weight model terms, customer data use, and intellectual property rights in inputs and outputs.
Partner with Security on incident response, breach notification analysis, vulnerability disclosure, and customer trust materials, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Track AI, privacy, and cloud regulatory developments, including the EU AI Act and U.S. federal and state law, and translate them into practical guidance and product roadmap input.
Advise on export controls and trade compliance for AI compute and cloud services.
Develop training, playbooks, and templates that help teams answer routine legal questions themselves.
Manage outside counsel on specialized matters.