Senior Product Counsel | United States | Remote

Grafana Labs

1d•Remote

About The Position

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to join our dedicated, collaborative, and fast-growing legal team. The primary responsibility of the Senior Product Counsel will be to serve primarily as legal advisor to the Grafana Labs product and engineering teams regarding feature development, product launches, and strategy. This critical role will also support broader legal matters, which may include non-standard licensing deals, privacy, and other cross-functional matters. The successful candidate will be a creative and analytical thinker who is highly detail oriented and embraces a business-oriented approach, with the ability to think strategically and establish a trusted advisor relationship with internal stakeholders.

Requirements

JD and bar admission in good standing in at least one state in the U.S.
5+ years of technology related in-house legal experience with a software company (preferably in the SaaS industry)
8+ years of experience as a practicing attorney
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Ability to maintain strong relationships with internal clients, with high level of client service
Significant experience with data protection laws, open source, and AI regulation
Experience negotiating non-standard and strategic licensing agreements
Ability to balance risk mitigation with business speed
Ability to distill and prioritize complex and urgent matters
Sound business acumen and with ability to recognize and balance risk appropriately
Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills

Responsibilities

Conduct legal risk assessments for product features throughout the feature lifecycle
Review, advise, and negotiate a variety of agreements, including complex inbound and outbound licenses, data processing (GDPR, CCPA), information security, and other technology related agreements
Develop scalable product review processes and legal playbooks
Collaborate with cross-functional business teams on legal, regulatory, and corporate matters, such as licensing, data protection and privacy, and other matters.
Partner closely with security and privacy teams on proactive program building as well as reactive responses
Advise on governance and commercialization of AI features
Contribute to the development of workflows and processes needed to efficiently scale the legal team, including usage of AI tools for productivity
Assist with efforts around privacy-by-design, and security-by-design
Assess IP risk associated with third-party software and embedded technologies
Draft and negotiate complex software license agreements (OEM, white-label, embedded use, distribution models)
Partner with the commercial legal team to ensure alignment between product capabilities and contractual commitments.

Benefits

100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. We will comply with local legislation where applicable.