Senior Product Counsel

Senior Product Counsel

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry's most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean's agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry's broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC's Disruptor 50, Bloomberg's AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner's Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we're helping the world's largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you're excited to shape how the world works, you'll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You'll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Product Counsel, reporting to the VP Legal. This role is focused on serving as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to Product and Engineering teams. We're looking for an attorney ready to guide the business on issues at the intersection of customer needs, legal risk, and business objectives.

This role will require collaboration with both our US and India-based Product and Engineering teams.

About the Role

• Support product and feature launches from inception to launch for your assigned collection.
• Successfully manage relationships with Product and Engineering team members and executives.
• Partner with subject matter experts and cross-functional teams to provide pragmatic legal counsel to the business, with a bias towards action.
• Advise on legal issues including IP, privacy, artificial intelligence, and compliance
• Advise on transactions with both partners and vendors, development partnerships, integrations, and much more.
• Have a strong background and practical experience and fluency with AI tools, including building workflows, skills, and agents.
• Have mentored or managed junior attorneys and is able to teach them a path to proficiency quickly.

About You

• 8+ years of experience in product counseling, IP, open source, IP litigation, and related areas at a software company, ideally in the AI and B2B SaaS space.
• Passion for building programs from scratch and being open to new ideas and feedback.
• Be able to communicate in a clear and understandable manner, i.e., no 'Legalese' when engaging with product and engineering teams.
• Background in a law firm and in-house legal team.
• Required Juris Doctor, with a license to practice law in your jurisdiction.
• Computer Science, BSEE, or other technical degree is preferred and programming experience is a bonus.
• Privacy qualifications (e.g., IAPP) are desirable also.
• Strong team player across geographies
• Cool and objective with the ability to communicate clearly under pressure

Location

• This role is hybrid in our San Francisco or Mountain View office

Compensation & Benefits:

The standard base salary range for this position is $235K - $255K annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We're committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.