Product Counsel

Available Locations: Austin, TX, Washington D.C., San Francisco, CA
About this job
Cloudflare is seeking a lawyer with a passion for new technologies to join the Product Counsel team. The Product Counsel team serves as the frontline legal contact and helps solve some of the company's thorniest issues. As a member of the team, you'll wear many hats and lead cross-functional projects with meaningful impact. The ideal candidate brings deep enthusiasm for innovative technology and the ability to collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business teams throughout the software development and commercialization lifecycle.
This role requires drafting and negotiating the technology transactions that fuel our products, such as our AI inference offerings. Through this work, you will help evaluate novel legal questions and craft practical solutions at the frontier of law and technology.
As a member of the Product Counsel team, you will also support privacy-by-design reviews, document data flows for responsible AI counseling, and partner with the commercial legal team to address complex customer inquiries.
In this role, you will:

• Translate complex legal analysis into clear, actionable guidance for fast-moving product and engineering teams.
• Proactively assess legal risks and advise product, engineering and business teams building services that reshape how information moves across the Internet-and the laws that govern it.
• Review and architect legal frameworks for technology transactions related agreements, such as, technology partner agreements, inbound IP licensing agreements, and marketplace arrangements for Cloudflare's developer platform.
• Review marketing event agreements and support Cloudflare's team with promotions and sweepstakes.
• Draft terms of service, disclosures, policies, and related processes.
• Apply privacy-by-design principles and partner with the privacy team on data-flow reviews, PIAs, and other privacy deliverables.
• Solicit invention disclosures, support patent strategy, and protect Cloudflare's trade secrets.
• Partner with product and marketing teams on product marketing collateral and claim substantiation.
• Build and refine processes that enable the Legal team to scale effectively as Cloudflare continues to expand.
• Engage externally on behalf of Cloudflare in areas where you are a subject matter expert.

Job qualifications

• • JD degree with strong academic credentials and admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 3+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, preferably with technology companies. Prior experience with Internet security and infrastructure companies is desired.
  • Technical background / expertise is highly desired. While a science or technical degree is not a prerequisite for this job, a passion for technologies is.
  • Experience with copyright law and Internet law is desired (e.g., AI Act, Data Act, net neutrality, DMCA, CFAA).
  • Strong communication skills and cooperative team player. Lead with empathy and understanding while embracing diverse points of view. Flexibility to adapt and thrive in a fast paced environment.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally, with lawyers and non-lawyers, to establish effective solutions efficiently and in an amenable manner.
  • Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage many tasks on complex projects. Experience with Jira or other project management solutions is desired.

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $158,000 - $217,000
• For D.C. Area based hired: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $207,000

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave