Director, Product Legal (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in San Jose, California; Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania; Waltham, Massachusetts; Wichita, Kansas; or Morrisville, North Carolina, United States. Most roles have in-office and/or in-person expectations.

Salary: $227,800–$308,000 USD annually; final compensation depends on location, qualifications, experience, and education.

Company

hirify.global delivers enterprise data infrastructure, unified storage, integrated data services, cloud storage, and solutions supporting traditional workloads, AI, and multicloud environments.

What you will do

• Partner with product management, engineering, business leadership, and multiple product organizations across on-premises storage, cloud services, and hybrid cloud offerings.
• Provide strategic legal guidance throughout product conception, design, development, launch, commercialization, support, and end-of-life.
• Draft, structure, review, and negotiate inbound technology transactions, software licenses, cloud agreements, technology acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint development agreements, and OEM arrangements.
• Advise on enterprise agreements, licensing, intellectual property, compliance, data usage, privacy by design, open-source software, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
• Translate complex technical and legal issues into practical guidance, identify risks, and support business objectives.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of legal professionals while remaining involved in complex legal matters.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 10–12+ years of substantial, relevant legal experience supporting technology products, product counseling, and complex technology transactions, including significant inbound technology agreements.
• Experience advising enterprise-focused B2B technology organizations delivering enterprise products, cloud services, stand-alone software, SaaS, or hybrid cloud solutions in a global environment.
• Extensive experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex inbound technology agreements and understanding contractual, licensing, compliance, and commercial considerations for enterprise customers.
• Ability to work directly with engineering, product management, and technical leadership teams, with sufficient technical fluency to advise independently on sophisticated product and technology matters.
• Prior people-management experience, including coaching, mentoring, and developing legal professionals.
• Experience independently managing complex legal matters and advising senior business stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation, communication, relationship-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a practical and business-enabling approach to legal risk.
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and their implications for enterprise technology products.

Nice to have

• Experience in both a major law firm and an in-house legal department within a technology organization.
• Experience supporting cloud-first, software-first, or enterprise infrastructure technology companies and working with hyperscalers or enterprise cloud providers.
• Experience supporting complex product launches, technology integrations, evolving business models, and both cloud-based and on-premises products and services.
• Experience developing legal talent and partnering with highly technical teams.
• Experience with intellectual property, open-source licensing, data rights, and emerging technology issues in enterprise product environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment with in-office and/or in-person expectations communicated during the recruitment process.
• Health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase opportunities, and/or restricted stock units, subject to regional variation.
• Culture emphasizes initiative, impact, ownership, collaboration, flexibility, inclusion, and professional growth.
• Benefits and employment conditions are governed by applicable local laws, regulations, and company policies.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed only when submitted through the hirify.global company website; emailing employees, recruiters, or Human Resources does not influence consideration.
• Some hiring stages may use AI-assisted evaluation tools alongside human decision-making. Candidates may request an alternative process by emailing a resume and job ID with “Data Privacy Request” in the subject line.