Senior Product Counsel, Grafana Labs
€145-175k
OTE
+ RSUs. Salary reflective of remote candidates in Ireland
The open and composable observability platform
Be an early applicant
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€145-175k
OTE
+ RSUs. Salary reflective of remote candidates in Ireland
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- JD and bar admission in good standing in at least one state in the U.S or the equivalent in your local residency
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, Grafana boasts over 25M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering experience at PalVision and iiNet.
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