Senior Product Counsel, Stack Overflow
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Public Q&A platform for developers
Open for applications
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help coders help each other become better coders by sharing their knowledge with one another.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years relevant experience with a JD from a top law school; admitted to the Bar
- Experience with SaaS and community platforms
- Experience negotiating and drafting licensing agreements, including API agreements
- Strong legal research skills and comfort tackling new and developing areas of law in the US and internationally
- Superior organizational skills and attention to detail
- Enthusiasm and passion for technology, law, and business
- Eagerness and drive to continue learning
- Sense of humor
What the job involves
- As Senior Product Counsel, you’ll get to work with a variety of teams including the Product and Engineering teams. You will need extensive experience working with and counseling product teams, excellent judgment in balancing legal risks with business strategy, a proven ability to learn new areas of law at a rapid pace, and be able to function independently in a demanding environment. You will use your drive and experience to make a big impact on the business
- Advise multiple stakeholders across product, engineering, and business development throughout the product development cycle (from the initial stages of product development, through launch, to market strategy) on a broad range of best practices and compliance issues regarding Stack Overflow’s platform and ads products
- Understand and stay up to date on U.S. and international laws and regulations related to platforms and software and an ability to explain complex legal issues in basic terms for the company
- Provide pragmatic day to day and strategic advice to minimize legal risks while advancing business goals and initiatives
- Ability to draft clear and concise public facing disclosures, disclaimers, terms of use or other public facing documents for our customers
- Manage internal projects, training, processes, and drive cross-functional efforts to successful completion
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This seems likely to take the form of growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its teams platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement up to $5,250, professional development budget of up to $2,500 for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company values
- Adopt a customer-first mindset
- Be flexible and inclusive
- Be transparent
- Empower people to deliver outstanding results
- Keep community at our center
- Learn, share, grow
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Prasanth Chandrasekar
(CEO & Board Member, not founder)Previously a VP of Barclay's Investment Bank, then worked his way through various senior level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of cloud and infrastructure services.
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