About the position
At its core, Notion builds software that empowers customers to solve their own problems. We deliver customers, creators, and developers a set of building blocks that enables them to make software the way they want for their use cases. As such, Notion can be used for almost anything: for writing and sharing docs, as a wiki, for managing projects and tasks, and more. We’re looking for a practical and agile lawyer to join Notion’s Legal Team. As part of the Product Legal team, you will be exposed to a wide variety of issues as we work cross-functionally with multiple departments, including Engineering, Product, Business Development, AI, Design, Security, Brand and Marketing, and Customer Experience. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a product legal program to help Notion meet its ambitious goals. This role is based in either our San Francisco or New York office.
Responsibilities
- Serve as one of the first points of contact for legal issues throughout the product development lifecycle and provide practical day to day and strategic advice to the engineering, product, and business development teams.
- Work with cross-functional teams to build scalable processes to provide products that our customers can trust.
- Support the readiness and release of products and features by identifying and driving resolution of issues related to privacy, data security, marketing, competition, intellectual property, and other legal and regulatory areas.
- Develop and deliver training and communications relating to legal issues related to product development.
- Address a variety of issues of first impression and other special projects as needed.
Requirements
- A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and admission to the California or New York bar or ability to be registered as in-house counsel in California or New York.
- 8+ years of legal experience, including at least 2 years practicing as a product attorney within a software technology company.
- Experience counseling product and engineering teams through the product development lifecycle from conception to launch and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the software industry.
- Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative and pragmatic ways to facilitate clear and open communication at all levels of the organization.
- Strong communication skills and cooperative team player. Lead with empathy and understanding while embracing diverse points of view, to build meaningful relationships and trust with internal partners, clients, and leaders.
- Resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to make recommendations and decisions with imperfect facts and document decisions in written form.
- Independent and strategic thought combined with excellent team player qualities (no job is too small or too large) and a willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
- Demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence solutions in a work setting.
- Proven track record building new or improving existing programs or processes.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Change is a constant at Notion.
Nice-to-haves
- Prior experience with a fast-growing start-up, a SaaS company, or are eager to contribute in such an environment.
- Technical background.
- Intellectual Property, Regulatory, or Privacy experience.
- Familiarity using Notion.
Benefits
- Highly competitive cash compensation
- Equity
- Benefits
