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About the Role
Progress is seeking a qualified and experienced Product Counsel to provide advice and support on product design, development, release, marketing, data protection, security, and compliance. This role involves partnering with multiple innovative product teams globally to ensure products and services align with business strategy while complying with international regulations.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with product management, engineering, design, product marketing, support, operations, and compliance teams to advise on complex legal, regulatory, and compliance issues for cloud services.
- Advise on requirements throughout a product's life cycle, including design, development, marketing, public relations, launch, distribution, and related regulatory concerns.
- Support the sales cycle by developing and managing agreement options, answering questions, providing documentation, facilitating sales execution, and negotiating agreements.
- Serve as a liaison and identify issues for other legal team members regarding product teams, including intellectual property, privacy, security, and trade compliance.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. and international laws and regulations, and company policies on intellectual property, privacy, security, trade compliance, and other applicable laws.
- Analyze, structure, draft, and negotiate technology development, licensing, and commercial agreements, and provide ongoing legal counseling on intellectual property, technology, and licensing.
- Review, draft, and advise on advertising and marketing materials, including press releases, packaging, product launch collateral, sweepstakes, promotions, and related items.
- Conduct training for the legal team and internal teams.
Requirements
- Law degree required.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant in-house experience as a product counsel, preferably in the technology industry, with a focus on software, SaaS, and cloud offerings.
- Significant experience with intellectual property, licensing, privacy, and trade compliance in the technology sector.
- Ability to communicate effectively with product managers and engineers and apply legal principles based on understanding of technology architectures and principles.
- Ability to multi-task, work independently in a fast-paced environment, and interface with internal departments and all levels of management.
- Maintain current understanding of best practices related to legal issues in product development and marketing for technology companies.
- Experience with HIPAA compliance is highly desired.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills.
- Prior product counseling experience with a technology company.
- Startup mindset – highly passionate, team player, high sense of urgency, willingness to roll up sleeves and ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced business.
- Excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, well-honed analytical skills, and strong project management skills.
- Strong technical skills with a continuous learning mindset to develop a deeper understanding of the business.
Skills
- Intellectual property
- Licensing
- Privacy
- Trade compliance
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Organizational skills
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Project management
- Technical skills
Location
- Burlington, MA
- Raleigh, NC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant in-house experience
Education Level
- Law degree
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $132,000
- Eligible to participate in our performance-based annual corporate bonus plan.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Optional benefits such as critical illness/hospital indemnity/personal accident, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal insurance, and pet insurance.
- Competitive salary and incentive compensation opportunities, including bonus or uncapped commission (as applicable to the position)
- Best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) featuring a 27-month lookback.
- Flexible paid vacation time
- Paid day off for your birthday
- Company holidays
- Variety of leave programs, including Parental Leave.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee well-being resources focused on physical, mental, social, and financial health.
About the Company
- Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) is the trusted provider of software that enables customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.
- We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress.