GitLab

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Job Description: • Advise product and engineering teams on legal issues across the product development lifecycle, flagging risks early and recommending practical paths forward. • Provide legal support for AI-related product development, including data retention practices, model vendor terms and acceptable use policies, opt-in flows, and customer-facing AI documentation. • Partner with procurement legal on vendor and product-related agreements, including reviews of AI model vendor contracts, partnership terms, and procurement escalations. • Support commercial legal with product and intellectual property (IP) guidance during customer negotiations, and help maintain field enablement materials as features evolve. • Counsel on open source licensing, including assessing license obligations for new dependencies and advising on upstream license changes that affect how GitLab builds and distributes software. • Draft, maintain, and improve legal templates, internal policies, and playbooks that enable teams to make consistent decisions with clear guidance. • Review product marketing materials for accuracy, and advise on advertising, trademark, and brand questions to ensure product claims are defensible and aligned with how features work. • Monitor changes in law and emerging legal risks, especially AI regulation, and propose process improvements that strengthen how GitLab ships and markets products responsibly. Requirements: • JD/LLB or local law degree equivalent and admission to state bar or analogous governing body. • Experience counseling product and engineering teams on matters across the software development lifecycle • Working knowledge of open source licensing concepts and how they apply to software development and distribution • Experience drafting, reviewing, and improving commercial agreements, templates, and internal policies, with the ability to give practical guidance that scales • Sufficient grounding in privacy frameworks to spot issues and partner effectively with privacy colleagues • Familiarity with legal issues related to AI product development and emerging AI regulation, and willingness to build expertise in new areas as regulations and product capabilities evolve • Ability to engage with technical and business stakeholders, communicate clearly in writing, and work effectively in a remote, globally distributed, asynchronous environment • Comfort using technology daily, learning new tools quickly, and improving workflows through clear documentation and process improvement Benefits: • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental leave • Home office support