Legal Counsel - Product and Technology
Legal
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Legal Counsel to join our Product and Technology Legal team. This role requires expertise in product counseling, technology law, data privacy, intellectual property and AI. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, R&D, Marketing, and Security to ensure legal compliance, mitigate risks and protect IP.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of innovative technologies, such as AI and cloud-based platforms, while ensuring compliance with complex, evolving regulations. The ideal candidate will be adept at navigating complex legal landscapes, capable of handling multiple priorities, and skilled at scaling legal frameworks to support growth. If you join our team, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact on a rapidly growing company and contribute to achieving monday.com’s strategic goals.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Legal Counsel to join our Product and Technology Legal team. This role requires expertise in product counseling, technology law, data privacy, intellectual property and AI. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, R&D, Marketing, and Security to ensure legal compliance, mitigate risks and protect IP.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of innovative technologies, such as AI and cloud-based platforms, while ensuring compliance with complex, evolving regulations. The ideal candidate will be adept at navigating complex legal landscapes, capable of handling multiple priorities, and skilled at scaling legal frameworks to support growth. If you join our team, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact on a rapidly growing company and contribute to achieving monday.com’s strategic goals.
- Collaborate with Product and R&D teams to advise on legal aspects of product development, including AI, saas, technology and professional services and data governance.
- Identify and counsel on legal risks and provide practical guidance and mitigation strategies for new and existing products, features, and go-to-market initiatives.
- Draft, negotiate, and manage a variety of commercial agreements, including those related to technology, licensing, marketing and IP agreements.
- Provide expert legal advice on data privacy matters, working closely with privacy and security teams to maintain robust privacy compliance programs.
- Scale processes for managing and protecting the company’s intellectual property portfolio, including trademarks, copyrights, patents and design protection.
- Formulate strategies to prevent and address intellectual property infringements, including monitoring for violations and taking enforcement action where necessary.
- Support marketing activities by reviewing advertisements and social media content to ensure compliance with IP, privacy, and consumer protection laws.
- Implement compliance processes for AI in accordance with global legal and regulatory developments.
- Counsel on issues of data security, open-source licensing, and technology partnerships.
- Collaborate with various internal stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and compliance teams, to integrate legal advice into business decisions and product development.
- Communicate legal issues clearly and effectively to non-legal team members, ensuring alignment between legal requirements and business goals.
Your Experience & Skills
- Excellent Legal counsel with 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably as an in-house product counsel at a technology company.
- Deep understanding of global privacy, IP, marketing and AI regulations and experience in understanding implications and advising on issues relating these fields in a technology context.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong understanding of SaaS products, AI technologies, and the regulatory landscape affecting technology companies.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a simple and effective way to non-legal audiences.
- A collaborative, proactive mindset with a passion for technology.
- Ownership mentality with a can-do attitude.
- Strong legal and business judgment, exceptional attention to detail, and organizational skills.
- Highly motivated with outstanding communication, interpersonal skills, strategic thinking, and ability to collaborate across functions.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
We believe in equal opportunity.
monday.com is an equal opportunity employer and bans discrimination and harassment of any kind. monday.com is committed to the standard of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to creating and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.
All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of any personal characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, family or parental status, physical or mental disability or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where monday.com operates.
monday.com is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with any disabilities. If you think you may require accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to accommodations@monday.com.
All requests for accommodation are treated confidentially , as practical and permitted by law.
monday.com is an equal opportunity employer and bans discrimination and harassment of any kind. monday.com is committed to the standard of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to creating and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.
All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of any personal characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, family or parental status, physical or mental disability or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where monday.com operates.
monday.com is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with any disabilities. If you think you may require accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to accommodations@monday.com.
All requests for accommodation are treated confidentially , as practical and permitted by law.
Meet the Legal team
The legal team at monday.com takes an essential part in achieving the company’s business and strategic goals. The law does not always solve tomorrow’s problems and the monday.com’s legal team crafts innovative approaches for handling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. We collaborate with all teams, analyze risks, and provide practical advice and guidance to enable and empower all teams, from product, design and R&D through HR, marketing, sales and more, in adopting a compliant culture. monday.com does not view it as Compliance vs. Business, but rather a key component in enabling deals, building a trustworthy brand and having a good and healthy business.