Product Counsel

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! </span></p> </div></div><p><strong>Available Locations: Austin, TX, Washington D.C., San Francisco, CA</strong></p> <p><strong>About this job</strong></p> <p>Cloudflare is seeking a lawyer with a passion for new technologies to join the Product Counsel team. The Product Counsel team serves as the frontline legal contact and helps solve some of the company’s thorniest issues. As a member of the team, you’ll wear many hats and lead cross-functional projects with meaningful impact. The ideal candidate brings deep enthusiasm for innovative technology and the ability to collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business teams throughout the software development and commercialization lifecycle.</p> <p>This role requires drafting and negotiating the technology transactions that fuel our products, such as our AI inference offerings. Through this work, you will help evaluate novel legal questions and craft practical solutions at the frontier of law and technology.</p> <p>As a member of the Product Counsel team, you will also support privacy-by-design reviews, document data flows for responsible AI counseling, and partner with the commercial legal team to address complex customer inquiries.</p> <p><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Translate complex legal analysis into clear, actionable guidance for fast-moving product and engineering teams.</li> <li>Proactively assess legal risks and advise product, engineering and business teams building services that reshape how information moves across the Internet—and the laws that govern it.</li> <li>Review and architect legal frameworks for technology transactions related agreements, such as, technology partner agreements, inbound IP licensing agreements, and marketplace arrangements for Cloudflare’s developer platform.</li> <li>Review marketing event agreements and support Cloudflare’s team with promotions and sweepstakes.</li> <li>Draft terms of service, disclosures, policies, and related processes.</li> <li>Apply privacy-by-design principles and partner with the privacy team on data-flow reviews, PIAs, and other privacy deliverables.</li> <li>Solicit invention disclosures, support patent strategy, and protect Cloudflare’s trade secrets.</li> <li>Partner with product and marketing teams on product marketing collateral and claim substantiation.</li> <li>Build and refine processes that enable the Legal team to scale effectively as Cloudflare continues to expand.</li> <li>Engage externally on behalf of Cloudflare in areas where you are a subject matter expert.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Job qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li> <ul> <li>JD degree with strong ... (truncated, view full listing at source)