Senior Counsel, Product & Privacy

The posting, as WEKA wrote it

Senior Counsel, Product & Privacy

About The Position

WEKA is transforming how organizations build, run, and scale AI and accelerated compute workflows with NeuralMesh™, our intelligent, adaptive mesh storage system. Unlike traditional data infrastructures, which become more fragile as compute environments grow and performance demands increase, NeuralMesh becomes faster, stronger, and more efficient as it scales, providing a flexible, adaptable foundation for enterprise and agentic AI innovation that maximizes GPU utilization, accelerates time to first token, and lowers the cost of innovation.

WEKA is a growth-stage company backed by world-class venture capital investors and AI infrastructure industry leaders. Our technology, purpose-built for AI, has garnered over 140 patents and is trusted by more than 30% of Fortune 50 enterprises, as well as the world's leading hyperscalers, neoclouds, and AI innovators. Our team is customer-obsessed and works accountably, boldly, and collaboratively to ensure their success. If we sound like your kind of people, join us!

About The Role

WEKA's General Counsel joined in 2025 as the company's first in-house lawyer, and a Senior Counsel focused on commercial contracting joined earlier this year. We are now hiring our third lawyer to own the product-facing side of the legal function: how WEKA builds and ships its technology, and how it handles data.

This is a true build role. WEKA is at the stage where its legal infrastructure needs to be built for scale, starting with a structured product review process and an upgraded privacy program that can grow with the company. You will build both alongside a hands-on GC rather than inherit a finished system.

You will report directly to the General Counsel and serve as the primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, and Security. Your work will center on two areas:

• Product counseling: building and running a risk-tiered legal review process for features and releases, so that Product and Engineering know when to involve Legal and can move quickly on routine launches.
• Privacy and data protection: upgrading WEKA's privacy program and building the infrastructure to scale it as the company grows, including the DPAs and security diligence that support customer deals.

You will work closely with the Senior Counsel, who owns commercial contracting and marketing review. You will be the subject-matter owner for the privacy, data, and product positions that show up in customer, neocloud, and partner agreements, and you will provide backup on commercial matters when the Senior Counsel's queue is at capacity. The ideal candidate is a practical, technically curious lawyer who enjoys working next to engineers, builds structure without bureaucracy, and gives clear answers rather than reflexive escalations.

Key Responsibilities

Product Counseling

• Build and run a risk-tiered legal review process (light, standard, and deep review) for product features and releases, incl

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EKA's privacy program and prioritize the highest-impact upgrades (such as updated privacy notices and policies, a standard DPA, and a subprocessor list), take ownership of escalated privacy and security diligence, and launch a lightweight product intake form and launch checklist with Engineering. From there, you will build out the remaining privacy program components and refine the review process as volume settles into a routine. You'll do this with a collaborative GC who is directly involved in strategy and complex matters, at a Series E company with strong product-market fit, over 140 patents, and significant growth ahead. WEKA offers competitive compensation including equity participation.

How We Work: The WEKA Way

• We are Accountable: We take full ownership, lead with integrity, and hold ourselves to the highest standards—even when things don't go as planned.
• We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and embrace debate as a fuel for innovation.
• We are Collaborative: We communicate with empathy and respect, lifting one another up to succeed collectively.
• We are Customer Centric: Every legal decision is driven by how we can better serve, support, and empower our customers to win.

USA Residents Only: The Total Compensation hiring wage range for this position which the Company reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position in the specified geographic areas or locations, is $190,000 - 230,000. Final compensation will be dependent on various factors relevant to the position and candidate such as geographical location, candidate qualifications, certifications, relevant job-related work experience, education, skillset and other relevant business and organizational factors, consistent with applicable law. In addition, the position may include some of the following comprehensive benefits such Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401(K), Flexible Time off (FTO), sick time, leave of absence as per the FMLA and other relevant leave laws.