Product Counsel - Senior Corporate Counsel (Data Products)

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Precisely is the leader in data integrity. We empower businesses to make more confident decisions based on trusted data through a unique combination of software, data enrichment products and strategic services. What does this mean to you? For starters, it means joining a company focused on delivering outstanding innovation and support that helps customers increase revenue, lower costs and reduce risk. In fact, Precisely powers better decisions for more than 12,000 global organizations, including 95 of the Fortune 100. Precisely's 2500 employees are unified by four company core values that are central to who we are and how we operate: Openness, Determination, Individuality, and Collaboration. We are committed to career development for our employees and offer opportunities for growth, learning and building community. With a "work from anywhere" culture, we celebrate diversity in a distributed environment with a presence in 30 countries as well as 20 offices in over 5 continents. Learn more about why it's an exciting time to join Precisely!

Precisely is an AI-first organization. All employees are expected to demonstrate proficiency in applying AI tools to accelerate their work, improve output quality, and eliminate low-value tasks. Candidates should be comfortable using generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) in their day-to-day workflows, able to evaluate AI-generated outputs critically, and open to continuously adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge.

Overview: Given the rising importance of using AI tools and agents, trusted data is more important than ever—better data means better decisions. We are seeking a motivated Senior IP Tech & Product Counsel to provide strategic legal guidance and support to Precisely’s dynamic, innovation-driven, global organization on a variety of intellectual property, technology product development, and product licensing issues, with a particular focus in data products and data licensing. This role partners closely with our supplier, product (engineering, product management, and data product), marketing, commercial, compliance, privacy, legal and security teams to ensure that our products, services and platforms are designed, deployed, contracted and marketed in compliance with IP, data, and regulatory requirements as well as business needs. The ideal candidate will appropriately balance risk while optimizing business growth in providing legal guidance to our global commercial teams and through analysis and negotiation of technology and data licensing related agreements. Additionally, this exciting role includes collaborating with internal business partners, and advising on existing and new product, feature and data development, from conception to pilot to launch, requiring a global mindset and in-depth knowledge of IP law, data licensing, AI/ML issues, open-source, open data, software and digital technology issues. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to combine strong business acumen with advanced negotiation capabilities for technology related agreements, balance legal risk with speed-to-market, as well as show the ability to influence product strategy through technology and data fluency and a nuanced understanding of IP and data issues.

What you will do:

As Senior IP Tech & Product Counsel with Precisely, you will play a key role in closing deals with our Supplier, Partner and client-facing teams as well as working with our Legal counterparts, Products, Marketing, and other departments for product counseling, data, and Intellectual Property matters, key responsibilities including:

Intellectual Property & Data Counseling

Draft, negotiate, and advise the business on a variety of agreements and IP and technology clauses and legal issues in supplier, partner, and customer technology and data related agreements, including various supplier/partner terms (reseller, comarketing, co-selling, OEM, and more), data use, data licensing, AI/ML, software on-prem and SaaS platforms, IP development, IP ownership/licensing, and other commercialization of IP and license grants, based on an understanding of the products, data, business and customer objectives, required flow down obligations, and legal positions.

Draft, negotiate and advise on various technology-related agreements from open source software licenses, open data licenses, EULAs, online terms (click-throughs, shrink-wraps, and other no-touch terms), SaaS and other cloud-based terms, AI/ML Addendums, EU Data terms, evaluation and beta trials, and other technology-regulation related terms.

Assist in drafting, maintaining, and training others in technology and data specific contract templates, fall back language, and legal positions, including provisions covering data licensing, data use, AI/ML, SaaS, IP ownership/licensing, assignment issues, SLAs, and risk provisions related to the same (warranties, indemnities, limitations on liability, insurance, remedies, wind-down and termination) across software, SaaS, support/service and data-driven products.

Assist on a variety of intellectual property matters, including trademarks, patents, trade-secrets, and copyright issues, including prosecution work with external and regional counsel, IP claims, licensing issues, as well as IP portfolio management and other IP work including assisting in developing and implementing IP strategies for proprietary technologies, algorithms, and data models.

Oversee open-source software (OSS) and open-data (OD) compliance, including license reviews, risk assessments, and developer guidance and training.

Advise on data acquisition, usage rights, data sharing agreements, and other data transfer mechanisms and licensing for structured and unstructured datasets.

Advise on and ensure compliance with data regulations (EU Data Act, EU AI Act) and cross-border data transfer requirements as well as provide guidance on AI/ML data training, model ownership, and output rights.

Assist with IP diligence in M&A, investments, and vendor selection; advise on IP assignments and transition services.

Product Counseling & Emerging Technology

Serve as a primary legal advisor for product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch.

Conduct risk assessments and regulatory compliance for new products, features, APIs, and integrations involving IP and data.

Support data monetization initiatives, including structuring agreements for data products and data-as-a-service (DaaS) offerings.

Assist with guidance on AI use, integration, and governance, including bias mitigation, transparency, and compliance with emerging AI regulations, with support from AI related counsel and manager.

Review product terms of service, EULAs, and developer agreements for IP and data issues, updates and compliance.

Partner with Privacy Counsel and Security teams to align product design with privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles.

Partner with Product Management, Marketing and Documentation teams on product UIs, disclaimers, EULAs/TOUs, branding, content, announcements, webpages, articles, customer interactions, product documentation and other product content.

Collaborate with Research & Development and Product teams to identify copyright and patent notifications, patentable inventions, manage trade secrets, and support patent filings with outside counsel.

Governance, Policy & Enablement