Senior Counsel, Product & Data
The Legal team at Chainalysis advises the business on the legal and regulatory challenges of building innovative blockchain data and analytics solutions. Working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Commercial, and other teams, Legal helps Chainalysis innovate responsibly, manage risk, and support growth in a rapidly evolving industry.
The Senior Counsel, Product & Data will help shape the legal strategy for Chainalysis’ data and intelligence products. This role partners with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Research & Development to identify legal considerations early in product development and help influence the product roadmap. With a strong understanding of data from compliance, privacy, and intellectual property perspectives, the Senior Counsel will help teams address legal considerations as products are developed, rather than after they have shipped.
The role will advise on data sourcing, use, access, licensing, governance, and product development, while helping address issues such as role based access controls and data deletion following customer offboarding. This is an opportunity for an experienced technology lawyer to build trusted relationships across the business and contribute to the long term development of the product legal function.
In this role, you’ll:
- Advise throughout the product lifecycle, from early planning and development through launch and ongoing operation.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Research & Development to identify legal considerations early and help shape the product roadmap.
- Advise on data sourcing, collection, use, access, retention, deletion, licensing, and commercialisation.
- Assess data and intelligence products through compliance, privacy, intellectual property, and commercial perspectives.
- Help address product and data issues, including role based access controls and data deletion following customer offboarding.
- Advise on intellectual property, including copyright, trademarks, patents, IP protection, and third party rights.
- Advise on AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies in product development and data use.
- Partner with Privacy, Security, Compliance, and Commercial Legal colleagues on product related matters.
- Develop practical policies and processes to help teams identify and manage legal risks.
- Coordinate legal responses to product related incidents, complaints, and disputes.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and provide actionable guidance.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and contribute to the long term development of the product legal function.
We’re looking for candidates who have:
- A law degree and qualification to practise law in a relevant jurisdiction.
- Significant experience advising technology businesses, ideally in house at a mid sized technology company with data intensive products.
- Experience in product counselling, data related legal matters, intellectual property, or data licensing.
- Experience advising Product, Engineering, Data Science, or other technical teams.
- A strong understanding of how data is collected, managed, licensed, accessed, and used in commercial products.
- Experience assessing legal risks associated with data intensive products and emerging technologies.
- The ability to identify legal considerations early and balance risk with commercial objectives.
- Excellent judgement, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to manage complex matters independently and work collaboratively across teams.
Nice to have experience:
- In house product legal experience at a mid sized technology company with data intensive products.
- Experience at a comparable technology or intelligence business.
- Experience advising on data licensing, large scale data collection, data enrichment, or data driven products.
- Familiarity with blockchain technology or digital assets.
- Experience with AI governance, machine learning, or privacy frameworks such as GDPR or CCPA/CPRA.
- Experience with product related disputes, technology partnerships, or complex commercial agreements.
- Product litigation experience at a law firm, particularly involving technology, data, or intellectual property.
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions.