Director, Product Foundations

About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

About the Role:

Vercel is hiring a Director of Product Foundations to build the legal foundations that enable our product velocity at scale. The core priority for this role is leading privacy and regulatory matters on the legal team; you will also oversee IP and litigation. You will report to Vercel’s VP of Legal and partner closely with Security, Trust & Safety, and GRC, as well as product, engineering and other teams. This role is based in SF where we have a 3 day/week in-office requirement.

What You Will Do:

• Lead Vercel’s privacy program, regulatory strategy and frameworks, IP strategy, litigation, and the legal team’s incident response processes
• Translate complex requirements into business-oriented, actionable guidance so product teams can continue to ship fast
• Build scalable programs using policies, playbooks, templates, trainings, and AI

About You:

• California Bar admission or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel exception and in good standing.
• 12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful product counseling, privacy, and/or regulatory experience in-house at a high-growth technology company serving enterprise customers
• Strong understanding of AI, cloud services, and general b2b SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS business practices and relevant global regulatory requirements
• Strong judgment and creativity around risk-assessment and mitigation. Able to make decisions with imperfect facts...