Director, Product Counsel

Details

Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. From our Bay Area roots to our growing global presence, we are on a mission to make high performance AI compute more accessible and affordable. When real-time AI is within reach, anything is possible. Build fast.

Mission

As Director, Product Counsel, you'll be the primary legal partner to our Product, Engineering, GRC, and InfoSec teams—shaping how Groq builds and delivers AI infrastructure products and services. You'll embed legal judgment across the entire product lifecycle, from architecture and platform design through customer commitments and regulatory strategy, enabling innovation while managing legal and compliance risk.

This is a builder's role. As Groq scales, you'll help establish the legal foundation, processes, and capabilities that support rapid growth—with the opportunity to grow and lead a team over time.

Location: Remote, US

Responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated legal advisor to Product and Engineering teams, contributing to roadmap planning, design reviews, and product launch processes.
• Advise on legal and regulatory considerations across GPU/LPU clusters, dedicated bare-metal and virtualized compute, cloud services, networking, storage, and managed AI platform offerings.
• Guide product decisions involving privacy, data governance, data handling, cross-border data transfers, and data residency requirements.
• Partner with technical teams to identify and address legal risk early in the product development lifecycle.
• Advise on AI-related legal issues, including model training data, inference outputs, intellectual property, copyright, and liability allocation.
• Review new features, platform capabilities, and service offerings prior to launch to assess legal, regulatory, and compliance implications.
• Partner with commercial legal colleagues on complex customer and partner transactions, including cloud services, infrastructure, HWaaS, master services, data processing, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Develop, maintain, and improve standard-form agreements, terms of service, acceptable use policies, and related legal frameworks supporting our cloud and AI platform offerings.
• Advise on global privacy, AI governance, and data protection requirements, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, U.S. state privacy laws, and emerging AI regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, and Business Development to support product launches, strategic initiatives, and customer-facing programs.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams on legal considerations related to FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks.
• Monitor and interpret emerging AI regulations and policy developments, translating legal requirements into practical product and business guidance.
• Advise on export control requirements, including EAR and ITAR considerations affecting compute infrastructure, cloud-delivered services, and international customers.
• Provide guidance on open-source software licensing and compliance across products and services.
• Build scalable legal processes, playbooks, and self-service resources that empower teams to move quickly while maintaining sound risk management.
• Manage outside counsel relationships and engagements as needed.
• Help shape the evolution of the legal function, and the team, as the company grows.

Requirements

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant work supporting technology products and commercial transactions.
• A track record of advising Product, Engineering, and business teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Deep knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, and related global regulations.
• Experience supporting hyperscaler, cloud infrastructure, AI platform, or other highly technical technology businesses.
• Familiarity with AI governance, emerging AI regulatory frameworks, and legal issues related to model development and deployment.
• Experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial agreements and strategic technology partnerships.
• Working knowledge of export control regulations and their application to cloud infrastructure, compute services, and international operations.
• Experience advising on open-source software licensing and intellectual property matters.
• A talent for translating complex legal requirements into practical, business-focused guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong business judgment, clear communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.
• A demonstrated ability to build scalable processes and balance growth with legal and regulatory risk.
• Comfort operating with a high degree of ownership, autonomy, and cross-functional influence.

Compensation & Benefits

• Total cash salary range (inclusive of potential bonus value) for U.S.-based candidates: $369,000 - $424,400 (individual placement determined by geographic location, experience, skills, and internal compensation standards).
• Groq currently offers a quarterly bonus as an interim alternative to equity, with plans to introduce long-term incentive program participation in the near future.
• Employees receive a robust suite of benefits.

US Job Posting / Export Control Notice

This position may require access to technology and/or information subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). To comply with these requirements, candidates for this role must meet certain citizenship or residency criteria. Specifically, they must qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder), or a protected individual under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) such as a refugee or asylee), or otherwise be eligible for an applicable export license.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment. Groq complies with all applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during the application and hiring process. For accommodation requests, contact [email protected] (application accommodations) or [email protected] for questions about AI tools used in hiring processes.