Product & Privacy Counsel

#### **About Supabase** Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. #### **About the Role** We’re looking for a **Product and Privacy Counsel** to join our Legal team and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Go To Market, and Leadership. This person will help Supabase ship products faster while managing legal, privacy, regulatory, compliance and open source risk thoughtfully. You’ll work on product counseling, open source licensing, privacy and compliance reviews, product launch guidance, customer facing terms, and internal legal frameworks that help the company scale. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys working with technical teams, is comfortable in ambiguity, and can turn complex legal issues into practical business guidance. #### **What You’ll Be Responsible For** - Act as primary counsel for product and engineering teams from concept through launch - Advise on legal issues related to product development, data usage, privacy, security, AI, integrations, and APIs - Partner with Engineering and Product on privacy, AI and compliance questions - Build scalable product launch review processes, legal checklists, internal guidance, and playbooks - Own and drive, global privacy, data protection, and AI governance strategy, including regulatory compliance across relevant jurisdictions - Advise on global privacy, regulatory, and compliance considerations related to Supabase products - Support customer and GTM teams on privacy related contract issues, product terms, security and privacy questions, and enterprise risk reviews - Help develop and maintain legal frameworks for AI and data usage, product claims, third party integrations, and partner and customer facing commitments - Partner cross functionally with Security, Finance, Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and People as Supabase scales - Serve as a key legal voice on cross-functional leadership decisions, including on matters of regulatory risk, privacy posture, and product strategy #### **What You Have** - 8 to 12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house privacy counsel experience preferably at global SaaS organizations handling sensitive customer data - Strong experience advising technical product, SaaS, cloud, developer tools, data, AI, security, or infrastructure teams - Working knowledge of privacy, data protection, and product compliance - Ability to translate legal risk into practical, business minded recommendations - Strong written communication and async collaboration skills - Experience building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, or product review frameworks - Licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction - Track record of operating with meaningful autonomy and contributing to legal function leadership #### **Nice to Haves** - Experience at a globally operating open source, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, database, AI, data, or security company - Privacy certification such as CIPP/E or CIPP/US - Experience with AI and data governance, model and data usage rights, or emerging product compliance issues - Experience supporting enterprise SaaS customers or security and privacy reviews #### **What You Are** - Business minded and pragmatic - Product oriented, not just risk oriented - Clear, concise, and comfortable communicating with technical teams - Self directed and comfortable working async - Good at simplifying complexity - Comfortable with ambiguity and fast moving product decisions - High judgment, low ego, and willing to build the practical systems that help legal scale #### **What We Offer** - **Fully Remote** We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use