Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
PagerDuty operates in a SaaS environment where product delivery, always-on infrastructure, and customer trust are tightly linked. A senior legal leader focused on Product & Privacy sits at the intersection of engineering, security, and go-to-market decision-making—areas where SaaS companies routinely face evolving regulatory expectations and heightened scrutiny around data handling and platform reliability.
For a SaaS legal career, the scope here signals durable, transferable leverage: advising across the product development lifecycle, shaping privacy programs that function globally, and building repeatable frameworks that scale with releases and new capabilities. The remit also touches IP portfolio stewardship and emerging considerations tied to AI, reflecting how modern SaaS counsel increasingly blends traditional legal work with operational design and risk-based product guidance.
This role tends to fit an attorney who prefers being embedded with technical stakeholders rather than operating purely as a reviewing function. It suits someone comfortable translating complex requirements into practical guardrails, coordinating across multiple functions, and leading a specialist team while partnering closely with senior executives on product direction and security posture.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
PagerDuty is seeking an exceptional attorney with deep product, IP, security and privacy expertise to lead the Product and Privacy legal team. This role requires a strategic legal partner who can navigate complex technical and regulatory landscapes while driving business innovation. This role reports directly to the General Counsel.
About You:
The successful candidate:
- Brings experience as a trusted legal advisor to senior product, security and engineering executives
- Excels at translating complex legal requirements into actionable business strategies, and designing scalable frameworks
- Energized by the opportunity to drive impact for the team and company.
- Possesses strong coordination across business teams to keep current on business activities and future plans.
- Has deep understanding of applicable laws and regulatory frameworks and can deftly apply legal requirements to help advise and draft policies and facilitate the implementation of products and processes.
Core Responsibilities:
You will lead and manage the Product & Privacy legal team, including managing PagerDuty's intellectual property portfolio, supporting the product, engineering and security teams, and managing our global privacy program. The position requires building strong relationships across the organization and creating systems and processes to support business goals. You will be advising stakeholders in developing and launching technology products to mitigate risk and maintain compliance in a fast moving environment, particularly in light of AI advancements, while also promoting business flexibility.
Must Have Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant legal experience with deep expertise in at least three of the following areas: Security, Privacy, IP, Commercial Contracts, Litigation, AI or Regulatory compliance.
- Prior experience advising throughout the product development lifecycle, covering security, privacy, intellectual property, contracts, regulatory compliance issues and more.
- Admitted into and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- Prior experience managing and developing successful teams.
- Proven ability to concisely communicate and explain critical legal decisions with context, building trusted executive relationships.
- Track record of successful implementation of cross functional strategy and creation of systems and processes to promote efficient scale of the organization.
- Deep understanding of U.S. and international privacy and security regulatory frameworks and ability to translate multi-jurisdictional requirements into practical legal guidance.
- Outstanding professional judgment and client service focus.
- Team player with a positive attitude and love of solving problems.
The base salary range for this position is 199,000 - 334,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.
Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.
