Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Director and Associate General Counsel remit sits at the intersection of product development and regulatory change, a core pressure point for modern SaaS. With responsibility spanning privacy, security, IP, and AI-adjacent risk, the role reflects how subscription software companies increasingly treat legal as part of the product surface area, not a downstream checkpoint. Reporting into the General Counsel also signals proximity to enterprise-level decision making that often shapes roadmap, data practices, and go-to-market constraints.
For a SaaS legal career, the long-term value is in building repeatable frameworks that scale across releases, regions, and customer segments. Leading a team while partnering with product, engineering, and security creates exposure to the full product lifecycle, from design reviews through launch and incident response. The emphasis on translating multi-jurisdictional requirements into practical guidance is especially transferable across SaaS companies operating globally.
This role tends to fit a senior legal leader who prefers cross-functional influence over purely transactional work, and who enjoys turning complex doctrine into operating mechanisms. It also suits someone comfortable advising executives while developing a team and an IP and privacy program in parallel.
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.
