San Mateo, California, United States · Remotefull time
Remote
mid
$212k–$290k
H1B: yes
Skydio The Product Counsel at Skydio provides legal counsel across IP, compliance, and commercial matters, working closely with engineering and product teams. This role shapes product legal strategy and ensures compliance across verticals.
Responsibilities
We’re seeking a Product Counsel to join Skydio’s world-class Legal team. This role demands general legal acumen across IP, compliance, and commercial, and the humility to know when to call for backup. In this role, you will work closely with our software engineering, marketing, and other technical and business teams and will be instrumental in shaping current and future products and ensuring product compliance across verticals at home and abroad.
This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, who values creativity, autonomy, and collaboration, who loves the product, and who likes to roll up their sleeves, own the outcome, and work shoulder-to-shoulder in the trenches with engineers and execs alike.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Help develop and execute product legal strategy across all products
Go-to counsel and lawyer for select teams like marketing, product, and software engineering
Build and foster relationships across the org, from software engineers to execs
Contribute to Skydio’s entrepreneurial culture by exploring fresh ideas, identifying risk areas, and finding smart, creative ways to address them
Adopt tools and create processes to automate, encourage self-service, and work efficiently
Become an expert in flying robots
What Makes You a Good Fit
You hold a JD and are admitted to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
Qualification
You thrive in collaborative settingsYou’re comfortable with ambiguityExperience with international
Required
You know how to triage and ruthlessly prioritize
You manage multiple projects with competing deadlines, maintaining a high standard of accuracy and follow-through
You thrive in collaborative settings, understanding that building strong relationships across departments is vital to success
You’re comfortable with ambiguity, eager to problem solve, and take the initiative to drive projects to completion
Experience with international, federal, state and local government as customers is ideal
Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions
