Senior Product and Commercial Counsel

San Francisco Bay AreaFull-time$180k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-11

Core

Senior legal counsel responsible for commercial negotiations, product and privacy advisory, and shaping business decisions for a database platform.

Role type

Senior in-house counsel (product & commercial)

Builds

Commercial agreements, privacy frameworks, and business strategy for a database platform

Domain

Technology / Database / SaaS

Required skills

legal judgment, business acumen, negotiation, drafting, privacy/data protection expertise, technology understanding, independent decision-making

Preferred skills

SaaS/cloud infrastructure in-house experience, cross-functional advisory (Sales/Marketing/Engineering/Security), AI/open source/IP licensing knowledge, enterprise customer support experience

Technologies

Postgres, Vitess, MySQL

Responsibilities

Lead complex commercial negotiations, advise on product and privacy matters, work directly with leadership on business-shaping decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About PlanetScale

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgresQL and Vitess clusters. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads — without sacrificing developer experience. We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help build it from scratch.