Senior Product Manager and Counsel, Privacy & Governance

At Relyance AI, we are redefining how organizations manage privacy, security, and AI governance in a dynamic, data-driven world. We are seeking a Sr. Product Manager and Counsel – Privacy & Governance who can uniquely bridge product leadership and legal expertise to drive innovation while ensuring compliance across global regulatory frameworks.

This hybrid role blends strategic product ownership with legal counsel responsibilities, ensuring that privacy, governance, and security are deeply embedded into product development, customer experience, and organizational processes.

Responsibilities
Product Leadership

Own the full product lifecycle — from conception and requirements gathering through design, build, launch, and continuous iteration.
Partner with cross-functional leaders and engineering teams to define and deliver the privacy and governance roadmap, ensuring alignment with customer needs, regulatory trends, and company strategy.
Collaborate with engineering, design, and GTM teams to embed privacy-by-design and security-by-design across all product lines.
Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into scalable features, frameworks, and automated workflows.
Drive execution by writing clear requirements, prioritizing backlogs, and working with engineering to deliver high-quality features on time.
Act as a customer-facing product expert, engaging with CISOs, DPOs, legal teams, and regulators to gather insights and continuously refine product strategy.
Measure adoption and outcomes post-launch, ensuring products deliver tangible value and inform the next iteration.
Product Counsel
Serve as embedded legal advisor across the product lifecycle, from design to launch and operations.
Monitor and interpret global privacy, data protection, AI, and security regulations (GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, NIST, etc.) and translate them into product requirements.
Draft and negotiate privacy policies, terms of service, data processing agreements, and vendor/AI governance obligations.
Collaborate on Incident Response planning and execution: codify obligations, define escalation paths, and ensure regulator-ready documentation.
Advise on product risk (APIs, misconfigurations, AI data use) and support remediation that shapes the roadmap.
Support IP strategy (patents, trademarks, licensing) for product innovations.
Partner with customer-facing teams to deliver clear, legally vetted communications during incidents.
Program Development & Compliance
Build and scale Relyance’s privacy and governance programs, including risk assessments (PIAs, DPIAs, TIAs), data mapping, and automated RoPA generation.
Partner with engineering and security teams to operationalize continuous compliance monitoring and reduce audit readiness overhead.
Lead cross-functional enablement by educating internal teams on privacy, AI governance, and compliance-by-design.
Qualifications
Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and an active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Proven experience in product management or closely aligned roles in the B2B SaaS industry, ideally at the intersection of law, privacy, and technology.
Deep understanding of global privacy laws, AI regulations, and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI, NIST, EU AI Act).
Demonstrated ability to translate legal requirements into actionable product features and to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders.
Strong strategic thinking, execution ability, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Bonus Points
Certification such as CIPP/E, CIPM, or CIPT (IAPP) or equivalent privacy/security credentials.
Prior experience with AI/ML governance, adversarial risk management, or model compliance.
Track record of intellectual property advisory in the technology sector.


Working at Relyance AI

At Relyance AI, we create an unreasonably hospitable and data-driven culture. We prioritize exceeding customer, and each other’s, expectations in every interaction. This means empowered team members solving problems proactively based on information, crafting personalized experiences, and radiating enthusiasm. Behind the scenes, trust and freedom allow team members to find creative solutions, while shared purpose and recognition fuel a spirit of greatness to truly wow customers and each other. We deconstruct failures to learn from them and take great pride in our successes; celebrating both.

Relyance AI is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate representation and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We use data-driven pay practices with the goal of ensuring offerings are competitive to the market and our team members are being compensated correctly based on their roles, experience, and location. As such, the base salary pay range for this role is $175,000 to $195,000.