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Product Counsel

Skydio· Operations
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$212k - $290kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Product Counsel to join Skydio’s Legal team, providing legal support across IP, compliance, and commercial for product development, with collaboration across software engineering, marketing, and business teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • You hold a JD and are admitted to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
  • You have 5+ years of legal experience in a top firm or company
  • You have experience with both hardware and software
  • 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

Skills

Required:JD or equivalent law degreeExperience with hardware and softwareLegal triage and prioritizationCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:International, federal, state and local government experienceFAA Part 107 certification

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
  • relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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A family of flying robots.

AI-powered autonomous drones for Drone as First Responder (DFR), critical infrastructure inspection, tactical ISR, site security, surveying and mapping

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