Product Counsel, TrendAI
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About the Role
Trend Micro is seeking a seasoned Product Counsel to support its global enterprise business, TrendAI, as a full-time, permanent member of the Trend Micro legal team. This is a senior individual contributor role embedded with the product and business teams in Taipei, providing substantive legal leadership across enterprise software and the privacy and regulatory frameworks that govern them.
The successful candidate will be a trusted legal partner to product, engineering, marketing, and business leadership - someone who has operated at this level before, knows how to influence without authority, and builds the kind of relationships that make the legal function a competitive advantage rather than a gate. Critically, this role sits within a global legal organization spanning multiple regions, and will require close, day-to-day collaboration with in-house counsel counterparts in other geographies to ensure consistent, coordinated legal support across TrendAI’s worldwide enterprise portfolio.
What You’ll Do
Product & Commercial Legal Support
Serve as the primary legal partner for TrendAI’s enterprise product and business teams, advising on product development, feature launches, go-to-market strategy, and commercial agreements from inception through execution.
Draft, review, and negotiate enterprise-facing agreements including EULAs, Terms of Service, subscription agreements, and platform partner contracts.
Draft, review and negotiate commercial vendor/partner agreements
Review in-app disclosures, consent flows, and marketing materials for legal accuracy and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
Identify and proactively address legal risk across the product roadmap, providing clear, business-oriented guidance that enables teams to move quickly without exposing the company to unnecessary exposure.
Privacy & Data Protection
Own enterprise privacy legal support for TrendAI globally, advising on applicable obligations across GDPR (EU/UK), CCPA/CPRA (California), APPI (Japan), PDPA (Taiwan/Thailand), and other applicable frameworks.
Review privacy notices, consent mechanisms, and data processing activities for new and existing features, ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance.
Advise on cross-border data transfer mechanisms and assist with data subject rights request workflows.
Collaborate with Privacy, Security, and Engineering teams on DPIAs, privacy-by-design implementation, and product incident response.
AI Governance & Emerging Technology
Provide legal guidance on consumer-facing AI features, including disclosures, automated decision-making notices, and compliance with the EU AI Act and other applicable AI regulations.
Monitor developments in AI and technology regulation across key enterprise markets and translate them into actionable advice for product and business stakeholders.
Support internal AI governance documentation and processes, including risk assessments, transparency reporting, and regulatory readiness.
Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Regional Collaboration
Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders across product, engineering, marketing, finance, and business development - acting as a go-to legal resource who understands the business and earns influence over time.
Work closely and collaboratively with in-house legal colleagues across Trend Micro’s global regions, including the Americas, EMEA, and other APAC markets, to ensure legal positions are consistent, coordinated, and informed by regional nuance.
Participate actively in cross-functional working groups, product reviews, and business planning sessions, providing timely, practical legal input that shapes decisions upstream rather than downstream.
Represent the legal function in senior leadership discussions, synthesizing complex legal issues into clear business context and recommended courses of action.
Outside Counsel & Legal Operations
Manage outside counsel relationships for enterprise matters, including engagement scoping, work product review, and budget oversight.
Develop and maintain legal templates, playbooks, and self-service guidance to improve efficiency and scale the legal function’s impact across the business.
Track legislative and regulatory developments in key enterprise markets and ensure relevant stakeholders are informed and prepared.
What You’ll Bring
Required
J.D. or equivalent law degree; license to practice law in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
8-10 years of legal experience with a substantial focus on consumer-facing software, mobile applications, or digital products - in-house experience at a technology company required.
Deep expertise in at least two major global privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, APPI) with demonstrated ability to advise across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
Extensive experience drafting and negotiating EULAs, Terms of Service, and consumer product agreements, with sound independent judgment on when to escalate versus resolve.
Demonstrated track record of building strong, trust-based relationships with senior business and product stakeholders - not just advising, but partnering.
Experience working as part of a global, cross-regional in-house legal team, with strong instincts for collaboration, consistency, and navigating different legal and cultural contexts.
Proven ability to manage outside counsel effectively, including scoping, quality control, and budget management.
Business-level proficiency in both Mandarin and English (written and spoken).
Fluency using AI tools as a routine part of legal work - for research, drafting, analysis, and process efficiency.
Preferred
Prior experience advising on AI-specific legal frameworks, including the EU AI Act, and hands-on involvement with AI product feature reviews.
Experience with app store legal compliance processes at scale.
Background in cybersecurity, security technology, or data protection engineering contexts.
Familiarity with Taiwan-specific enterpriser protection laws and regulatory enforcement patterns.
Exposure to cross-regional privacy program management, including data mapping, vendor assessment, and incident response coordination.
Who We’re Looking For
This is not a role for someone who treats legal review as a checklist. We’re looking for a lawyer who is genuinely invested in the business, takes ownership of outcomes, and has the seniority and confidence to push back when needed - while remaining constructive, practical, and collaborative. You should know how to read a room, adapt your communication style to different audiences, and build the kind of credibility that makes your counsel sought out rather than worked around.
You’ll be joining a global legal team that values teamwork, directness, intellectual curiosity, and a low-ego approach to getting things done. Experience with AI as a work tool isn’t a nice-to-have - we expect our lawyers to be working at the frontier of how legal functions operate.
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