Senior

Databricks is looking for a talented Senior Counsel, Regulatory to join our expanding Legal team to lead our response to the rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape. This position will sit on our Corporate Legal team and is a unique opportunity to build and own a new, cross-functional regulatory practice while providing business-focused legal advice to stakeholders throughout Databricks on a daily basis.

• Serve as the primary internal subject matter expert on emerging global regulatory frameworks outside of privacy and export controls—including DORA, NIS-2, CSR, EU Data Act, EU AI Act, CRA, DMA, and DSA—as well as various global antitrust and competition regimes and payments regulation.
• Lead and drive the strategic implementation of these complex legislative requirements, taking ownership of the centralized regulatory roadmap, triage process, and incident response playbooks.
• Partner cross-functionally to embed regulatory compliance by design into the architecture of the Data Intelligence Platform, Lakehouse, and agentic AI workflows.
• Partner closely with Product Legal, Commercial Legal and GTM Legal to unblock high-stakes enterprise deals and partnerships, draft specialized negotiation fallbacks, and build scalable, customer-facing collateral.
• Act as the empowered regulatory point of contact on customer calls for white-glove and highly regulated customers (e.g., financial services and public sector).
• Work directly with Corporate Operations to operationalize regulatory compliance controls.
• Support strategic international expansion efforts, including navigating local AI and data regulations proactively and future-proofing for EU data sovereignty.
• Stay current on relevant legal developments and industry trends to offer proactive advice, training, and support to the business, while leading OKRs to continuously improve and scale processes related to regulatory compliance.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across multiple geographical locations.

• At least 8 years of experience at a nationally recognized law firm and/or in-house legal department, with substantial focus on technology, data, or regulatory matters.
• J.D. from a top-tier law school.
• Member of a state bar in good standing for U.S. candidates.
• Demonstrated experience advising on global data, digital, and/or technology regulation; familiarity with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, EU Data Act, DORA, NIS-2, the DSA, or the DMA, or analogous regimes, is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting SaaS, cloud, or data-platform products, and comfort partnering directly with Engineering, Product, and Security teams to operationalize regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting commercial and go-to-market teams in customer-facing negotiations, including with enterprise customers in highly regulated sectors.
• Ability to understand challenging and novel issues, assess risk, and provide concise, actionable, business-focused legal advice and counsel.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal stakeholders over multiple geographical locations.
• Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and manage deadlines, workflow, and execute in a fast-paced and demanding work environment.
• Self-starter with the capability to operate independently and to interact confidently with senior management when required.
• Strong work ethic, excellent organizational skills, and ability to manage many cross-functional projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.

Zone 2 Pay Range: $197,800—$272,050 USD. The total compensation package may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.