# Product Paralegal

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $106,000-$145,200 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7838528
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e0fa0fff-e93

## Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative product paralegal to join Okta's Product Legal Team. In this role, you will be a key contributor in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional environment, providing essential support to the development and launch of innovative products.

The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and communication skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and an interest in technology and process improvement.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct intakes, including stakeholder interviews, to gather and document information about new products and features for attorney review.

- Assist attorneys with the initial review of products and features, using checklists and playbooks to help identify potential legal issues for further legal analysis.

- Help create and scale tools, processes, and knowledge to enhance the efficiency of the product counseling function.

- Develop and maintain organized records of product features and the corresponding legal guidance provided by the team's attorneys.

- Assist in tracking applicable laws, rules, and regulatory developments relevant to the team's work.

- Update and maintain the Product Legal team’s checklists, playbooks, and guidelines.

- Under attorney supervision, assist with drafting, reviewing, and preparing legal documents for attorney approval, such as inbound vendor agreements, outbound sales agreements, and NDAs.

- Execute Open Source Software program procedures for reviews of inbound code usage and outbound release requests.

- Assist in managing and coordinating training and other team programs for various organizations within the company.

- Build strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners across Okta to support complex, multi-stakeholder projects.

- Maintain metrics and controls for the team and its programs.

- Support other legal team projects and initiatives as they arise.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree; a degree in a technical field or operations management is a plus.

- A minimum of 5 years of experience providing paralegal support, preferably within an in-house legal department or a law firm.

- Proficiency with office productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Office, GSuite) and communication platforms (e.g., Slack, Confluence).

- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience interacting with clients or internal stakeholders in a cross-functional setting.

- A demonstrated interest in technology and process improvement.

Desired Skills:

- Demonstrated experience reviewing and drafting agreements in a support capacity.

- Working knowledge of technology transactions, intellectual property, open source software, and data privacy matters is strongly preferred.

- Proficiency with artificial intelligence tools is strongly preferred.

To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

## Skills

### Required
- paralegal
- product legal
- technology transactions
- intellectual property
- open source software
- data privacy
- artificial intelligence
- Microsoft Office
- GSuite
- Slack
- Confluence

### Nice to have
- agreements
- vendor agreements
- sales agreements
- NDAs
- Open Source Software program procedures
- training and development
- team management
- cross-functional collaboration