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10 product counsel experts
These ten lawyers have worked as in-house product counsel at technology companies, advising the teams that build and launch products. A reader can learn how in-house product counsel work with product teams on legal risk.
Professionals to explore
01—10Arleen Fernandez
LinkedInExperience: Senior Product Counsel · Dropbox
Senior Product Counsel at Dropbox since 2023 and former Product Counsel at Dropbox (2022–2023). The profile describes advising global product, engineering, design and marketing teams on complex legal, regulatory and operational issues. Former Associate Attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (2019–2021).
Henry Pistell
LinkedInExperience: Senior Lead Product Counsel · LinkedIn
Senior Lead Product Counsel at LinkedIn since 2022 and former Senior Product Counsel (2020–2022) and Product Counsel (2017–2020) at LinkedIn. The profile describes a senior in-house product counsel with knowledge spanning AI, payments, privacy, competition, consumer protection, IP, digital safety and contracts.
Judy Kwan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Product Counsel · Snowflake
Senior Product Counsel at Snowflake since 2024, where the profile says Kwan primarily supports the product and engineering teams behind Snowflake Cortex AI. Former Product Counsel at Dropbox (2021), Product & Commercial Counsel at HelloSign (2019–2021) and Senior Corporate Counsel at Algolia (2021–2024).
Julianne Harper
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product Counsel, Square · Block
Head of Product Counsel, Square at Block since 2022, where the profile describes leading the product counsel team at Square and providing strategic legal guidance. The profile headline lists WilmerHale and eBay as former employers, without dates for those roles.
Lara Tumeh
LinkedInExperience: Product Counsel for Gemini · Google
Product Counsel for Gemini at Google since 2024, where the profile describes advising product, engineering, UX, marketing and clinical teams on AI launches, with end-to-end counseling on risks and mitigations, user transparency and user controls. Former Associate Product Counsel for Gemini & Google Assistant at Google (2021–2024) and Attorney at Federal Trade Commission (2020–2021).
Maggie Patterson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Product Counsel · Intuit
Senior Product Counsel at Intuit since 2026 and Senior Product Counsel at Credit Karma since 2023. The profile describes assessing legal risk and providing end-to-end legal strategy and support throughout the financial product development lifecycle for products including Credit Karma and Quickbooks. Former Product Counsel at Credit Karma (2022–2023).
Matt Samuels
LinkedInExperience: Senior Product Counsel · Databricks
Former Senior Product Counsel at Databricks (2024–2025), Senior Product Counsel at Twitch (2022–2024) and Product Counsel at Twitch (2020–2022), and Product Legal at Anthropic since 2025. The profile describes partnering with product, engineering, policy, marketing and other teams to build and improve products.
Rob Slattery
LinkedInExperience: Lead Product Counsel, Product, IP, Tech Partnerships · Notion
Lead Product Counsel, Product, IP, Tech Partnerships at Notion since 2024 and former Product Counsel at Notion (2023–2024). Former Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Product, Alliances, IP (2022) and Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Alliances (2018–2022) at Zendesk.
Sneha Shah
LinkedInExperience: Product Counsel · Anthropic
Product Counsel at Anthropic since 2025, where the profile describes collaborating with cross-functional teams and executives to support global product launches and business expansion, with work spanning AI/ML, privacy, commercial, regulatory compliance and consumer protection. Former Corporate Counsel at Amazon (2024–2025).
Stephanie Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Senior AI Product Counsel, Gemini Apps (fka Bard) · Google DeepMind
Senior AI Product Counsel, Gemini Apps (fka Bard) at Google DeepMind since 2025. Former Senior Product Counsel, Gemini and Google Assistant (2022–2025), Senior Product Counsel, Google Cloud (2019–2022) and Product and Commercial Counsel, Communications & Social (2016–2019) at Google, and Legal Counsel, Imaging and Printing Supplies at HP (2014–2016).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's product area to yours, since counseling on AI features, payments and financial products, or developer software raises different legal questions. Also consider whether you need someone who has led a product counsel team or someone who has embedded with a single product group day to day.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01At what point in the product development cycle do you get involved, and how do you avoid slowing launches?
- 02How do you decide which product risks need executive escalation and which the team can accept?
- 03How do you work with privacy, policy and marketing teams when a launch raises new regulatory questions?
Reaching product counsel experts
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Pick one of the 10 people on this page and choose "Book a paid call", or describe your project to find others. You offer a fee for a 15-minute call or a written answer, Instant Expert finds the person's work email and sends the invitation, and they decide whether to accept. The list covers 10 companies, including Dropbox, LinkedIn and Snowflake, based on profile data retrieved on October 4, 2026. Being listed here doesn't mean someone has agreed to take calls.
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