Global Legal Director: IPO Readiness & Scalable Compliance
Listed on 2026-09-02
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Security
Information Security & Data Protection
Join us as we scale our business by building on our tremendous success around the world. The massive database market is going to double over the next few years and TiDB is a global player positioned as a major disruptor with TiDB Database and Database as a Service offering. TiDB is the proven enterprise database foundation for the AI era. We help companies solve today’s database problems.
Cost, scale, downtime, and complexity. With a distributed SQL architecture that is already battle-tested at enterprise scale. And now we help those same companies future-proof for innovating with AI, by giving them one unified foundation for transactional state, vector context, real-time analytics, and safe agent operations. In a world where AI agents need to work on fresh data, act safely, and scale economically, TiDB is not another database add-on.
It is the highway system for agentic workloads. Large and high-growth organizations in markets as varied as financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce and software as a service have successfully deployed and expanded their TiDB footprint on mission-critical applications. Our strong open-source community roots (40,000+ stars on Git Hub), innovative products and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company.
Learn more about TiDB careers and join our team to be at the forefront of innovation and growth.
- This position requires candidates to be located in the West Coast time zone.**
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TiDB is seeking an exceptional Legal Director to architect, scale, and operationalize the company’s global legal infrastructure. This senior leadership role focuses on building long-term global systems, legal workflows, scalable contracting processes, and cross-functional compliance readiness—not providing routine transactional support. The Legal Director will serve as the senior-most legal leader for the global business, providing high-level commercial guidance where needed while building global legal programs, automation, and governance structures aligned with TiDB’s hyper-growth, product evolution, and future public-company readiness.
Responsibilities:
Global Commercial Leadership & Complex Transactions
- Lead negotiations for high-value, complex, or escalated global SaaS and infrastructure agreements (>$1M).
- Negotiate and structure hyperscaler agreements (AWS, Azure, GCP), cloud marketplace listings, strategic partnerships, and open-core monetization models.
- As the senior legal leader supporting global business, provide commercial contracting support for matters requiring senior-level legal judgment—including escalated, non-standard, or cross-border deals.
- Design contracting systems, including templates, playbooks, fallback logic, and automated workflows that reduce the need for manual review for standard agreements.
- Manage and harmonize simultaneous multi-region compliance obligations (GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy regulations), including AI governance, cloud-native regulations, and distributed data models.
- Build scalable global governance frameworks, compliance programs, and cross-border data protection mechanisms.
- Architect the global legal operating model, including AI-enabled contract automation, self-service tooling, and scalable workflow processes.
- Contribute to TiDB’s long-term IPO-readiness initiatives, helping mature governance, documentation, compliance controls, and legal systems aligned with public-company standards.
- Partner with Finance, HR, Product, Sales, Security, and Engineering on cross-functional processes and internal control frameworks.
- Co-design data product terms, implement legal safeguards within product workflows, and ensure compliance with open-source licensing and hybrid cloud/on-premise deployment models.
- Support new business models (consumption-based pricing, distributed systems, cloud-native GTM motions).
- Operate as the senior legal stakeholder for global business, collaborating closely with Asia-based R&D and global commercial leadership.
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