Legal Counsel, Regulatory Hub & AI

Overview

A leading global provider of privacy-first compliance and age verification infrastructure is seeking a Legal Counsel focused on children's privacy and online safety laws. This role centers on maintaining and enhancing a proprietary multi-jurisdictional regulatory database and contributing to the development of an AI-powered legal assistant platform.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary legal custodian of a comprehensive regulatory database covering children's privacy and online safety laws across 195+ countries.
• Conduct systematic reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and currency of legal data, including legislative citations and enforcement summaries.
• Develop and refine methodologies for legal research, content classification, and confidence scoring across multiple jurisdictions.
• Utilize AI-powered research tools to monitor and analyze new laws, regulations, guidance, and enforcement actions globally.
• Synthesize legal developments into actionable database updates and internal guidance.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to provide legal expertise for the AI legal assistant platform, including reviewing AI-generated content and contributing to product feature development.
• Ensure legal content is clear, accurate, practically useful, and appropriately caveated for client use.
• Translate complex multi-jurisdictional legal requirements into clear summaries for product and legal teams.
• Contribute to internal training, knowledge sharing, and development of legal standards related to children's privacy and online safety.
• Collaborate with senior counsel to align legal interpretations and escalate complex issues.
• Supervise or quality-check contributions from contractors or external researchers as needed.

Requirements

• Law degree (LL.B, JD, or equivalent) and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction, or equivalent expertise in privacy and data protection law.
• 4–7 years of post-qualification experience in privacy, data protection, or a closely related legal field.
• Significant experience with children's privacy law, including familiarity with frameworks such as GDPR (child-specific provisions), COPPA, UK Children's Code, Australia's Online Safety Act, or equivalent.
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous multi-jurisdictional legal research and synthesize complex materials into clear, structured outputs.
• Proficiency and enthusiasm for using AI tools in legal work.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset, and ability to manage a large, ongoing workload independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior in-house experience at a technology company, gaming studio, social media platform, edtech provider, or other digital product company.
• Experience with legal knowledge management systems, regulatory databases, or structured legal content repositories.
• Familiarity with age assurance, parental consent frameworks, age-appropriate design standards, or online safety regulation.
• Relevant privacy certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or CIPM, especially focused on children's privacy or online safety.
• Experience collaborating with engineering or product teams in a legal or compliance capacity.
• Fluency in additional languages beyond English to support multi-jurisdictional research.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package commensurate with experience.
• Fully remote and flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful projects at the forefront of children's privacy law and legal AI.
• Collaborative environment where legal expertise is highly valued.
• Access to cutting-edge AI tools and a team dedicated to building advanced legal technology.
• Support for professional development, including certifications and conference attendance.

Location

• Based in Singapore, with openness to other locations.
• Proficiency in English required; additional languages are advantageous for research purposes.