Product Counsel

Overview

This is a senior, largely independent product counsel role focused on privacy and children’s privacy compliance across the full product lifecycle. You will serve as the primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, Design, and Marketing, owning the privacy program day-to-day and advising on privacy, consumer protection, IP, emerging AI regulation, and other legal issues that arise as the organization ships new hardware features, games, and subscription content.

Responsibilities

Privacy & Child Safety Program Ownership

• Own the privacy program end-to-end, including:
  • COPPA compliance
  • Data mapping for camera- and AI-driven product functionality
  • Vendor data processing agreements
  • Consent and disclosure flows for a product used heavily by children
• Draft, review, and maintain the privacy policy, terms of service, and parental consent flows, including planning for new markets and aligning with international children’s/data protection frameworks (e.g., GDPR and other regional children’s privacy requirements).
• Advise Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, and Design on privacy-by-design principles and age-appropriate product experiences from ideation through launch.
• Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for children’s privacy and online safety (including COPPA, state age-appropriate design laws, GDPR-K, and similar frameworks) and translate changes into actionable product guidance.
• Serve as the point of contact for privacy incidents, regulatory inquiries, and data subject/parental requests; escalate appropriately to the General Counsel and outside counsel.
• Act as the escalation point for Legal Operations and Commercial Counsel on privacy or COPPA questions that arise in vendor, commercial, or operational contexts.

Product Counseling Across the Lifecycle

• Embed with Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, Design, and Marketing to review new features, hardware capabilities, and AI/motion-detection functionality for legal risk from concept through launch.
• Advise on consumer protection issues relevant to subscription and in-product offerings, including disclosures, auto-renewal compliance, and promotions or sweepstakes tied to product launches or marketing campaigns.
• Review product user experiences, in-app disclosures, and marketing/advertising materials to mitigate legal risk while supporting team goals.
• Provide practical guidance on emerging AI regulation as it applies to computer vision and motion-detection technology, including responsible AI development and deployment considerations.
• Flag physical product safety and liability considerations that arise from hardware feature design (e.g., camera/sensor placement, physical play mechanics, choking/impact hazards for young users) to the General Counsel and outside counsel during feature review.
• Support IP strategy for product innovation, including facilitating invention harvesting and partnering on patent-strategy conversations with Engineering.
• Advise on trademark use in-product in partnership with Legal Operations on portfolio docketing.

Building the Function

• Create playbooks, guides, and internal training to enable Product, Engineering, and Marketing to self-serve on lower-risk questions while escalating the right issues early.
• Design a scalable legal review process for product launches that keeps pace with release cadence without becoming a bottleneck.
• Partner with Legal Operations on intake triage and template design for product-related legal requests.
• Coordinate with Commercial Counsel to keep licensing/partnership agreements aligned with product privacy and IP commitments.
• Manage outside counsel on specialized privacy, AI regulatory, product-safety, or IP matters as needed; Legal Operations administers the underlying vendor relationship and spend.
• Help define the future shape and growth of the product legal function as the organization scales.

Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing (California or another U.S. state, as applicable).
• 4–7+ years of relevant legal experience combining law firm and in-house product counseling at a technology or consumer products company.
• Deep, hands-on experience with children’s privacy compliance, including COPPA and age-appropriate design frameworks (e.g., GDPR-K or similar).
• Experience advising product, engineering, and design teams throughout the full product development lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of consumer protection law as applied to subscriptions, promotions, and marketing claims.
• Comfort advising on emerging AI/computer vision regulatory questions even without a technical background, with genuine interest in the underlying technology.
• Builder mindset: ability to create playbooks, review processes, and governance frameworks from scratch.
• Excellent judgment translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal audiences under real deadlines.
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills and a collaborative, low-ego approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Privacy certification (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or similar) or willingness to obtain one.
• Experience in consumer hardware, consumer electronics, gaming, or toy/kids’ products.
• Experience supporting sweepstakes, contests, or promotions tied to consumer products or subscriptions.
• Exposure to patent or trademark strategy in a product/engineering context.
• Experience advising on international product launches and multi-jurisdictional compliance.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary: USD 180,000– USD 220,000
• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Opportunity for hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies in the evolving gaming field.

Location

• Remote
• San Jose, California, USA
• Hong Kong

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.