Product Counsel

Overview

This role provides legal counsel for the development and launch of digital identity, document verification, and fraud-prevention products. You will partner with product, engineering, data science, and commercial teams to advise on legal risks, establish compliance controls, and support entry into new and global markets.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal guidance to product, data science, engineering, and sales/marketing teams on development of document verification and digital intelligence products, including advice across areas such as:
  • Privacy (especially biometrics)
  • Consumer protection
  • Responsible AI
  • Age assurance
  • Laws regulating identity cards, numbers, and authoritative data sources
  • Model risk
  • Machine learning bias, fair lending, and accessibility
  • Official privacy and identity standards relevant to government procurement and global markets
• Take a risk-based, business-enabling approach by tracking company and product strategies to manage and minimize legal risk and maintaining documentation to ensure guidance is easy to implement.
• Advise on commercial terms, including customer and vendor agreements, that affect product offerings.
• Draft terms of use, product and privacy policies, disclosures, and customer documentation, and implement related processes.
• Review external communications about products, including communications to customers, the market, regulators, and the press.
• Serve as a product expert for Legal and Government Affairs teams as needed to support contracting and corporate and regulatory matters.
• Partner with Data Acquisition & Licensing and Commercial Legal to ensure that data sources and customer contract terms align with the organization’s rights and restrictions, and that novel requirements are incorporated into contract templates and negotiation playbooks.
• Participate in privacy and data governance programs, including privacy-by-design reviews, data protection impact assessments, regulatory monitoring, and consumer-facing issues.
• Support customer and prospect engagement as a subject-matter expert, including regulator, bank-partner, and customer due diligence; security and compliance questionnaires; and regulated-industry go-to-market efforts.
• Handle government and regulator discussions and disclosures on compliance readiness, in coordination with Government Affairs and external counsel.
• Use AI tools as part of the legal workflow (AI-assisted drafting, research, and review), and help identify opportunities to automate repeatable legal processes.
• Design training and sales-enablement resources on key legal issues for general and targeted audiences.
• Monitor legal developments and propose creative, pragmatic ways to operate within the law to pursue innovation and competitive advantage.
• Complete special projects as they arise within areas of expertise.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of combined, relevant experience, including experience at a law firm and/or in-house for a financial institution or fintech.
• Technical background in engineering, computer science, data analytics, statistics, or a related area.
• Familiarity with launching products and advising on legal and regulatory implications of technology products.
• Familiarity with state and federal privacy and AI laws.
• Ability to translate legal advice into actionable guidance for product and business teams.
• Strong interest in building legal, tech, and commercial knowledge and evolving communication and advocacy skills.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively.
• Sound business judgment, intellectual creativity, and strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• JD and active membership in at least one state bar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Not specified.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified.

Location

• Not specified.