Overview
This role serves as the organization’s first Senior Corporate Counsel, embedded with Product and Engineering, with a focus on payments and fintech regulatory work. Responsibilities span privacy and AI governance, advising on systems used by restaurants to run their businesses, including AI-powered guest experiences and embedded payments infrastructure.
You will report to the Head of Legal and be an early hire on the Legal team, with significant ownership over how compliant, well-designed products are built from day one.
Responsibilities
- Serve as embedded legal counsel to Product, Engineering, and Payments teams, advising on new features, AI-powered tools, pricing models, and payments integrations from concept through launch.
- Own legal review of AI-related products and features, including training data sourcing, model risk, algorithmic decision-making, and required disclosures.
- Advise on regulatory compliance for payments and fintech-adjacent products, including embedded payments, money movement, card network rules, and PCI-DSS considerations.
- Build and maintain privacy program elements most relevant to product, including data collection and retention practices, consumer disclosures, and compliance with CCPA/CPRA and other state privacy laws.
- Monitor emerging AI regulation (state AI laws, FTC guidance, and international frameworks where relevant) and translate it into practical, actionable product guidance.
- Draft and negotiate technology, data, and AI vendor agreements, including data and model licensing terms.
- Advise on digital accessibility compliance for product and engineering (e.g., ADA Title III risk, WCAG conformance) and counsel teams on accessible design before launch.
- Partner with General Counsel and business teams on regulatory risk assessments for new markets, products, and features.
- Build scalable playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools so product and engineering teams can move quickly with appropriate guardrails.
- Support incident response for privacy or AI-related issues, coordinating across engineering, security, and communications.
- Manage outside counsel on discrete regulatory, payments, or AI matters as needed.
Requirements
- J.D. and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 6+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house product counsel experience at a technology company.
- Direct experience advising on AI/ML products, with familiarity with the emerging AI regulatory landscape.
- Experience with fintech or payments products, including embedded payments, money movement, card issuing, or similar.
- Substantive privacy law experience, including CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and state comprehensive privacy laws.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance for product and engineering teams.
- Comfort working independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with incomplete information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in restaurant technology, hospitality tech, or vertical SaaS.
- Strong builder mentality, with experience creating processes, playbooks, and standards rather than only applying existing ones.
Compensation & Benefits
- Estimated starting base salary range: $180,000 - $220,000
- Plus a generous pre-IPO equity package
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Remote-first workplace
- Unlimited PTO
- Additional perks
Location
This role is remote and can be based anywhere in the United States, with a preference for SF Bay Area or NYC-based candidates.
The organization is remote-first and global, headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few roles, in-person collaboration may be prioritized at one of the office locations.