Senior Product Counsel,  Real Estate Product

Overview

This Principal, Legal Counsel role provides strategic legal guidance to senior leaders on complex, high-impact matters, acting as a subject-matter expert on real estate, technology, and regulatory issues affecting products and business operations. Responsibilities include leading the design and negotiation of critical agreements, developing scalable legal frameworks, and managing legal risk while supporting innovation and strong customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-risk legal matters and provide strategic counsel to executives and senior leaders on issues materially impacting products, data, and business operations.
• Design, negotiate, and finalize sophisticated commercial, technology, and data-related agreements, balancing legal risk with business objectives and long-term relationship considerations.
• Anticipate and assess emerging legal, regulatory, and industry developments affecting online real estate marketplaces, translating them into actionable guidance, policies, and scalable playbooks for business and legal partners.
• Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and operations teams to structure and launch new or enhanced offerings in a compliant, privacy- and consumer-focused manner, embedding legal controls into core workflows.
• Lead cross-functional responses to escalated disputes, investigations, and regulatory or industry inquiries, coordinating strategy, communications, and remediation to protect legal and reputational interests.
• Develop and refine legal standards, templates, training, and knowledge resources to drive consistency, efficiency, and high-quality decision-making across the Legal team and stakeholder groups.
• Mentor and informally lead other attorneys and legal professionals, modeling sound judgment, inclusive practices, and effective ways of working in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Admission to at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• 10+ years of experience as a practicing attorney in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, with significant work for technology, online platform, or real-estate-adjacent organizations at scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-level transactions, regulatory matters, or disputes with material business impact, including direct interaction with senior executives and external counterparties.
• Proven track record of translating ambiguous, evolving legal and regulatory requirements into practical guidance for product, engineering, and business teams in a high-growth, fast-changing environment.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC, the standard base pay range for this role is $191,300.00 - $305,700.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.
• In addition to a competitive base salary, the position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance, and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance, and location.
• Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Location

This role is categorized as Remote. Remote employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and instead work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified.

• U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include working safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhering to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicating effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and following all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.