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Product Counsel

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Job Description

As a Product Counsel, you will provide strategic legal guidance to support the development and growth of advertising-related products and services, ensuring compliance with global regulations while enabling business innovation. You will partner with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, marketing, and partnerships, to navigate complex legal landscapes in advertising, privacy, and intellectual property. This role requires a proactive, tech-savvy attorney with a passion for AI and a collaborative mindset to drive X's advertising initiatives forward.

Locations: Palo Alto or Los Angeles
Compensation: $175,000 - $250,000 Base + Equity

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Responsibilities:

  • Become a deep subject-matter expert in the products you cover, building close connections with your product team through effective communication and collaboration

  • Serve as the first point of contact for your product team’s legal questions, and for the broader legal team’s questions about your product

  • Review new and changed products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions

  • Experience with drafting and reviewing Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)

  • Provide and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues applicable to the product you are supporting, including compliance with newly developing regulatory and legal obligations

  • Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk

  • Coordinate with public policy, communications, product management, engineering, product marketing, trust and safety, and other cross-functional teams on external communications, policy development, internal investigations, and product development and launches

Minimum Qualifications

  • J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) 

  • 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm or in-house experience

  • Experience in advertising

  • Proven experience to distill complicated technical concepts for legal colleagues and to distill complicated legal concepts for technical colleagues

  • Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills

  • Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms