Counsel, Product

Perplexity
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 200,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Excellent judgment","Clear writing","Translating legal requirements","Independent leadership","Comfort with ambiguity"]

Partner with Product, Privacy & Regulatory Legal to counsel consumer product and feature teams from early design through launch. Advise on consumer protection, marketing and advertising practices, subscriptions, privacy/data use, consent, retention, and AI transparency. Lead legal review for cross-functional launches, respond to regulators and consumer escalations worldwide, and convert recurring questions into scalable legal guidance and durable product requirements.

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Counsel, Product

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Job Summary

Partner with Product, Privacy & Regulatory Legal to counsel consumer product and feature teams from early design through launch. Advise on consumer protection, marketing and advertising practices, subscriptions, privacy/data use, consent, retention, and AI transparency. Lead legal review for cross-functional launches, respond to regulators and consumer escalations worldwide, and convert recurring questions into scalable legal guidance and durable product requirements.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a primary legal partner for consumer products and features from early design through launch and post-launch review.
  • •Advise on consumer protection issues including unfair/deceptive practices, disclosures, pricing, subscriptions, renewals, refunds, promotions, advertising claims, dark patterns, and customer support practices.
  • •Review marketing, growth, and advertising initiatives, including adtech/martech integrations, audience practices, and email/messaging campaigns.
  • •Counsel product and engineering teams on privacy, data use, consent, retention, security, AI transparency, age-related protections, and other legal requirements.
  • •Support regulator responses and escalations worldwide, and build scalable legal infrastructure such as templates, review standards, decision records, training, and self-service guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 265,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •J.D. (or LL.M. or equivalent) and current authorization to practice law in the U.S. state where you are located.
  • •At least five years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, government agency, or in-house role, with meaningful consumer protection or product counseling experience.
  • •Strong command of U.S. consumer protection law, including FTC Act Section 5 and state UDAP laws.
  • •Experience across several areas such as subscriptions/auto-renewal, advertising/marketing, privacy/data protection, payments, promotions, platform regulation, or AI governance.
  • •Ability to lead a product or regulatory matter independently, from fact development through recommendation and execution.
Experience:5+ yearsAIPrivacyConsumer protectionAdvertisingSubscriptionsAdtechMartech
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:Excellent judgmentClear writingTranslating legal requirementsIndependent leadershipComfort with ambiguity

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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