Senior Product Counsel

The Role You’ll Play:

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Product Counsel to join our Legal team and support Playlist and its group companies - including Mindbody, + ClassPass - around the world. You will play a critical role in embedding legal compliance into Playlist’s product lifecycle while ensuring the business retains its bias towards action and continues to move quickly while innovating responsibly. You will advise on Playlist’s suite of B2B and B2C products. Your primary focus will be consumer protection laws and regulations but you’ll also advise on AI regulation, privacy and data protection, marketing laws and requirements and other regulatory matters related to our products and services where necessary. Working in a highly motivated, dynamic environment, you’ll be ready  to roll up your sleeves and engage collaboratively with external and internal stakeholders - including outside counsel, employees and executives worldwide - to juggle deadlines, manage simultaneous projects on a variety of legal matters and jump in wherever needed to get the job done.

• Be embedded with Playlist’s Product, Design and Engineering (PDE) teams, acting as a proactive partner throughout the product development lifecycle—from ideation to launch—to ensure legal compliance and manage risk without slowing innovation.
• Participate in product roadmap planning, collaborating closely with PDE stakeholders to identify upcoming features and functionality with legal implications and helping shape design decisions early.
• Be the lead Legal contact for Playlist’s Product, Design and Engineering, Security and Marketing teams, attending monthly squad reviews, building relationships of trust and providing timely, pragmatic advice on the legal implications of new product design and development;
• Monitor, research and analyze regulatory developments worldwide which affect Playlist and its customers, end users and employees to ensure proactive compliance with key federal, state and global regulations, including the CCPA/GDPR and US state privacy laws, TCPA, the ePrivacy Directive, HIPAA, laws relating to autorenewal subscriptions and other relevant consumer protection issues;
• Assist with Playlist’s privacy program, including maintenance of records of data processing activities, conducting data protection impact and legitimate interest assessments, and ensuring privacy-by-design is factored in to product development;
• Partner with Playlist’s Security team to continue to improve Playlist’s privacy, safety and security-by-design requirements and handling privacy inquiries;
• Draft, maintain and update internal policies and contractual documentation with customers, consumers and suppliers, including terms of use, privacy policies and data protection agreements;
• Collaborate with sales, marketing and operations teams to support commercial negotiations and escalations and ensure our advertising and marketing campaigns are aligned with marketing laws worldwide;
• Partner with all other practice areas within the Legal team as the subject matter expert in your area, including assisting the commercial legal team in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal agreements, assisting with M&A, employment and dispute resolution activities and, when appropriate, taking the lead on contract negotiations and other projects;
• Prepare and deliver privacy and product compliance training when needed;
• Be prepared to work within US time zones

Experience You Bring:  

• J.D. and membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar is required
• 10+ years’ relevant legal experience. In-house experience a plus, ideally in the technology industry.
• Strong experience working directly with PDE teams advising on consumer protection in the US, UK and Europe essential.
• Self-Motivated. You have hustle, an ability to drive cross-functional projects and deep experi...