# Product Counsel

**Company**: Twitch
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $169,300-$229,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/twitch/jobs/8502593002
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c72dce77-048

## Description

Join a dynamic legal team working on a variety of legal issues across the entire company. As a Product Counsel, you will be an important legal advisor to Twitch's teams on all phases of the product development life cycle. Your focus will be on content policy and moderation; online safety and youth safety; and advertising and brand safety, including regulatory engagement on these topics. You will use both your legal judgment and business sense to assist product, engineering, business development, marketing, and other teams to develop thoughtful strategies to meet business goals while minimizing legal risk.

Your work will include not just advising on products, but also assessing new laws, devising policies and compliance measures, working with lawmakers and regulators, and partnering with teams throughout the company. You will report to one of our Associate General Counsel.

Key responsibilities include:

- Advising on the application of a range of laws, compliance issues, and industry standards, with a focus on safety, moderation, and advertising, including regulatory engagement on these topics.

- Reviewing products, processes, features, and initiatives to provide advice consistent with Twitch’s legal obligations globally.

- Supporting product and advertising growth while balancing user and policy considerations.

- Drafting consumer disclosures, FAQs, and terms and conditions.

- Assisting in developing strategies for potential disputes, litigation, enforcement, and regulatory matters.

- Partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Privacy, Public Policy, Marketing, Comms, and Customer Trust.

- Working with other legal team members to improve processes and provide training.

- Keeping current on relevant industry standards, laws, and regulations.

## Skills

### Required
- J.D. Degree
- California Bar admission in good standing (or California Registered In-House Counsel)
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience working on technology or internet-related issues, with 1+ year of in-house experience preferred
- Experience advising clients in the video, mobile, gaming, e-commerce, online marketplaces, user generated content, or internet products/services sectors
- Substantial experience with US and international laws regarding online safety, youth safety, content policies, content moderation, advertising, and/or brand protection

### Nice to have
- Experience as product counsel at a technology company
- Experience with social media, services hosting user generated content, or video games