Associate Product Counsel, Safety (Gaming Platform)

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking an Associate Product Counsel, Safety, to join its Product Legal team in San Francisco. You will provide legal guidance on reporting, routing, and remediation for safety features and collaborate with product, engineering, and ML teams to govern deployment of safety models.

You will stay current on global regulatory obligations and advise on actions to align Discord with evolving laws, including EU digital services and other jurisdictions, helping shape safety strategy for

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Admission to the California Bar or eligible to register as in-house counsel with the California Bar.
• 4+ years of legal experience, ideally combining law firm and in-house experience at a consumer-facing technology company.
• Demonstrated experience counseling product and engineering teams on online safety, content moderation, platform liability, and/or privacy — ideally at a social, gaming, or UGC platform.
• Ability to turn complex regulatory text into clear, operational guidance that product and engineering teams can actually implement.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to provide practical, creative advice on challenging online safety and legal topics.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners and communicate complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
• Self-starter with excellent project management skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key legal advisor to Discord's Safety Product teams, providing counsel across the reporting, routing, and remediation surfaces that help users stay safe.
• Support the development lifecycle and the guardrails governing deployment of models powering Discord's safety systems—partnering closely with Safety ML on how detection models are built, validated, and shipped.
• Review and assess new safety features and practices from the early design stages and forward.
• Advise on user-facing reporting, appeal, and take-down workflows, as well as the region-specific obligations that may shape them such as the EU’s Digital Services Act or the Take It Down Act in the United States.
• Proactively monitor the global online safety landscape, identifying inbound regulatory obligations affecting the Safety Product teams, assessing their applicability and exposure, and advising the team on strategic response and prioritization.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Trust & Safety operations, and Policy to translate complex safety regulations into practical, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate across the Discord Legal team — including regional Regulatory, Privacy, and Litigation Counsel—to develop aligned positions on cross-cutting safety obligations and drive strategic decisionmaking about how Discord meets them.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory analysis

Risk assessment

Communication to non-legal

Project management

Education

J.D.

California Bar admission

Job description

Discord is seeking an Associate Product Counsel, Safety, to join its Product Legal team in San Francisco. You will provide legal guidance on reporting, routing, and remediation for safety features and collaborate with product, engineering, and ML teams to govern deployment of safety models.

You will stay current on global regulatory obligations and advise on actions to align Discord with evolving laws, including EU digital services and other jurisdictions, helping shape safety strategy for