Managing Counsel, Product

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere

Flexible working hours (async)

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget & IT equipment

16 weeks paid parental leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC, a global HR-tech platform, seeks a Managing Counsel, Product (not a People Manager) to guide product counseling, AI governance, and risk controls across jurisdictions. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security and Privacy to ensure compliant development and usage of HRIS/AI features.

Ideal candidates bring extensive product counseling experience, AI regulation knowledge, and in-house/startup exposure.

Qualifications

• Seasoned lawyer with product counseling experience across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience in technology, HR-tech exposure (EOR/PEO/HRIS/Payroll).
• Knowledge of AI frameworks (EU AI Act, UK, US, Canada) and data protection.
• In-house experience is a bonus; startup experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end with risk controls.
• Draft and negotiate product terms, including AI clauses as required.
• Monitor new AI and tech regulations and translate to concrete steps for teams.
• Manage external counsel on multi-jurisdictional issues; drive outcomes.

Skills

Product counsel

In-house legal

Startup experience

AI/ML knowledge

Analytical skills

Tools

Slack

Juro

Notion

Google Drive

Job description

About the company

the company is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully the company.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the the company team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join the company and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Product (Please note, this is not a People Manager role). We are looking for a talented and eager lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission, namely: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for the company’s products and stakeholders, while protecting the company from unacceptable risk.

the company’s well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.

More specifically, this role is expected to:

• Lead AI and HRIS product compliance, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security and the Privacy team;
• Embed a risk-based legal review into product development workflows;
• Own product T&C for HRIS and AI features (output ownership, training use, acceptable use, transparency/disclaimers).
• Stand up core Product AI governance (model inventory, risk classification, human oversight, bias/testing, incident response alignment)

What you bring

Qualified Lawyer: Seasoned lawyer with extensive experience on Product counseling (jurisdiction agnostic; multiple bars a plus)Product Counsel Experience in technology, with prior HR-tech exposure (EOR/PEO/HRIS/Payroll) advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.Strong command of emerging AI frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA) and employment transparency rulesIn-house Experience: Bonus - In-house legal experience preferredStartup Experience: Bonus - Experience in fast-paced start-upTech Passion: Passionate about tech and HR tech productsSkills: Excellent analytical and organizational skillsLanguage: Writes and speaks fluent EnglishTools: Tech-savvy with Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent

• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Key Responsibilities

Legal ExpertiseOwn HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end, including AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security.Draft and negotiate product terms, and AI-specific clauses as required (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency), in collaboration with Commercial Legal team.Proactively monitor new AI and tech regulations and translate those into concrete, actionable steps for product, design and engineering teams.Manage external counsel on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues; drive clear, practical outcomes.Deliver targeted enablement (Trainings or office hours).Partner with Privacy & Security on DPIAs/TIAs, incident response, and vendor/LLM diligence.Complex Matters: Figures out solutions rather than just escalating problems.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with AI/ML legal and compliance issues
• Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework.
• Experience working remotely

Practicals

You’ll report to: Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product

Team: Legal

Location: Anywhere in the World

Start date: As soon as possible

the company's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At the company we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At the company, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is$66,300—$149,150 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at . As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at the company which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at .

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At the company, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about the company's AI guidelines check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.