Product Counsel

Mirage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401K with employer match

Commuter Benefits

Catered lunch multiple days per week

Dinner stipend every night if you’re工作

Grubhub subscription

Health & Wellness Perks

Team offsites and monthly events

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Mirage seeks a Product Counsel to partner with product, engineering, and research teams in a fast-moving startup environment. You will advise on new features, model launches, and creative tools from concept to ship, addressing issues like privacy, IP, and policy in generative media.

You’ll also triage broader legal needs across commercial, corporate, and employment, coordinating with outside counsel when needed, and help build the legal function while acting as a business partner.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of legal experience with product counsel at a consumer tech company.
• J.D. and active admission to at least one state bar; eligible to practice in-house in New York.
• Strong privacy, IP, UGC, and consumer protection knowledge.
• Practical, business-first judgment with clear guidance and actionable paths.
• Willingness to be the sole lawyer and operate in unknown areas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as embedded counsel for product and engineering, reviewing features and launches.
• Advise on rights, IP, privacy, and content issues in generative AI and media.
• Own consumer-facing legal surfaces like Terms of Service and privacy policy.
• Counsel marketing on claims, endorsements, and promotions.
• Build lightweight processes to accelerate launches and avoid bottlenecks.
• Triage legal matters across the company, coordinating with outside counsel as needed.

Skills

Legal experience

Product counsel

In-house experience

Business judgment

Startup experience

Education

J.D. and bar admission

Job description

About the Role

As Product Counsel, you'll be the day-to-day legal partner to our product, engineering, and research teams. You’ll be advising on new features, model launches, and creative tools from concept through ship. Mirage operates at the frontier of generative media, where likeness rights, copyright and training data, privacy, and platform policy all collide. You'll own that surface area.

Your scope won't stop at product. Partnering with the Chief of Staff and founders, you'll help triage the company's broader legal needs across commercial, corporate, and employment, and help manage those workflows, alongside our outside counsel where necessary. This role is a fit for a strong product lawyer who wants real startup experience and an opportunity to shape and scale our legal function while also serving as a business thought partner.

Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square).

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as embedded counsel for product and engineering, reviewing features, flows, and launches at the pace we ship
• Advise on the hard questions in generative AI and synthetic media: right of publicity, IP and copyright, content moderation, provenance and disclosure
• Own consumer-facing legal surfaces like our Terms of Service, privacy policy, in-product disclosures and consents, and app store compliance
• Counsel marketing and growth on claims, endorsements, and promotions
• Build lightweight legal processes, such as launch reviews and escalation paths, that enable speed rather than slow it down
• Triage incoming legal matters across the company and manage with relevant stakeholders, including outside counsel when necessary

What makes you a great fit

• 5+ years of legal experience, including substantial product counsel work at a consumer technology company (in-house, or firm plus in-house)
• J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one state bar with an ability to practice in-house in New York.
• Fluency in the legal landscape of consumer software: privacy (GDPR, CCPA, COPPA), IP, UGC and content issues, and consumer protection
• Practical, business-first judgment. You give clear, concise answers and workable paths forward, not memos
• Comfortable operating as the only lawyer in the room, with the curiosity to stretch into the unknown

Even better if…

• You have experience with generative AI, synthetic media, or similar technologies
• You've managed outside counsel relationships and legal spend
• You've been an early legal hire at a startup, or have been looking for that experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you’re working late and want a bite!
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.