Product Counsel (Consumer-Facing Tech)

Paragon Legal Group; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 145,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Legal Group LLC is seeking an experienced Product Counsel for a remote, six‑month engagement to support a fast‑paced, consumer‑facing product team. You will advise on privacy, consumer protection, IP, competition, and regulatory matters, partnering with product and business stakeholders to provide practical risk mitigations and timely guidance.

The role requires independent, strategic thinking and the ability to defend legal recommendations in real time as product features and launches

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree and bar admission.
• Experience advising on privacy, consumer protection, and regulatory issues.
• Ability to provide practical risk mitigations and real-time guidance.
• Prior experience with large technology platforms or marketplace products may be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Advise product teams on legal risks for new features and launches.
• Partner with stakeholders to resolve privacy, IP, competition, and regulatory concerns.
• Provide strategic, practical legal advice to enable innovation.
• Defend recommendations and explain risk tradeoffs.

Skills

Privacy law

Consumer protection

Intellectual property

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Product counseling

Litigation risk

Job description

The Position

A leading global technology company is seeking an experienced Product Counsel to support a fast-paced, consumer-facing product team. This is an opportunity to serve as a trusted legal advisor, partnering closely with product and business stakeholders on new features, product launches, and complex legal and regulatory issues. The ideal candidate is a true product counseling generalist who can quickly identify legal issues across privacy, consumer protection, intellectual property, competition, regulatory matters, and litigation risk. The focus is on providing strategic, practical legal advice that helps product teams innovate and move forward. Success in this role requires excellent legal judgment, comfort advising business stakeholders in real time, and the ability to evaluate multiple approaches, recommend risk mitigations, and confidently defend legal recommendations. The team values attorneys who can operate independently, learn quickly, and act as creative problem-solving partners to the business. Prior experience with large technology platforms or marketplace products may be beneficial. This project starts around the first week of January,is estimated to be for 6 months with potential to extend,is fully remote,and requires 40 hours/week. The hourly rate for this assignment is expected to be between $105and $109. This range is an estimate; an employee’s compensation will be based on the employee’s qualifications, skillset, and relevant experience, specific client needs, project requirements, and other considerations permitted by law.

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About Paragon

Paragon is on a mission to make in-house legal practice a better experience for everyone. We provide legal departments at leading corporations with high quality, flexible legal talent to help them meet their changing workload demands. At the same time, we offer talented attorneys and other legal professionals a way to practice law outside the traditional career path, empowering them to achieve both their professional and personal goals. Our corporate clients include the nation’s top, cutting-edge technology, healthcare, consumer products companies, and more. In the last several years we have taken our strong reputation in the Bay Area and expanded to clients and candidates across the country.

At Paragon, we put people first, take pride in operating with integrity, and aspire for excellence in everything we do. Our unique attorney-led attorney development team will support you through and beyond your initial project.

Our Commitments

Equal Opportunity Employer:Paragon Legal Group LLC is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. Paragon Legal makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

San Francisco Fair Chance:Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and do not conduct background screens prior to an offer of employment.

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