Product Counsel (Product Feature Experience)

Paragon Legal; United States; On-site; USD 145,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Legal Group seeks an experienced Product Counsel to support consumer social and messaging products. You will work closely with product, engineering, and policy teams on high-impact features and launches, providing practical legal guidance in a fast-paced, in-house setting.

The role is well suited for attorneys who enjoy embedded collaboration and tackling evolving legal questions, including privacy, IP, and AI issues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on product counseling experience.
• Experience advising on privacy, IP, AI, or messaging matters.
• In-house experience at a technology company preferred.
• Candidates from large tech companies, startups, and mid-sized tech businesses welcome.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product teams, providing practical legal guidance and navigating complex questions in a fast-paced environment.
• Support multiple concurrent product initiatives and advise on new features and enhancements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including product, engineering, and policy teams.

Job description

The Position

A leading global technology company is seeking an experienced Product Counsel to support its consumer social and messaging products. This is an opportunity to work directly with product, engineering, and policy teams on high-impact features, product launches, and evolving legal questions in a dynamic technology environment. The ideal candidate has direct, hands-on product counseling experience, preferably in-house at a technology company. Experience advising on privacy, intellectual property, AI, or messaging-related matters is particularly valuable. Candidates from large technology companies, startups, and mid-sized technology businesses are welcome.

This role is well suited for an attorney who enjoys being embedded with product teams, providing practical legal guidance, and navigating complex questions in a fast-paced environment. The attorney will support multiple concurrent product initiatives, advise on new features and enhancements, and collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders.

ASAP start,40 hours/week;estimated 6 month duration with potential to extend; time zone agnostic.

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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