Product Legal Counsel

Playrix; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Playrix is seeking a Product Legal Counsel to partner with product, marketing and other teams across the game lifecycle. This hands-on role covers regulatory compliance, privacy, online safety, AI and IP issues.

You will translate complex legal questions into practical guidance to help the business move fast while remaining legally compliant, manage external counsel, and advise on monetization, content and data-sharing arrangements.

Qualifications

• Qualified to practice law in a European country and with at least 5+ years of legal experience.
• Experience advising product, technology or entertainment teams, in-house preferred.
• Fluent in English and Russian, with strong written and spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Advise on child safety, age assurance, and parental controls across games.
• Handle online trust, safety, content moderation, and user conduct issues.
• Lead responses to regulatory inquiries and information requests across jurisdictions.
• Guide teams on AI use, its legal risks, copyright, training data, and disclosures.
• Manage privacy matters across the product lifecycle, DPIA/LIA/TIA processes, DPAs, and data sharing.
• Advise on game design, monetization, content and advertising from a legal perspective.
• Assist customer support with player communications, refunds, and escalations.
• Oversee external counsel to ensure timely, cost-effective, and commercially focused support.
• Provide support on commercial and IP matters including publishing agreements and takedowns.

Skills

English fluency

Russian fluency

In-house experience

AI tools mindset

Education

Qualified to practice law in Europe

Job description

About the Role

Playrix is looking for a Product Legal Counsel. You'll be the go-to legal partner for our product, marketing, and other teams across the business, throughout the full game lifecycle.

It's a broad, hands-on role spanning regulatory compliance, minor protection, online trust and safety, privacy, and AI. You'll turn complex legal questions into clear, practical guidance that helps the business move fast while remaining legally compliant.

Responsibilities

• Advise on child and minor safety across our games, including age assurance and age-gating, youth-safety features, parental controls, and age-appropriate content and experiences.
• Handle online trust and safety matters, including content moderation, user conduct and reporting, and harmful or illegal content.
• Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, investigations, and requests for information, including gathering internal input, drafting submissions, and corresponding with regulators across various jurisdictions.
• Guide teams on the use of AI across the business and its associated legal risks (copyright, training data, output, disclosure/labeling, as well as platform and regulatory requirements).
• Handle privacy and data-protection matters across the product lifecycle, including providing day-to-day advice to product and marketing teams, conducting privacy risk assessments (DPIA, LIA, TIA), reviewing complex DPAs and other data-sharing arrangements with vendors and partners, and embedding privacy-by-design into in-game features, SDKs and third-party trackers.
• Advise on game design and mechanics, monetization (in-apps, virtual currencies, and reward mechanics), in-game content and features, as well as advertising and marketing.
• Help customer support teams with player communications and escalations, including difficult refund and chargeback cases, account actions, and player legal concerns.
• Manage external counsel, ensuring their support is timely, cost-effective, and commercially focused.
• Provide occasional support on commercial and IP matters, including publishing and marketing agreements, copyright and content clearance, and infringement or takedowns.

Requirements

• Qualified to practice law in any European country.
• 5+ years of legal experience, including 3+ years in-house advising product, technology, or entertainment teams; in-house experience at a game developer is highly desirable.
• Experience advising across multiple jurisdictions and managing external counsel.
• Fluency in English and Russian.
• A genuine appetite for using AI tools to work smarter.
• A talent for offering pragmatic, commercially focused advice on complex legal issues, with sound judgment amid ambiguity and little precedent, and a "getting to yes" mindset.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a varied, high-volume workload.
• Bonus points if you're a passionate gamer who plays both for work and for fun.

Preferred

• Additional credentials such as CIPP or AIGP.
• A passion for games, both at work and in your free time.

Work Format

Remote or from one of the company’s offices