Senior Product Counsel, DeepMind

Google DeepMind; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 344,000 - 382,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Product Counsel to partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams. You will advise on privacy, regulatory, and legal issues for Gemini products, helping teams anticipate and land compliant launches worldwide.

You will collaborate with legal, compliance, and external counsel on evolving global requirements, ensuring responsible AI product development. The role emphasizes proactive risk management, policy alignment, and seamless coordination with Global

Qualifications

• JD, LL.B., or equivalent degree or practical experience.
• 7 years of experience with global content, privacy and security, consumer protection, copyright, and competition laws.
• 3 years of experience with AI legal issues and AI landscape.
• Experience using AI tools in a professional environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide front-line product, privacy, and regulatory counseling for various consumer product launches across Gemini apps.
• Build risk-calibrated solutions to help products comply with existing and upcoming global laws.
• Lead and support various cross-functional projects including regulatory investigations.
• Cultivate strong relationships with business and product leaders to identify balanced strategy and solutions for business and legal risks.

Skills

Legal expertise

Regulatory counsel

AI regulatory knowledge

AI tools experience

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) / equivalent

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience working with global content, privacy and security, consumer protection, copyright, and competition laws.
• 3 years of experience working with AI legal issues and the AI landscape.
• Experience using AI tools in a professional environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as in-house legal counsel at a technology company.
• Ability to contribute to AI products or systems, and have a balanced view of the opportunities and risks of those AI products or systems.
• Ability to align with DeepMind’s mission and contribute directly to achieving it.
• Ability to grow as a supportive team player within a highly collaborative environment.

About The Job

The DeepMind Legal team provides proactive and strategic legal counseling to accelerate DeepMind’s exceptional technologies.

As a Product Counsel, you will work closely with the DeepMind product, engineering and cross-functional teams in order to advise on a variety of legal issues relevant to their work. Specifically, you will collaborate closely with DeepMind product and research teams, other members of the legal team, compliance teams, and with outside counsel when needed to address global privacy and regulatory issues arising from cutting-edge consumer product launches. You also help product teams prepare for upcoming global laws and regulations, and provide support on regulatory investigations.

Your role is focused on product, privacy, and regulatory counseling across Google Gemini. You will play a key role in counseling high-risk product launches globally, implicating cutting-edge AI, machine-learning, privacy, content, copyright, and competition legal issues. You will help build solutions to successfully land product launches globally. You will work closely with key stakeholders across Global Affairs and the wider company to prepare and comply with existing and upcoming global laws.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $344000 - $382000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Provide front-line individual product, privacy, and regulatory counseling for various consumer product launches across Gemini apps.
• Build risk-calibrated solutions to help products comply with existing and upcoming global laws.
• Lead and support various cross-functional and other projects as needed, including regulatory investigations.
• Cultivate strong relationships with business and product leaders across DeepMind and Gemini teams to identify balanced strategy and solutions for business and legal risks.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.