Senior Product & Privacy Counsel

Mesh Connect; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mesh Connect seeks a Senior Product & Privacy Counsel to be the legal partner to our product, engineering, and design teams, advising from ideation through launch on privacy, IP, financial regulation, and consumer protection. This hands-on, in-house role delivers practical, risk-based guidance at startup speed and translates complex regulations into shippable product decisions.

You will embed with product teams, manage IP, privacy-by-design, and regulatory strategy across US and international

Formación

• JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
• 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams.
• Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment.
• Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, and of IP as it applies to software products.
• Working knowledge of US financial regulation (money transmission, BSA/AML, consumer protection), and crypto or digital-asset regulation.
• A practical, risk-based style: you give clear answers, weigh trade-offs, and are comfortable with ambiguity and speed.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and the judgment to know what to decide and when to escalation.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design, embedded from concept through launch and iteration.
• Advise on privacy and data protection by design, including GLBA and the Safeguards Rule, US state privacy laws, and GDPR for our EU operations; help shape data flows, consent, minimization, and retention.
• Own product intellectual property matters: open-source software license review and compliance, and third-party IP clearance for features and integrations.
• Manage trademark strategy and the trademark portfolio, including brand and product-name clearance and filings, and handle other product-related IP issues as they arise.
• Support patent strategy: invention harvesting and disclosures, coordinating filings and prosecution with outside counsel, building and maintaining the patent portfolio, and freedom-to-operate assessments.
• Advise on financial regulation as it applies to features: US money transmission and state licensing considerations, BSA/AML and sanctions touchpoints, and crypto/digital-asset and payments frameworks across the regions we operate in.
• Advise on consumer protection, including UDAP/UDAAP, required disclosures, fee and marketing practices, and user-facing terms.
• Draft and negotiate product-related terms: user agreements, product disclosures, and terms tied to partner and vendor integrations.
• Partner with Compliance, Information Security, Marketing, and Regulatory to align product decisions with our licensing posture and risk appetite.
• Build scalable processes for product legal review, risk assessments, and clear sign-off paths that keep pace with a fast roadmap.
• Track regulatory and enforcement developments that affect the product and translate them into concrete, actionable guidance.

Conocimientos

Legal experience

In-house experience

Regulatory compliance

Privacy/data protection

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Juris Doctor (JD)

State bar admission

Descripción del empleo

Overview

We are hiring a Senior Product & Privacy Counsel to be the legal partner to our product, engineering, and design teams. You will sit close to the product and advise from ideation through launch on the full range of issues our products raise: privacy, intellectual property, financial regulation, consumer protection, and more. This is a hands-on, in-house role for someone who gives practical, risk-based advice at startup speed and turns complex regulatory requirements into product that ships.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design, embedded from concept through launch and iteration.

• Advise on privacy and data protection by design, including GLBA and the Safeguards Rule, US state privacy laws, and GDPR for our EU operations; help shape data flows, consent, minimization, and retention.

• Own product intellectual property matters: open-source software license review and compliance (attribution, copyleft, and distribution obligations), and third-party IP clearance for features and integrations.

• Manage trademark strategy and the trademark portfolio, including brand and product-name clearance and filings, and handle other product-related IP issues as they arise.

• Support patent strategy: invention harvesting and disclosures, coordinating filings and prosecution with outside counsel, building and maintaining the patent portfolio, and freedom-to-operate assessments.

• Advise on financial regulation as it applies to features: US money transmission and state licensing considerations, BSA/AML and sanctions touchpoints, and crypto/digital-asset and payments frameworks across the regions we operate in.

• Advise on consumer protection, including UDAP/UDAAP, required disclosures, fee and marketing practices, and user-facing terms.

• Draft and negotiate product-related terms: user agreements, product disclosures, and terms tied to partner and vendor integrations.

• Partner with Compliance, Information Security, Marketing, and Regulatory to align product decisions with our licensing posture and risk appetite.

• Build scalable processes for product legal review, risk assessments, and clear sign-off paths that keep pace with a fast roadmap.

• Track regulatory and enforcement developments that affect the product and translate them into concrete, actionable guidance.

Who You Are

• JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams.

• Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment.

• Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, and of intellectual property as it applies to software products: open-source licensing, trademarks, patents, filings and prosecution, and IP clearance.

• Working knowledge of US financial regulation (money transmission, BSA/AML, consumer protection), and ideally crypto or digital-asset regulation.

• A practical, risk-based style: you give clear answers, weigh trade-offs, and are comfortable with ambiguity and speed.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and the judgment to know what to decide and when to escalation.

Nice to Have

• Privacy certification (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E)

• Exposure to EU, UK, LATAM, or APAC regulatory regimes

• Experience helping scale a legal function in a high-growth company.