Product Counsel

About the role

Product Counsel serves as a strategic legal partner embedded within SpaceXAI's product and engineering organizations, directly shaping how emerging AI capabilities are designed, launched, and scaled. The role owns the legal strategy for key product lines that drive user engagement, personalization, and international growth, ensuring initiatives align with both business objectives and regulatory constraints. You will translate complex legal requirements into practical guidance that allows product teams to move quickly while remaining compliant and responsible. This position demands deep collaboration with engineering, safety, policy, and business development to identify risks early and co-develop solutions that support innovation. You are expected to exercise initiative, demonstrate ownership of legal outcomes, and contribute hands-on analysis without requiring constant supervision. Success is measured by your ability to unblock product development through clear advice and by helping build durable legal processes that scale with the business.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Provide day-to-day legal advice to SpaceXAI's product and engineering teams on matters involving AI systems, personalization, user interests, creator tools, advertising, and international expansion, explaining how laws affect product decisions.
• Partner closely with engineers and product managers as they build new features and AI models, helping them understand legal constraints and design compliant product experiences from the start.
• Work with the Legal and Public Policy leadership to interpret global laws, assess their impact on SpaceXAI products, and translate high-level requirements into actionable guidance for cross-functional teams.
• Develop and maintain scalable legal processes, such as playbooks, decision frameworks, and templates, so that product teams can receive consistent, high-quality legal input on strategic initiatives.
• Act as a cross-functional collaborator, coordinating with Legal, Engineering, Safety, Policy, and Business Development to resolve complex issues that span multiple domains and stakeholder groups.
• Monitor evolving U.S. and international legal landscapes, focusing on AI regulation, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, content moderation, consumer protection, and advertising rules, and surface relevant changes to product teams.
• Evaluate product proposals for legal risk, draft policy exceptions or safeguards where appropriate, and help teams document decisions to support audits and external reviews.
• Support the creation of user-facing legal materials, such as notices, policies, and disclosures, ensuring they are accurate, clear, and aligned with product intent and regulatory expectations.
• Represent SpaceXAI in discussions with regulators, partners, and other stakeholders when necessary, advocating for the company's position while maintaining a solutions-oriented approach.
• Continuously expand your expertise across AI, privacy, copyright, advertising, and consumer protection law, staying current with case law, guidance, and industry standards to maintain a high level of advisory quality.

Requirements

• Hold a Juris Doctor degree and be admitted to practice law in your relevant jurisdiction, with good standing in that jurisdiction.
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of legal experience, with substantive work in at least some of the following areas: AI, privacy, consumer protection, and content regulation law.
• Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal concepts into clear, concise, and actionable advice for non-lawyers.
• Show strong ownership and initiative, thriving in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and problems require urgent, pragmatic solutions.
• Exhibit comfort working across highly cross-functional teams, engaging peers in a cooperative and participatory manner to advance shared objectives.
• Have a proven track record of delivering high-quality legal analysis under tight deadlines while managing multiple competing priorities.
• Be willing to continuously learn new legal and technical topics, including updates on AI-related laws, privacy frameworks, and platform regulations that affect SpaceXAI's products.
• Be located in, or be able to work from, one of SpaceXAI's offices in Palo Alto, New York, Austin, or Los Angeles, as the role is not remote or hybrid.

Nice to have

• Prior regulatory or in-house experience, especially within consumer platforms or technology companies.
• A background in social media or consumer-facing platforms, particularly dealing with personalization, data protection, and content-related legal challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate into existing workflows and contribute in a participatory team environment.

Practical notes

• This position is based in Palo Alto, California, and is not eligible for remote or hybrid work arrangements.
• Employment is subject to applicable visa sponsorship requirements and other standard hiring conditions.