Associate Product Counsel, Safety

About This Role

Key ResponsibilitiesAI-extracted

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  Serve as a key legal advisor to Discord's Safety Product teams, providing counsel across the reporting, routing, and remediation surfaces that help users stay safe.
• 2
  Support the development lifecycle and the guardrails governing deployment of models powering Discord's safety systems—partnering closely with Safety ML on how detection models are built, validated, and shipped.
• 3
  Review and assess new safety features and practices from the early design stages and forward.
• 4
  Advise on user-facing reporting, appeal, and take-down workflows, as well as the region-specific obligations that may shape them such as the EU’s Digital Services Act or the Take It Down Act in the United States.
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  Proactively monitor the global online safety landscape, identifying inbound regulatory obligations affecting the Safety Product teams, assessing their applicability and exposure, and advising the team on strategic response and prioritization.

RequirementsAI-extracted

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Admission to the California Bar or eligible to register as in-house counsel with the California Bar
• 4+ years of legal experience, ideally combining law firm and in-house experience at a consumer-facing technology company
• Demonstrated experience counseling product and engineering teams on online safety, content moderation, platform liability, and/or privacy — ideally at a social, gaming, or UGC platform.
• Ability to turn complex regulatory text into clear, operational guidance that product and engineering teams can actually implement
• Strong business judgment and the ability to provide practical, creative advice on challenging online safety and legal topics

Perks & BenefitsAI-extracted