Product Counsel

Discord's Legal team is looking for an Associate Product Counsel to join its Product Legal team to provide dedicated support for our Safety products. You’ll advise on a range of topics such as how users report harm, how those reports are routed and remediated, as well as how Discord's safety detection models are built and deployed. You’ll also stay abreast of and advise the Safety organization on new regulatory obligations around the world. Reporting to our Managing Counsel for Safety Product, you'll join a small but growing team where your work will directly shape how Discord works to improve user safety for millions of users. What you'll be doing: 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. 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. Review and assess new safety features and practices from the early design stages and forward. 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. 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. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Trust & Safety operations, and Policy to translate complex safety regulations into practical, scalable solutions. Collaborate across the Discord Legal team — including regional Regulatory, Privacy, and Litigation Counsel—to develop aligned positions on cross-cutting safety obligations and drive strategic decisionmaking about how Discord meets them. What you should have: 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; Proven ability to build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners and communicate complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences; Self-starter with excellent project management skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Bonus points: Experience with gaming platforms, social platforms, or UGC platforms. Please note: This role involves exposure to potentially disturbing topics such as child sexual abuse material, exploitation imagery, and grooming-related content. Wellness support is provided. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. For this role, the hiring team would prefer folks to be in the office 1-2 days a week. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 to $225,000 + equity + benefits.