Associate Product Counsel, Safety

Discord•San Francisco, CA

30d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Discord's Product Legal team partners directly with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and cross-functional teams to provide legal guidance and strategy that helps Discord launch new products and grow our user base. We help teams navigate complex legal landscapes while achieving their product goals by seeing around corners to identify risks and opportunities before they become roadblocks. As Associate Product Counsel, Safety, you'll be a key member of our Product Legal team, partnering directly with our Safety Product organization. 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with gaming platforms, social platforms, or UGC platforms.
Experience with Trust & Safety operations, content moderation systems, or detection/classifier model development.
Knowledge of international online safety frameworks (EU Digital Services Act, Brazilian Digital ECA, UK Online Safety Act, Australia Online Safety Act, or analogous regimes).
Knowledge of online safety regulations and frameworks in the United States (Take It Down Act, COPPA, US-state age appropriate design or age assurance laws)
Exposure to child safety regulation and age-appropriate design requirements.
Experience developing legal operations infrastructure (playbooks, reviewer guidance, training, tracking systems).

Responsibilities

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.