Product Counsel

Nex • San Jose, CA

3d • Remote

About The Position

Nex is seeking a seasoned Product Counsel to serve as the primary legal partner for its Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, Design, and Marketing teams. This role involves advising across the entire product lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on privacy and children's privacy compliance. The Product Counsel will manage Nex's privacy program, including COPPA compliance, data collection practices involving cameras and AI, and consent mechanisms. Additionally, they will provide counsel on consumer protection, intellectual property, emerging AI regulations, and other legal matters related to new hardware features, games, and content. This is a senior, independent position focused on building a product legal function from the ground up, including establishing privacy programs, product review processes, and AI governance approaches, with the potential to grow this function as Nex scales.

Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing (California or another U.S. state, as applicable).
• 4-7+ years of relevant legal experience, combining law firm and in-house product counseling at a technology or consumer products company.
• Deep, hands-on experience with children's privacy compliance (COPPA, age-appropriate design frameworks, GDPR-K or similar).
• Experience advising product, engineering, and design teams throughout the full product development lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of consumer protection law as applied to subscriptions, promotions, and marketing claims.
• Comfort advising on emerging AI/computer vision regulatory questions, even without a technical background, and genuine interest in the underlying technology.
• A builder's mindset: comfortable creating playbooks, review processes, and governance frameworks from scratch.
• Excellent judgment translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal audiences under real deadlines.
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills and a low-ego, collaborative approach.

Nice To Haves

• Privacy certification (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or similar), or willingness to obtain one.
• Experience in consumer hardware, consumer electronics, gaming, or toy/kids' products.
• Experience supporting sweepstakes, contests, or promotions tied to consumer products or subscriptions.
• Exposure to patent or trademark strategy in a product/engineering context.
• Experience advising on international product launches and multi-jurisdictional compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own Nex's privacy program end-to-end, including COPPA compliance, data mapping for camera- and AI-driven products, vendor data processing agreements, and consent/disclosure flows for a child-centric product.
• Draft, review, and maintain Nex's privacy policy, terms of service, and parental consent flows, including for new international markets and regional children's/data protection frameworks.
• Advise Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, and Design on privacy-by-design principles and age-appropriate product experiences from ideation through launch.
• Monitor the evolving children's privacy and online safety regulatory landscape (COPPA, state age-appropriate design laws, GDPR-K, etc.) and translate developments into actionable product guidance.
• Serve as the point of contact for privacy incidents, regulatory inquiries, and data subject/parental requests, escalating as needed.
• Act as the escalation point for Legal Operations and Commercial Counsel on privacy or COPPA questions in vendor, commercial, or operational contexts.
• Review new features, hardware capabilities, and AI/motion-detection functionality for legal risk from concept through launch.
• Advise on consumer protection issues related to Play Pass and other subscription or in-product offerings, including disclosures, auto-renewal compliance, and promotions.
• Review product user experiences, in-app disclosures, and marketing/advertising materials to mitigate legal risk.
• Provide guidance on emerging AI regulation as it applies to Nex's computer vision and motion-detection technology.
• Flag physical product safety and liability considerations arising from hardware feature design to the GC and outside counsel.
• Support IP strategy for product innovation, including facilitating invention harvesting and patent-strategy conversations, and advising on trademark use in-product.
• Build playbooks, guides, and internal training for Product, Engineering, and Marketing to enable self-service on lower-risk questions.
• Design a scalable legal review process for product launches.
• Partner with Legal Operations on intake triage and template design for product-related legal requests.
• Manage outside counsel on specialized privacy, AI regulatory, product-safety, or IP matters.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree