Product Counsel / Senior Product Counsel (AI Platform)

As Product Counsel / Senior Product Counsel, you will act as a key advisor and first point of legal contact to support our product, engineering, and other teams in building the future of the Roblox platform. Our mission as Product Counsel is to become product experts and to provide thoughtful and effective legal advice to help our business teams succeed. To accomplish this, we work closely with other members of the legal team and collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional teams to identify risks while maintaining a keen sense of business judgment. 

This role is dedicated to providing strategic legal advice to internal product and engineering teams, primarily in connection with the Foundation AI product area. The role requires application of complex, evolving legal frameworks to new and innovative products and services. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team, learn about interesting new technologies and business models, and work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

You will report to the Director, Product Legal at our San Mateo offices. 

You Will:

• Act as a trusted advisor to Roblox product, engineering, and operations teams as well as company leadership throughout the product and process development lifecycle to ensure healthy product launches.
• Assist with legal initiatives related to Roblox’s AI products, models, and technologies.
• Ensure compliance with US and international laws and regulations including those concerning artificial intelligence, privacy, copyright, online safety, and consumer protection.
• Coordinate advice with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, marketing, trust & safety, and other internal and external legal counsel.
• Develop internal playbooks, training, drafting policies to raise awareness of laws and regulations applicable to AI products internally with product and engineering teams.
• Stay on top of the latest developments in a fast-changing legal landscape and develop deep expertise in Roblox’s products.
• Build positive and influential relationships company-wide through trusted advising, knowledge-sharing and training.

You Have:

• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, preferably a combination of law firm and in-house experience at a consumer-facing technology company.
• Previous experience counseling AI product teams and/or research teams building foundation models
• Strong business-oriented judgment and the ability to analyze problems, propose solutions, and provide advice that is creative, practical, and legally acceptable, taking into account the needs and objectives of the business.
• An understanding of the letter of the law and are able to approach problems in a practical, principled approach.
• The ability to manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively investigating and identifying issues.
• The desire to work on a small but growing team, and a track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to overcome complex challenges.
• A license to practice law in a US jurisdiction.
• Previous experience counseling kids safety and/or privacy issues.
• Superior communication abilities, with proven experience in cross-functional collaboration and consensus building.
• A track record of educating internal stakeholders, translating complex concepts, and advising on risk mitigation strategies.