Mesh
Senior Product & Privacy Counsel
New York, NY. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design teams from ideation through launch. You will advise on privacy, intellectual property, financial regulation, and consumer protection.
What you will do
- Serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design
- Advise on privacy and data protection by design
- Own product intellectual property matters including open-source software license review
- Manage trademark strategy and the trademark portfolio
- Support patent strategy including invention harvesting and disclosures
- Advise on financial regulation including money transmission and BSA/AML
- Advise on consumer protection including UDAP/UDAAP and required disclosures
- Draft and negotiate product-related terms
- Partner with Compliance, Information Security, Marketing, and Regulatory
- Build scalable processes for product legal review and risk assessments
Required qualifications
- JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams
- Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment
- Working knowledge of privacy and data protection
- Working knowledge of intellectual property as it applies to software products
- Working knowledge of US financial regulation
Nice to have
- Privacy certification (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E)
- Exposure to EU, UK, LATAM, or APAC regulatory regimes
- Experience helping scale a legal function in a high-growth company
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited PTO
- Dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications
- Remote-friendly approach
- Top-tier tools and equipment
About the company
Mesh aims to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset by making crypto payments reliable and ubiquitous. The company is building infrastructure for the next era of the global economy.