Associate Product Counsel (Safety)

Join Discord's Legal team as an Associate Product Counsel focused on Safety. You'll provide legal guidance and strategy to help launch new products and grow our user base. Your work will directly impact user safety for millions of users.

• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to turn complex regulatory text into clear, operational guidance that product and engineering teams can actually implement
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners and communicate complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences
• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 4+ years of legal experience, ideally combining law firm and in-house experience at a consumer-facing technology company
• Strong business judgment and the ability to provide practical, creative advice on challenging online safety and legal topics
• 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
• Self-starter with excellent project management skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• Admission to the California Bar or eligible to register as in-house counsel with the California Bar
• 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)