Discord
Associate Product Counsel, Safety
San Francisco Bay Area · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
Requirements
- Experience with gaming platforms, social platforms, or UGC platforms.
- Experience with Trust & Safety operations, content moderation systems, or detection/classifier model development.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 to $225,000 + equity + benefits.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
Company info
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
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