Associate Product Counsel, Safety

What you'll be doing

• 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.
• Review and assess new safety features and practices from the early design stages and forward.
• Advise on user-facing reporting, appeal, and take-down workflows, as well as the region-specific obligations that may shape them such as the EU’s Digital Services Act or the Take It Down Act in the United States.
• 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.
• 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.

What you should have

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

Bonus points

• 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).