# Product Counsel

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $193k – $244k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Legal Advice, E-Commerce Law, Privacy Law, GDPR, Payments Law, Saas Agreements, Copyright Law, Advertising Law, AI Tools, Compliance Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Product Counsel embedded with Instacart's product teams to provide strategic legal guidance on new international markets, hardware (Caper carts), and retailer platforms. Advise on e-commerce, privacy, payments, and compliance while using AI tools to streamline processes and act as an enabler to product, engineering, and business teams.

## Job Description

## What you’ll cook up in your first year

- Product teams launching in new international markets have a trusted legal partner who cleared the path — jurisdiction-specific risks identified early, with scalable compliance frameworks that don’t need to be rebuilt for each new market.
- Caper cart and Storefront Pro initiatives ship with confidence because legal requirements are synthesized into clear, actionable guidance that product, engineering, and design teams can act on — not walls they have to work around.
- Cross-functional legal processes are measurably more efficient — you’ve identified leverage points, introduced AI-assisted workflows, and reduced time-to-answer for recurring legal questions across Product, BD, and Operations.
- Instacart’s exposure across consumer protection, payments, privacy, and commercial compliance is well-mapped and proactively managed, with documented risk frameworks and clear escalation paths.
- Business partners across the company describe Legal as an enabler, not a gatekeeper — and you’re the reason why.

## Must-have pantry staples (Minimum Qualifications)

- J.D. from a top-tier law school with active bar membership in at least one U.S. state
- 5+ years of legal experience at a leading law firm or in-house legal department
- Familiarity with legal issues in Internet and e-commerce spaces (copyright, privacy, advertising, payments, SaaS)
- Ability to provide clear, concise legal advice and drive results cross-functionally
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment
- Comfort working with AI tools to drive efficiency and streamline legal processes

## Optional garnishes (Preferred Qualifications)

- In-house experience at a tech company or retailer, directly or via secondment
- Experience with technology platforms
- Background in corporate, pharmaceutical, alcohol, or privacy/data security law (including GDPR and US-EU Privacy Shield)

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