Safety & Security Counsel

Responsibilities

• Partner with Safeguards (trust and safety) policy teams to design and iterate usage policies across harm areas, including CBRNE, cybersecurity, user wellbeing, scaled abuse and influence operations, and distillation.
• Advise on policy enforcement frameworks, including account actions, appeals, enforcement systems, and thresholds.
• Counsel on sensitive escalations and strategic responses involving governments, law enforcement, regulators, and the press.
• Advise on safety and security threat-intelligence investigations, bug-bounty and red-team programs, and internal and external testing arrangements.
• Support safeguards, security engineering, machine learning, and data science teams building tooling and detection mechanisms, including data governance and privacy considerations.
• Serve as a first-line legal contact for safety and security incidents, providing real-time incident-response guidance and assessing notification and reporting obligations.
• Build and maintain crisis-management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance.
• Monitor AI safety, security, regulatory, and policy developments and translate them into practical guidance.

Requirements

• Qualified to practice law in England & Wales or another relevant jurisdiction.
• Experience advising on fast-moving, high-stakes matters such as investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement.
• Working knowledge of trust and safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
• Strong legal drafting and writing skills, including policies, playbooks, escalation protocols, or guidance for non-legal audiences.
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters and translating legal analysis into actionable steps for technical and executive audiences.

Nice-to-haves

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience.
• In-house product-counsel experience at a technology company involving security or trust and safety, or law-firm experience advising technology clients on regulatory investigations or enforcement.
• Experience with content moderation, platform safety, user wellbeing, and crisis management.
• Experience working with machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, and threat-intelligence teams.
• Familiarity with AI systems and machine-learning concepts or novel technology products.
• Strong judgment under uncertainty.
• Hands-on, collaborative working style and commitment to users affected by AI misuse.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary: £165,000–£205,000 GBP.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Visa sponsorship may be available.
• Hybrid work arrangement with regular office attendance; this role expects at least 3 days per week in the London office.