Product Counsel
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will advise on consumer products from design through launch and post-launch review. You will guide teams on consumer protection, privacy, data use, marketing, subscriptions, security, AI transparency, and regulatory matters. You will lead legal reviews, respond to complaints and regulator inquiries, assess escalations, monitor legal developments, and build scalable legal guidance and processes.
Requirements
- J.D., LL.M., or equivalent law degree and authorization to practice law in the U.S. state where located
- At least five years of relevant legal experience
- Consumer protection or product counseling experience
- Knowledge of U.S. consumer protection law, Section 5 of the FTC Act, and UDAP laws
- Experience with subscriptions, advertising, privacy, data protection, payments, promotions, platform regulation, or AI governance
- Ability to lead product or regulatory matters independently
- Legal writing
- Ability to translate legal requirements for product, engineering, and business teams
- Knowledge of technical systems, data flows, and controls
Responsibilities
- Advise on consumer products and features from early design through launch and post-launch review
- Advise on consumer protection, disclosures, pricing, subscriptions, renewals, refunds, promotions, advertising claims, dark patterns, and support practices
- Review marketing, growth, advertising, adtech, martech, messaging, and product claims
- Counsel product and engineering teams on privacy, data use, consent, retention, security, AI transparency, and age-related protections
- Lead legal reviews of cross-functional launches
- Support responses to consumer complaints and regulator inquiries
- Assess product, privacy, consumer protection, contractual, and regulatory incidents and escalations
- Monitor AI and online-services legal developments and create guidance and product requirements
- Build legal templates, review standards, decision records, training, and self-service guidance
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter accounts
- Dependent care accounts
- Region-tailored benefits for full-time employees outside the U.S.