Mesh
Senior Product & Privacy Counsel
$250K–$280K
New York, NY +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams.
- Education
- JD
About the job
Advises product, engineering, and design teams on legal issues from product conception through launch, with a focus on privacy, intellectual property, financial regulation, and consumer protection.
What you'll do
- Advise on product privacy, data protection, intellectual property, financial regulation, and consumer protection; draft product terms and disclosures.
- Partner across teams to align product decisions with licensing posture and risk appetite, and build scalable legal review and sign-off processes.
- Track regulatory developments and provide actionable product guidance.
What they ask for
- JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
- Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment.
- Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, software-product intellectual property, and US financial regulation.
- Practical, risk-based judgment and strong cross-functional collaboration.
Nice to have
- Privacy certification (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E).
- Exposure to EU, UK, LATAM, or APAC regulatory regimes; experience scaling a legal function in a high-growth company.
Pay
$250,000 — $280,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
GLBA, Safeguards Rule, GDPR, BSA/AML, CIPP/US, CIPP/E
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