Product Counsel at Grindr in San Francisco, CA

Job description

About the Team: Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and tackle technical problems at a scale few companies ever see. Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood - a more useful, expansive, and intelligent digital home for our community. With more than 80% of our users living outside the United States, we operate at a scale, speed, and level of global complexity few consumer technology companies face. That means significant product innovation, with much of it enabled by AI, across the ways our users discover, connect, communicate, and participate in community. The legal questions are correspondingly interesting and consequential. The Legal team sits at the center of that work, partnering across Product, Engineering, Design, and Trust & Safety. We are looking for an exceptional Product Legal expert to serve as a strategic legal partner to Grindr’s product, engineering, design, and trust and safety teams. This is not a role for someone who wants to review products at the end of the development process. You will help shape product strategy and design from the beginning, identifying issues early, translating complex legal requirements into clear product choices, and helping Grindr move quickly and responsibly through ambiguity. At Grindr, we operate in Grindr Mode. Moderately hardcore day to day, truly hardcore when it counts. It’s about doing great work without burning out. Outcomes over outputs. Smart, driven people who raise your bar, with room to live full lives. This is a hybrid role based in our Los Angeles, SF, NYC or offices and will require you to be in person Tuesdays and Thursdays. About the Job: • Serve as the primary day-to-day legal partner to our Product Development teams (Product Management, Engineering, Design, Data, Trust & Safety) across the full product lifecycle. • Advise on innovative, AI-enabled product features and experiences as we build out the digital global gayborhood, including personalization and recommendations, location-based products, subscriptions and payments, and new growth initiatives. • Help product teams develop clear, user-centered approaches to disclosure, consent, education, and choice. • Serve as the hub connecting Product Development teams with other subject matter experts across the Legal & Privacy team and outside counsel, while retaining issue ownership and driving toward a clear business answer. • Work closely with our dedicated Privacy team on matters involving sensitive data, notice and consent, user controls, data-sharing practices, DSAR rights, and privacy-by-design. • Build and maintain scalable legal tools, playbooks, review processes, and decision frameworks that bring Legal into the right conversations early without slowing the organization down. • Counsel senior stakeholders, including executives and the Board of Directors, on the legal issues most central to Grindr’s next chapter: AI regulation and governance; online safety; age assurance; consumer protection; and platform regulation across the U.S., Europe, India, Brazil, and other key markets. Role Requirements: • At least 8 years of experience, including significant in-house experience, providing product counseling to dynamic consumer internet businesses, with a demonstrated track record of excellence and professional advancement. • Exceptional legal judgment and the ability to turn difficult, unsettled legal questions into practical recommendations that product and business leaders can act on with confidence. • Strong cross-functional instincts and the credibility to partner effectively with product leaders, engineers, designers, and executives. • Demonstrated ability to create clarity and scalable process in fast-moving, ambiguous environments - you know how to keep the organization moving without sacrificing rigor. • J.D. from an accredited law school, a strong academic r