Full-Time
Product Counsel
Updated on 8/1/2026
Tools for Humanity
201-500 employees
Develops global digital identity and currency
Compensation Overview
$255k - $300k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
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- At least 4 years of experience as product counsel, preferably including in-house product counseling experience supporting consumer technology, financial technology, blockchain, digital identity, or other highly regulated technology platforms.
- Significant experience advising on complex product counseling issues across the full product lifecycle, including product development, feature launches, user experience design, go-to-market initiatives, and ongoing operational support.
- Demonstrated knowledge of laws and regulatory frameworks relating to several of the following areas: financial services, blockchain technology, digital identity systems, artificial intelligence, privacy, biometrics, consumer protection, online safety, advertising and marketing, platform governance, and intellectual property.
- Experience supporting globally distributed consumer products and navigating multi-jurisdictional legal and regulatory issues.
- Familiarity with intellectual property concepts, including patents, trademarks, copyright, licensing, open source software, and technology risk management.
- Ability to engage effectively with technical teams and understand complex systems, architectures, and product tradeoffs.
- Strong business judgment and ability to balance legal risk, user experience, operational realities, and product velocity.
- Comfort operating in evolving legal and regulatory environments where clear precedent may not exist.
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships across legal, engineering, product, design, research, security, and operations teams.
- Ability to translate technical or legal concepts into practical, business-oriented guidance.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail.
- Practical, business-oriented approach to problem solving and risk assessment.
- Ability to work in-person from San Francisco, California.
- Juris Doctor from a top-tier law school.
- Membership in at least one United States state bar.
- Serve as a legal partner to product, engineering, hardware, cryptography, design, and security teams across the development and launch lifecycle of Tools for Humanity products and infrastructure.
- Advise on legal and regulatory issues relating to digital identity systems, biometrics, blockchain-enabled products, consumer financial technologies, privacy, consumer protection, online safety, platform governance, and artificial intelligence-enabled systems.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to assess legal and reputational risks associated with new features, products, experiments, and business models.
- Help develop practical and scalable approaches for launching products globally across diverse and evolving regulatory environments.
- Translate complex legal and policy considerations into clear, actionable guidance for technical and business stakeholders.
- Draft and advise on product terms, disclosures, policies, user flows, and internal guidance materials.
- Support incident response, product escalations, and cross-functional reviews relating to trust, safety, security, and user risk issues.
- Advise on intellectual property issues relating to software, hardware, artificial intelligence systems, cryptography, identity technologies, branding, and consumer products.
- Support patent, trademark, copyright, licensing, open source, and technology risk management matters.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to identify and help protect strategic innovations and inventions.
- Help develop scalable internal processes relating to open source governance, invention capture, product review, and intellectual property compliance.
- Collaborate across legal specialties, including commercial, privacy, regulatory, employment, litigation, security, and corporate legal functions.
- Help build scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, and review frameworks that improve consistency and organizational velocity.
- Contribute to improving operational systems and tooling supporting product reviews and launches.
- Support the development of practical guidance and self-service resources for business and product teams.
What Tools for Humanity does: It develops Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital identity project aimed at building a global financial and identity network. How its product works: A hardware device called the Orb scans a person’s iris to create a unique, privacy-preserving digital identity called a World ID, and Worldcoin (WLD) tokens are distributed to individuals who sign up. How it differs from competitors: It combines biometrics-based identity verification (iris scans) with crypto onboarding to rapidly grow a global user base, focusing on financial inclusion in developing markets, and offering free Worldcoin tokens to new users. What its goal is: to establish a worldwide financial and identity network with broad user adoption, enabling access to financial services and verifiable identity through a shared crypto-based system.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$240M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Enterprise verification tests with Tinder, Zoom, and DocuSign open a B2B channel.[6]
- World Chain prioritizes verified humans, strengthening the network’s utility around human-first access.[12]
- Local Orb operators can scale distribution with lower upfront capital requirements.[6]
What critics are saying
- Kenya banned World operations, directly blocking growth in a major target market.[HRK News Bureau, June 11, 2026]
- South Korea fined the company $830,000 for alleged privacy-law violations.[HRK News Bureau, June 11, 2026]
- The company is cutting jobs because iris-scanning revenue still lacks a steady business model.[HRK News Bureau, June 11, 2026]
What makes Tools for Humanity unique
- World ID uses Orb iris scans to prove unique personhood without revealing identity.[2][12]
- World App bundles identity verification, payments, and transfers in one consumer product.[2][13]
- WLD distribution gives users free token incentives for signing up and verifying.[2][4]
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↑ 9%Large-Scale Interior Sign Painting for World's San Francisco flagship store. When Tools for Humanity opened the flagship retail location for World at 281 Geary Street in downtown San Francisco, they wanted the space to make an immediate impression. Located just steps from Union Square, the store features soaring walls and an open floor plan designed to welcome visitors into the World ecosystem. To help activate the expansive interior, Maxfield Bala Creative was commissioned to create two large-scale hand-painted typographic installations spanning the primary walls of the retail space. A bold first impression. The concept was simple but impactful. Upon entering the store, visitors are greeted by the word UNIQUE painted at monumental scale across the left wall. Directly opposite, the phrase HUMANS OF SF stretches across the right side of the space. Together, the two graphics establish a visual dialogue across the interior while reinforcing themes of individuality, identity, and community. The oversized lettering was intentionally designed to work with the architecture of the building, taking advantage of the tall ceilings and long sightlines to create an immersive branded environment that can be experienced from multiple perspectives throughout the store. Hand-Painted at architectural scale. Projects of this size require significantly more planning than a typical sign installation. The process began with carefully scaling the artwork to fit the dimensions of the space while maintaining legibility from both near and far viewing distances. Once the layout was finalized, each graphic was transferred, masked, and painted directly onto the walls by hand. Unlike printed graphics or vinyl applications, hand-painted signage becomes integrated into the architecture itself, creating a finish that feels permanent, intentional, and custom to the space. Designed for San Francisco. The messaging chosen for the installation reflects both the mission of World and the city surrounding the store. UNIQUE serves as a celebration of individual identity, while HUMANS OF SF creates a direct connection to the people and communities that make San Francisco one of the world's most diverse and innovative cities. Together, the graphics help establish the tone of the flagship location while creating memorable visual moments for visitors moving through the space. Transforming the customer experience. Large-scale environmental graphics have the ability to completely change how a space feels. What would otherwise be expansive blank walls become defining architectural features that help guide visitors through the environment while reinforcing brand identity at every turn. For the World flagship store, the finished installation creates an unmistakable first impression and helps transform the interior into a space that feels uniquely connected to both the brand and the city it serves. Project details. Client: Tools for Humanity / World Location: 281 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 Project Type: Large-Scale Interior Sign Painting Scope: Hand-Painted Environmental Graphics & Architectural Typography Featured Graphics: "UNIQUE" and "HUMANS OF SF" Looking for a sign painter in San Francisco? Maxfield Bala Creative specializes in large-scale sign painting, hand-painted typography, environmental graphics, murals, and custom branding installations for retail, hospitality, corporate, and public spaces throughout the Bay Area. About Maxfield Bala Creative. Maxfield Bala Creative specializes in custom murals, hand-painted signage, experiential branding, and large-format artwork for retail, commercial, and public environments throughout California and beyond. From flagship stores and branded retail experiences to corporate campuses and public spaces, Maxfield Bala help businesses transform ordinary walls into memorable visual experiences. Its work combines traditional sign-painting craftsmanship with modern branding strategies to create artwork that enhances customer engagement and strengthens a sense of place. For the Tools for Humanity flagship store in San Francisco, its team was commissioned to create custom hand-painted interior typography designed to complement the brand's mission and elevate the visitor experience. Projects like this demonstrate how thoughtful, site-specific artwork can help communicate a brand's story while creating a more engaging physical environment. Interested in custom murals, hand-painted signage, or branded interior artwork for your business? Contact Maxfield Bala Creative to discuss your next project.
World, co-founded by Sam Altman, has released AgentKit, a verification tool designed to confirm real humans are behind AI shopping agents. The beta tool, developed by Tools for Humanity, addresses growing concerns about fraud and abuse as more consumers use AI programmes to browse websites and make purchases autonomously. AgentKit integrates World ID—derived from iris scans via World's Orb device—into the x402 protocol, a blockchain-based payment system developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. This allows websites to verify that a distinct human approves an AI agent's purchasing decisions without requiring human intervention at each transaction step. The tool is currently available to developers in beta. Users need a verified World ID from an Orb scan to qualify for verification, positioning World as a potential stability provider for the expanding agentic commerce sector.
World launches "proof of human" Beta to combat ai-generated content. Sam Altman's company World focuses on developing "proof of human" technology for identity verification, aiming to address an internet flooded with low-quality AI-generated material. Interestingly, Altman's other venture, OpenAI, is often cited as a major source of such content, though one might note he anticipated these issues when founding World. This week, Tools for Humanity (TFH), the startup responsible for World, launched a beta version of a new verification tool. This tool is intended to advance agentic commerce - the rapidly expanding use of AI programs to browse the web and make purchases automatically for users. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_0 While this trend offers automated convenience, it also introduces risks like fraud, spam, and widespread online abuse. In response, World introduced AgentKit on Tuesday. This software development tool allows commercial websites to integrate a verification system that confirms a real human is authorizing an AI agent's purchases. AgentKit is built around World ID, the core of TFH's verification framework. The most secure form of this ID comes from scanning a user's iris with World's Orb device, which creates a unique, encrypted digital code. This verified World ID grants access to TFH's services through the World app. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_1 With AgentKit, a user's World ID can be linked to the x402 protocol, a blockchain-based open standard developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. This system enables automated programs to transact directly online without constant human input. Users simply register their AI agents with their World ID, which then signals to websites via x402 that a verified human has approved the agent's actions. "AgentKit is built as a complementary extension to the x402 v2 protocol, in coordination with Coinbase," Tools for Humanity stated. "The integration is designed so that any website already using x402 can enable proof of unique human verification alongside (or instead of) micropayments." According to the company, this verification allows websites to assess whether to trust transactions from AI agents. The World ID badge confirms that someone is a genuine, unique person, though sites can still block users suspected of bad faith. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_2 AgentKit is now available in beta to developers, with plans to refine it based on feedback. Users will need a verified World ID from an Orb scan to use this verification method. This launch comes at a pivotal moment, as major e-commerce and financial services adopt agentic commerce. Last year, Amazon and MasterCard added automated buying features, and Google recently introduced its own supporting protocol. As the field expands, the industry will seek reliable safeguards - a role World is clearly aiming to fill as the go-to provider for stability.
Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, aims to reach 1 billion users with its Orb device, which scans irises to create a "World ID" for distinguishing humans from AI online. The company has raised $240 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, with a valuation of $2.5 billion. Despite its ambitious goals, some former employees and experts question its long-term strategy and viability in a competitive market for payment and identification tools.
Tools for Humanity (TFH), a technology company building for humans in the age of AI, has partnered with Outtake to deploy Outtake Verify for Email - a lightweight browser extension that cryptographically signs communication via World ID or unique device passkey - across their organization to protect sensitive workflows.