Product Counsel

Snapshot

The Google DeepMind Legal team provides proactive and strategic legal counseling to accelerate Google DeepMind’s best-in-class technologies.

We are looking for an adept and enthusiastic Product Counsel to work closely with the Google DeepMind product, engineering and cross-functional teams in order to advise on a variety of legal issues relevant to their work. 

You will collaborate closely with Google DeepMind product and research teams, other members of the legal team, compliance teams, and with outside counsel when needed to address global privacy and regulatory issues arising from cutting-edge consumer product launches. We also help product teams prepare for upcoming global laws and regulations, and provide support on regulatory investigations. 

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

We have a product counsel role available focused on product, privacy, and regulatory counseling across Google Gemini. As a product counsel you will play a key role in counseling high-risk product launches globally, implicating cutting-edge AI, machine-learning, privacy, content, copyright, and competition legal issues. You will help build solutions to successfully land product launches globally. You will work closely with key stakeholders across Global Affairs and the wider company to prepare and comply with existing and upcoming global laws.

Responsibilities:

• Provide front-line individual product, privacy and regulatory counseling for various consumer product launches across Gemini apps.
• Build risk-calibrated solutions to help products comply with existing and upcoming global laws.  
• Lead and support various cross-functional and other projects as needed, including regulatory investigations. 
• Cultivate strong relationships with business and product leaders across Google DeepMind and Gemini teams to identify balanced strategy and solutions for business and legal risks.

About You

In order to set you up for success as at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• Qualified to practice law in a recognized jurisdiction. Qualification in the UK, US, or another major common or civil law jurisdiction is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience working with global content, privacy and security, consumer protection, copyright, and competition laws
• Ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects at once
• Ability to apply Google’s risk principles and make risk calls with imperfect information
• Understanding of technology (Internet, Hardware, Software, ML)
• Sense of humor and love of technology

Location: London (other major GDM locations may be considered)

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