Senior Legal Counsel , Product

About the role

As we continue to evolve and scale responsibly, we are looking for a collaborative, thoughtful, and forward‑thinking Product Counsel to join our Legal team.

Responsibilities

• Act as one of two primary legal advisors to product and engineering teams, providing guidance from initial design through launch and iteration.
• Advise teams on key emerging areas for our core product, with a particular focus on generative AI, online safety, content acquisition, IP/copyright, open source, and privacy issues.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, AI/ML, Compliance, and InfoSec to deliver clear, actionable legal advice that supports innovation while managing risk, increase speed and efficiency, and advance the long‑term goals of Bumble.
• Implement scalable legal processes, automation, and AI‑enabled solutions that improve efficiency, reduce cycle times, and help deliver high‑quality guidance to product and engineering teams with greater speed and consistency.
• Ensure products comply with data protection and privacy laws, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, online safety laws and related U.S. and international frameworks.
• Serve as a legal project manager, coordinating legal input across teams (e.g., privacy, commercial, compliance) to deliver timely, integrated feedback to product teams.
• Promote and implement privacy‑by‑design, safety by design, transparency, and member‑first principles into new and existing products.
• Partner closely with product, policy, trust & safety, and engineering teams to support responsible product development and carry out appropriate risk assessments.
• Help with Trust and Safety escalation and transparency reports.
• Create playbooks, checklists, and scalable legal tools to support agile product development and reduce repetitive requests.
• Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders and communicate complex legal concepts with clarity and confidence.

Requirements

• J.D. degree and active bar membership in good standing in the UK/EU.
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including in‑house at a U.S.-based global tech company or top‑tier law firm advising high‑growth technology businesses.
• Must be based in Austin or New York.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise advising product