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Senior Legal Counsel, Product

TRM Labs · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteLegal$193k–$215k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Need to extract from posting. We need to remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions, interview process, life at TRM, AI Fluency, Leadership Principles, Join our Mission, etc. Keep only substantive info about role. Let's parse the posting: - Intro: "Build a Safer World..." description of company. Might be considered "About the role"? Actually that's company overview. Could be placed under "About the role" maybe. But we need to decide. The posting includes sections: "The Role", "What You'll Do", "What We're Looking For", "What Success Looks Like", then application instructions etc. We need to map to headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content goes where. - About the role: could be the introductory paragraph describing the role: "We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, Product to serve as one of the primary legal partners for TRM's Product and Engineering organizations. You will advise on the legal implications of product decisions from conception through launch — with a particular focus on how TRM collects, uses, and delivers blockchain data, and how it builds AI-powered features on top of it. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of legal, product, and business strategy. You will report into the Assistant General Counsel and be embedded in the product development lifecycle — sitting in roadmap reviews, spec discussions, and launch-readiness processes, and working directly with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and GTM teams. You are expected to operate independently, exercise sound judgment under ambiguity, and translate legal requirements into practical guidance that teams can actually execute. TRM's products process sensitive data across dozens of jurisdictions on behalf of governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses. The product legal questions we face — around data sourcing, AI/ML, intellectual property, and novel regulatory frameworks — are novel, high-stakes, and consequential. This role is for a senior lawyer who thrives in that environment." That seems appropriate for About the role. - Responsibilities: "What You'll Do" bullet list. Let's extract each bullet: Serve as legal partner to Product and Engineering, advising on the legal implications of product decisions from conception through launch across TRM's product portfolio. Advise our Blockchain Intelligence and Data teams on data collection methods and practices, data sourcing and licensing, and the permissible use of first- and third-party data. Counsel on the development and deployment of AI/ML features — including model training, data inputs and outputs, transparency, and emerging AI regulatory requirements. Advise on intellectual property matters relevant to the product, including ownership, licensing, and open-source use. Draft and refine product-facing legal terms, including terms of service, acceptable use policies, data terms, and customer-facing product documentation. Partner closely with Privacy Counsel on the privacy and data-protection implications of product specs, technical architectures, and data flows, with an eye toward legal risk, data minimization, and regulatory compliance. Identify legal and regulatory risks in proposed product features and recommend practical mitigations that preserve product momentum. Build scalable legal frameworks, playbooks, and self-service resources so Product and Engineering teams can move quickly with legal clarity. Collaborate with other members of the Legal team on regulatory matters, commercial agreements, and special projects as needed. These are responsibilities. - Requirements: maybe "What We're Looking For" includes J.D., bar membership, experience, etc. That could be Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements; but we need separate sections if content distinct. Could treat "What We're Looking For" as Requirements, and maybe "What Success Looks Like" as Qualifications? Or Skills? Let's see. "What Success Looks Like" describes expectations for first 90 days and six months. That could be Qualifications? Actually it's about performance expectations, maybe could be considered Qualifications or maybe not needed. The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. We have content for Success Looks Like; we could map to Qualifications (since it's about what success looks like). Or we could treat as "Qualifications". However we also have "Skills" section maybe from bullet points like "Strong commercial instincts", "Comfort operating in ambiguous...", "Clear, direct communicator", "Comfort with AI tooling", etc. Those are skills/competencies. Thus we can map: - About the role: intro paragraph. - Responsibilities: the "What You'll Do" list. - Requirements: J.D., bar membership, 6-8 years experience, etc. - Qualifications: maybe the "What Success Looks Like" (first 90 days, six months) OR we could treat as "Qualifications" about expected achievements. - Skills: the bullet points under "What We're Looking For" after experience: "Strong commercial instincts — you understand the business context behind legal questions and give advice that helps teams make decisions, not avoid them. Comfort operating in ambiguous, cross-jurisdictional environments where the right answer isn't always obvious, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines with minimal supervision. Clear, direct communicator who can translate legal complexity for non-lawyer stakeholders, with the executive presence to engage senior stakeholders, external partners, and outside counsel. Comfort with AI tooling and integrating it into legal workflows. Experience advising companies that serve government or financial institution customers is a plus. Familiarity with blockchain, cryptocurrency, or fintech is a plus but not required." These are skills/attributes. - Benefits, Pay, Schedule: posting does not mention any benefits, pay, schedule. So we should NOT include those sections. Thus we will output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to use

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    for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to ensure we include all details from the sections we selected. Let's extract exact text. About the role: We'll take the paragraph(s) after "The Role" heading up to before "What You'll Do". The text: "We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, Product to serve as one of the primary legal partners for TRM's Product and Engineering organizations. You will advise on the legal implications of product decisions from conception through launch — with a particular focus on how TRM collects, uses, and delivers blockchain data, and how it builds AI-powered features on top of it. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of legal, product, and business strategy. You will report into the Assistant General Counsel and be embedded in the product development lifecycle — sitting in roadmap reviews, spec discussions, and launch-readiness processes, and working directly with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and GTM teams. You are expected to operate independently, exercise sound judgment under ambiguity, and translate legal requirements into practical guidance that teams can actually execute. TRM's products process sensitive data across dozens of jurisdictions on behalf of governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses. The product legal questions we face — around data sourcing, AI/ML, intellectual property, and novel regulatory frameworks — are novel, high-stakes, and consequential. This role is for a senior lawyer who thrives in that environment." We'll put that in a

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  • . Requirements: The "What We're Looking For" first part: "J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and active bar membership in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar. 6–8 years of legal experience at a reputable law firm and/or in-house at a technology company, with a substantial focus on product counseling. Demonstrated experience advising Product and Engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle, ideally for data-intensive or AI-powered products. Working knowledge of the legal issues that shape technology products — data use and licensing, intellectual property, AI/ML, consumer-facing terms, and how privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) intersect with product decisions." We'll put that as
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      • . Let's extract skills text exactly: "Strong commercial instincts — you understand the business context behind legal questions and give advice that helps teams make decisions, not avoid them. Comfort operating in ambiguous, cross-jurisdictional environments where the right answer isn't always obvious, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines with minimal supervision. Clear, direct communicator who can translate legal complexity for non-lawyer stakeholders, with the executive presence to engage senior stakeholders, external partners, and outside counsel. Comfort with AI tooling and integrating it into legal workflows. Experience advising companies that serve government or financial institution customers is a plus. Familiarity with blockchain, cryptocurrency, or fintech is a plus but not required." We'll put each as
      • . Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive content: The "What Success Looks Like" includes: "In your first 90 days, you will have a firm command of TRM's product portfolio, data flows, and existing legal posture, and will have built relationships with Product and Engineering leads and begun showing up proactively in product development conversations. Within six months, you will be the trusted, go-to legal partner for the product organization — having stood up scalable frameworks that let teams move quickly with legal clarity, and established yourself as a practical, commercially-minded partner across the company." We'll put that as

        maybe two sentences. Now check for any other substantive content like "TRM is a Series C company..." etc. That's company info, not role-specific; could be considered About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's about company funding, headquarters. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The company overview at start maybe not boilerplate but it's about TRM mission. Could be considered part of About the role? The intro "Build a Safer World..." is more about company mission. Might be considered not role-specific but still substantive. However we already have About the role paragraph that describes the role. The company overview could be omitted as not directly about the role. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." It's okay to omit company overview if not directly about role. But we might include it in About the role to give context. However the instruction says: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

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