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Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 / annual
Owner is an AI-native platform helping local business owners (starting with restaurants) run and grow their operations. The company has generated tens of millions in revenue since 2020, processed over a billion dollars in online orders, and serves over 20,000 restaurant owners. Owner is building an integrated system that replaces multiple tools—covering websites, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more—with AI-powered features that drive demand, convert customers, and optimize day-to-day operations.
You will be Owner's first Senior Corporate Counsel, embedded within the Product and Engineering organizations. Reporting to the Head of Legal, you'll serve as the primary legal advisor for product launches, AI features, and payments infrastructure. This is an early-stage legal hire with significant ownership over how the company builds compliant, well-designed products from inception.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as embedded legal counsel to Product, Engineering, and Payments teams, advising on new features, AI-powered tools, pricing models, and payments integrations from concept through launch.
- Own legal review of AI-related products and features, including training data sourcing, model risk, algorithmic decision-making, and required disclosures.
- Advise on regulatory compliance for payments and fintech-adjacent products, including embedded payments, money movement, card network rules, and PCI-DSS considerations.
- Build and maintain privacy program elements relevant to product: data collection and retention practices, consumer disclosures, and compliance with CCPA/CPRA and other state privacy laws.
- Monitor emerging AI regulation (state AI laws, FTC guidance, international frameworks) and translate it into practical product guidance.
- Draft and negotiate technology, data, and AI vendor agreements, including data and model licensing terms.
- Advise on digital accessibility compliance for product and engineering (ADA Title III risk, WCAG conformance) and counsel teams on accessible design before launch.
- Partner with the General Counsel and business teams on regulatory risk assessments for new markets, products, and features.
- Build scalable playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools so product and engineering teams can move quickly with appropriate guardrails.
- Support incident response for privacy or AI-related issues, coordinating across engineering, security, and communications.
- Manage outside counsel on discrete regulatory, payments, or AI matters as needed.
Requirements:
- J.D. and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 6+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house product counsel experience at a technology company.
- Direct experience advising on AI/ML products, with familiarity with the emerging AI regulatory landscape.
- Experience with fintech or payments products (embedded payments, money movement, card issuing, or similar).
- Substantive privacy law experience (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and state comprehensive privacy laws).
- Experience in restaurant technology, hospitality tech, or vertical SaaS strongly preferred.
- Strong builder mentality, with experience creating processes, playbooks, and standards rather than just applying existing ones.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance for product and engineering teams.
- Comfort working independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with incomplete information.
