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Bumble is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel, Product to serve as a strategic legal partner to Product, Engineering, AI/ML, Design, and Trust & Safety teams. This role is central to ensuring Bumble's products—including Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo—are innovative, responsible, and legally compliant throughout their entire development lifecycle.
You will act as one of two primary legal advisors to product and engineering teams, providing guidance from initial design through launch and iteration. Key focus areas include generative AI, online safety, content acquisition, IP/copyright, open source, and privacy issues. You'll collaborate closely with stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, AI/ML, Compliance, and InfoSec to deliver clear, actionable legal advice that balances innovation with risk management.
Responsibilities include:
- Advising on emerging product areas with emphasis on generative AI, online safety, content acquisition, IP/copyright, open source, and privacy
- Ensuring compliance with data protection and privacy laws (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, online safety laws, and related international frameworks)
- Implementing scalable legal processes, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency and reduce cycle times
- Serving as legal project manager, coordinating input across teams to deliver integrated feedback to product teams
- Promoting privacy-by-design, safety-by-design, transparency, and member-first principles
- Partnering with product, policy, trust & safety, and engineering teams on responsible product development and risk assessments
- Supporting Trust and Safety escalations and transparency reports
- Creating playbooks, checklists, and scalable legal tools to support agile development
- Building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and communicating complex legal concepts clearly
Bumble's mission is to create a world where healthy and equitable relationships thrive through platforms powered by trust, transparency, and innovation. This is an opportunity to shape how legal thinking informs next-generation technology in a company that prioritizes member safety and experience.
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
- Proven expertise advising product teams in areas such as privacy law, platform liability, and consumer protection
- Strong working knowledge of global privacy and data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, UK DPA)
- Strong working knowledge of online safety laws (age verification laws, Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act)
- Demonstrated experience coordinating across multiple legal disciplines to ensure end-to-end coverage of regulatory and compliance risks
- Product mindset with ability to embed legal solutions into design processes, UX, and system architecture
- Track record of influencing without authority, managing complex cross-functional projects, and supporting innovation at scale
- Strong process orientation and focus on efficiency
- Commitment to Bumble's mission and values, and passion for building technologies that support healthy online experiences
- Must be based in Austin or New York
