Counsel, Consumer Product Legal

4 Months ago • 3 Years + • Legal • $250,000 PA - $530,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Netflix seeks a Counsel to join its Product & Tech Legal Team in the Consumer Product Group, based in Los Gatos. This role involves collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering teams on growth and commerce initiatives. Responsibilities include assessing risks for new consumer-facing experiences, providing legal guidance on privacy, IP, consumer protection, and other relevant issues. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in product legal roles, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to navigate a fast-paced environment. They will work with the Consumer Protection team on global strategies, offering risk-calibrated guidance and developing relevant expertise. The role demands strategic thinking and the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical business solutions.
Must have:
  • 3+ years product legal experience
  • Consumer protection, privacy, IP expertise
  • Collaboration with product/engineering teams
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Strong communication and legal judgment
Good to have:
  • Experience with consumer-facing digital products
  • Growth and commerce initiative experience
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Mental health support
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Stock option program
  • Disability programs
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible time off

Job Details

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

To entertain the world is no small task, so we rely on really smart people who know a lot about how technology and data can create great content and high-quality member experiences globally. Our mission as a team is to empower product innovation at Netflix by delivering impactful, effective legal support. We don’t sit in a dark corner of the Upside Down holding a giant ‘no’ stamp; we are an integrated part of product development, partnering with our product managers, stakeholders, designers, engineers and data scientists from ideation to launch. We drive strategic, effective collaboration with cross-functional and regional legal partners and think critically about how we can keep scaling the impact of our team.

We’re looking for a dynamic Counsel to join the Product & Tech Legal Team as part of the Consumer Product Group. This role reports to the Senior Director, Product & Tech Legal (Consumer) and is based in Los Gatos.  

A successful counsel will be passionate about helping our business partners discern a practical real-world risk from a theoretical one, and providing business-focused legal support and guidance to the Product team.

Responsibilities

  • Working closely with product, design, and engineering teams on growth and commerce initiatives to understand and assess risks for new consumer-facing experiences, from ideation to launch

  • Providing risk-calibrated legal guidance to support consumer product innovation, counseling the business on privacy, IP, consumer protection and other issues while coordinating with subject matter experts as needed

  • Developing expertise on our consumer product to help ensure we are able to advance business objectives

  • Working closely with our Consumer Protection team to support global consumer protection strategy, including supporting practical, risk-calibrated guidance on consumer protection issues and developing relevant working expertise

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in product legal roles, working directly with product managers, engineers, and designers to provide practical and risk-calibrated legal guidance

  • Experience counseling on consumer protection, privacy, IP, marketing and other issues 

  • Strong track record demonstrating a collaborative approach, effective communication skills, and excellent legal/business judgment

  • Strategic and creative thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment characterized by ambiguity

  • Demonstrated curiosity and ability to master new areas of tech and law

Preferred 

  • Experience with consumer-facing digital products/services, in particular growth and commerce initiatives

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $250,000 - $530,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more

is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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