Product Safety Counsel

Imagine what you could do here. New ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Do you love products? Do you love solving problems? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced and exciting environment? Do you enjoy working on matters that touch customers all over the world? As a part of our legal team, you’ll help uphold high ethical and corporate standards and provide legal support for all our products across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your expertise to rare and often unexplored areas of the law. You’ll work with engineering, operations, and marketing teams to help create and introduce products to the world. With passion, dedication, and a desire to tackle challenges, you will play a crucial role as we provide the legal support needed to continue to build cutting-edge technologies.

You will join a team of attorneys who advise product integrity, engineering, customer support, operations, marketing, regulatory compliance, and risk management teams on a wide range of issues. This is an opportunity to apply your skills in a non-litigation setting, broaden your advisory range, and forge creative solutions to help the company mitigate risk, resolve disputes, and manage regulatory compliance. You will support various functional groups with legal guidance on product integrity and compliance issues arising in new product development. You’ll strategize, draft, and coordinate responses to agency inquiries, investigations, and document requests. You’ll support AppleCare, Executive Relations, and Risk Management in resolving customer issues, and manage outside counsel in the investigation, defense, and resolution of pre-litigation claims. You will also advise management on risk allocation/mitigation, business strategies, and policies.

• JD degree or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar
• 2+ years of experience in product liability litigation and/or product safety regulatory investigations

• Experience with product counseling, consumer law, and product regulatory issues
• Ability to handle your own high-volume workload on day-to-day matters
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple range of matters supporting multiple cross-functional teams
• Ability to distill complex legal concepts into practical guidance for non-lawyers
• Crisp and clear communication style
• Ability to advise executive management, and facilitate teamwork by cultivating relationships, counseling, collaborating, and effectively communicating with teammates and cross-functional partners
• Positive attitude
• Ability to see beyond the precise question asked to larger issues and implications

Base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $200,700 and $301,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Employees also have the opportunity to become a shareholder through participation in discretionary employee stock programs. Employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Benefits.

Note: Benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

This is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant