Product Counsel
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What the team is looking for.
As a Product & Privacy Counsel at Synthesia, you’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, R&D, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market teams to help bring innovative AI products to market responsibly.
Reporting to the Head of Product & Privacy Legal, you’ll play a key role in navigating complex legal and regulatory issues, balancing risk with business objectives, and helping the company scale with confidence.
In this role you will:
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and R&D teams across the entire product lifecycle to identify and address legal risks in areas including AI, IP, privacy, security, open source, and marketing.
- Support commercialization efforts by advising Go-To-Market and Business Operations teams on product positioning, licensing models, and regulatory issues.
- Monitor and interpret evolving laws related to AI, privacy, IP, and competition to ensure proactive compliance and business alignment.
- Draft and maintain scalable processes, playbooks, and guidance to support consistent legal input across teams.
- Assist in creation and management of privacy, security and AI governance frameworks and audits.
- Operate independently and provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice that aligns with Synthesia’s risk appetite and goals.
You’re a great fit for the role if you have:
- Law degree and qualified to practice in-house in a relevant jurisdiction.
- 7+ years of post-qualification experience, including 5+ advising on SaaS product legal issues; prior exposure to generative AI preferred.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and related legal issues (e.g., IP, privacy, algorithmic accountability).
- Strong understanding of GDPR and other major privacy frameworks, experience with biometric data processing or automated decision-making is a plus.
- Comfortable working with technical teams and translating legal risk into actionable guidance.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to draft clear, concise messages for cross-functional audiences.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
- AI
- IP
- privacy
- security
- GDPR
- SaaS
- legal
- generative AI
- biometric data processing
- automated decision-making
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