Product Counsel

Join Toast, a technology company dedicated to helping restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. As a Product Counsel, you will work closely with various teams across the business, providing legal advice and guidance throughout the product development lifecycle. This role requires technical fluency and a deep understanding of regulatory compliance, consumer protection, intellectual property, and privacy.

• Advising stakeholders across product, engineering, data, and marketing teams throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial stages to launch.
• Providing practical advice to business stakeholders on a broad range of issues including regulatory compliance, consumer protection, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, marketing, and privacy.
• Translating legal requirements into technical requirements, writing guidance engineers can build against, and reviewing design documents, data models, and architecture proposals.

• The best candidate for this role finds the technical detail interesting rather than an obstacle
• Toast’s product portfolio evolves quickly, and so does this role. We are looking for someone agile who can shift priorities with the business
• 5+ years of legal experience in areas covering regulatory compliance, privacy, intellectual property, and consumer protection
• Experience with data-use and data-rights questions: what a company may do with the data it holds, and how aggregation, de-identification, and contractual commitments change the answer
• A solution-oriented, customer service, and growth mindset
• Experience working with fast-paced technology or software companies
• Technical fluency. You are comfortable reading architecture and design documentation, reasoning about data flows, schemas, APIs, and model behavior, and engaging engineers and data scientists as a peer. A computer science degree is not required; the ability to do the work is
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a succinct and impactful manner
• The ability to integrate into cross-functional teams with a cooperative and participatory approach
• In-house legal department experience advising product, engineering, and marketing teams on issues related to the development of new products, product enhancements, and feature requests
• A J.D. from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school, and membership in good standing in at least one state bar
• Experience with AI or machine learning issues — training data rights, model governance, or emerging AI regulation — and the judgment to advise on novel questions without settled precedent