Senior Counsel (Product & AI)

Join Owner, a fast-growing startup in the restaurant technology space. As the Senior Counsel (Product & AI), you will be the embedded legal partner for our Product and Engineering organizations, advising on new features, AI-powered tools, pricing models, and payments integrations. You will also own the legal review of AI-related products and features, advise on regulatory compliance for payments and fintech-adjacent products, and build and maintain the privacy program elements most relevant to product. This is a unique opportunity to have significant ownership over how we build compliant, well-designed products from day one.

• Serve as embedded legal counsel to Product, Engineering, and Payments team advising on new features, AI-powered tools, pricing models, and payments integrations from concept through launch.
• Own legal review of AI-related products and features, including training data sourcing, model risk, algorithmic decision-making, and required disclosures.
• Advise on regulatory compliance for payments and fintech-adjacent products, including embedded payments, money movement, card network rules, and PCI-DSS considerations.

• 6+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house product counsel experience at a technology company
• Experience with fintech or payments products - embedded payments, money movement, card issuing, or similar
• Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance for product and engineering teams
• Direct experience advising on AI/ML products, with familiarity with the emerging AI regulatory landscape
• Substantive privacy law experience (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and state comprehensive privacy laws)
• Experience in restaurant technology, hospitality tech, or vertical SaaS strongly preferred
• Strong builder mentality, with experience creating processes, playbooks, and standards rather than just applying existing ones
• Comfort working independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with incomplete information
• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction