Enterprise Product Counsel

Summary

Join Instacart as a Product Counsel and provide legal support across enterprise business, platform verticals, and Connected Stores. Work with product, business, engineering, marketing, and design teams to advise on legal requirements and shape Instacart’s offerings. Drive value by finding connections across initiatives and improving efficiency through better processes and AI tools. Build strong cross-functional relationships by understanding Instacart’s business objectives and identifying legal risks. Review product plans, designs, and integrations with partners. Balance competing priorities across customers, retailers, shoppers, and advertisers. Advise on hardware products and address issues ranging from consumer protection to commercial compliance. This role requires navigating novel challenges, collaborating cross-functionally, and solving complex problems with practical solutions.

Requirements

• A J.D. from a top-tier law school and membership with at least one state bar
• A minimum of 5 years of related experience working at a leading law firm or in-house legal department (in-house experience, especially at a tech company or retailer, a plus)
• Familiarity with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces (such as copyright, privacy, employment, SaaS, advertising, and payments)
• The ability to provide clear, concise legal advice, work effectively cross-functionally to drive to results
• Comfort working with AI tools to drive efficiency and streamline processes
• Experience in corporate law, pharmaceutical law, alcohol law, and/or privacy and data security laws (including GDPR and US-EU Privacy Shield) a plus
• A team player

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Business Development and Operations partners at every level of the business to provide counseling, education, and guidance on legal compliance for new and existing features and services for consumers
• Work cross-functionally within the legal team, including litigation, privacy, compliance, intellectual property, and employment
• Provide sound, practical advice and guidance on legal and business-related issues
• Work on cross border counseling
• Identify opportunities to streamline legal advice and build efficient and scalable processes leveraging AI to provide high quality support to a broad range of clients
• Understand and stay up to date on applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards related to marketplaces and hardware offerings with the ability to distill complex issues into concise legal requirements
• Think ahead, see around corners, and help to prepare for and minimize risks that may arise in the future

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferably California state bar
• Experience working with hardware offerings and/or platform businesses and balancing competing interests in a multi-sided marketplace

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants