Product Counsel

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun social and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion encouraging kids and adults to move more play more and have fun together. Nex Playground the companys award-winning active play system is purpose-built to get families moving year-round with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE COPPA compliant and built to support healthy active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50 experiences including motion and dance games fitness and educational experiences and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro Sesame Workshop and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies TIMEs Best Inventions and Parents Best Entertainment System for Families and has earned Red Dot IDEA and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have FunandIs Motion Gaming Back as they offer a deeper look into our culture values and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

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Location: Remote
Annual salary: USDper year
Final base salary within this range will be determined based on job-related factors including the candidates experience skills qualifications and geographic location.

Type: Full-time
Reports to: General Counsel

About the Role

Were looking for a seasoned product counsel to be Nexs primary legal partner to Product Engineering Trust & Safety Design and Marketing - advising across the full product lifecycle with particular depth in privacy and childrens privacy compliance. You will own Nexs privacy program day-to-day including COPPA compliance camera- and AI-driven data collection practices and consent and disclosure flows while also advising on consumer protection IP emerging AI regulation and the broader mix of legal issues that come up as we ship new hardware features games and Play Pass content.

This is a senior largely independent role for someone who wants to build a product legal function from scratch rather than plug into an existing one - youll be writing our first privacy program our first product-review processes and our first AI governance approach with real opportunity to grow this into a larger function as Nex scales.

What Youll Do

Privacy & Child Safety Program Ownership

• Own Nexs privacy program end-to-end: COPPA compliance data mapping for our camera- and AI-driven product vendor data processing agreements and consent/disclosure flows for a product used heavily by children.
• Draft review and maintain Nexs privacy policy terms of service and parental consent flows including for new markets as we expand internationally (e.g. GDPR and other regional childrens/data protection frameworks).
• Advise Product Engineering Trust & Safety and Design on privacy-by-design principles and age-appropriate product experiences from ideation through launch.
• Monitor the evolving childrens privacy and online safety regulatory landscape (COPPA state age-appropriate design laws GDPR-K and similar frameworks) and translate developments into actionable product guidance.
• Serve as the point of contact for privacy incidents regulatory inquiries and data subject/parental requests escalating appropriately to the GC and outside counsel.
• Serve as the escalation point for Legal Operations and Commercial Counsel on any privacy or COPPA questions that surface in vendor commercial or operational contexts - they are trained to flag these to you rather than advise on them directly.

Product Counseling Across the Lifecycle

• Be a trusted embedded advisor to Product Engineering Trust & Safety Design and Marketing - reviewing new features hardware capabilities and AI/motion-detection functionality for legal risk from concept through launch.
• Advise on consumer protection issues relevant to Play Pass and other subscription or in-product offerings including disclosures auto-renewal compliance and promotions or sweepstakes tied to product launches or marketing campaigns.
• Review product user experiences in-app disclosures and marketing/advertising materials to mitigate legal risk while supporting the teams goals.
• Provide practical guidance on emerging AI regulation as it applies to Nexs computer vision and motion-detection technology including responsible AI development and deployment considerations.
• Flag physical product safety and liability considerations that arise from hardware feature design (e.g. camera/sensor placement physical play mechanics choking/impact hazards for young users) to the GC and outside counsel during feature review.
• Support IP strategy for product innovation: facilitate invention harvesting and patent-strategy conversations with Engineering and advise on trademark use in-product in partnership with Legal Operations on portfolio docketing.

Building the Function

• Build the playbooks guides and internal training that let Product Engineering and Marketing self-serve on lower-risk questions and escalate the right issues early.
• Design a scalable legal review process for product launches that keeps pace with Nexs release cadence without becoming a bottleneck.
• Partner with Legal Operations on intake triage and template design for product-related legal requests and with Commercial Counsel to keep licensing/partnership agreements aligned with product privacy and IP commitments.
• Manage outside counsel on specialized privacy AI regulatory product-safety or IP matters as needed with Legal Operations administering the underlying vendor relationship and spend.
• As Nex scales help define whether and how this function grows - this role has a credible path to leading a larger product legal team.

What Youll Bring

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing (California or another U.S. state as applicable).
• 4-7 years of relevant legal experience combining law firm and in-house product counseling at a technology or consumer products company.
• Deep hands-on experience with childrens privacy compliance (COPPA age-appropriate design frameworks GDPR-K or similar) - this is the technical core of the role.
• Experience advising product engineering and design teams throughout the full product development lifecycle not just at launch review.
• Working knowledge of consumer protection law as applied to subscriptions promotions and marketing claims.
• Comfort advising on emerging AI/computer vision regulatory questions even without a technical background and genuine interest in the underlying technology.
• A builders mindset: comfortable creating playbooks review processes and governance frameworks from scratch rather than operating an existing one.
• Excellent judgment translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear actionable guidance for non-legal audiences under real deadlines.
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills and a low-ego collaborative approach.

Nice to Have

• Privacy certification (CIPP/US CIPP/E or similar) or willingness to obtain one.
• Experience in consumer hardware consumer electronics gaming or toy/kids products.
• Experience supporting sweepstakes contests or promotions tied to consumer products or subscriptions.
• Exposure to patent or trademark strategy in a product/engineering context.
• Experience advising on international product launches and multi-jurisdictional compliance.

What Success Looks Like

• Product Engineering Trust & Safety Design and Marketing have a legal partner they trust to move fast on new features and launches with confidence.
• Nex has a documented defensible privacy and childrens data protection program that scales as the company grows and enters new markets.
• Privacy consumer protection and AI regulatory issues are surfaced and resolved at the design stage not after the fact.
• Playbooks templates and review processes let the product organization self-serve on routine questions freeing this role to focus on the highest-impact issues.
• Nex is positioned to expand this function as the business grows with this person as the natural lead.

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located inSan Jose California USAandHongKong. Learn more about us at encourage applications even if you dont meet more than 50% of the requirements we believe that experience comes in many forms!

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