Senior Product & Privacy Counsel

As Senior Product & Privacy Counsel at Mesh, you serve as the primary legal advisor to our product, engineering, and design teams. You sit close to the product and advise from ideation through launch on the full range of issues our products raise: privacy, intellectual property, financial regulation, consumer protection, and more. This is a hands-on, in-house role for someone who gives practical, risk-based advice at startup speed and turns complex regulatory requirements into product that ships.

What you'll do

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design, embedded from concept through launch and iteration.
• Advise on privacy and data protection by design, including GLBA and the Safeguards Rule, US state privacy laws, and GDPR for EU operations; help shape data flows, consent, minimization, and retention.
• Own product intellectual property matters: open-source software license review and compliance (attribution, copyleft, and distribution obligations), and third-party IP clearance for features and integrations.
• Manage trademark strategy and the trademark portfolio, including brand and product-name clearance and filings, and handle other product-related IP issues as they arise.
• Support patent strategy: invention harvesting and disclosures, coordinating filings and prosecution with outside counsel, building and maintaining the patent portfolio, and freedom-to-operate assessments.
• Advise on financial regulation as it applies to features: US money transmission and state licensing considerations, BSA/AML and sanctions touchpoints, and crypto/digital-asset and payments frameworks across the regions you operate in.
• Advise on consumer protection, including UDAP/UDAAP, required disclosures, fee and marketing practices, and user-facing terms.
• Draft and negotiate product-related terms: user agreements, product disclosures, and terms tied to partner and vendor integrations.
• Partner with Compliance, Information Security, Marketing, and Regulatory to align product decisions with the company's licensing posture and risk appetite.
• Build scalable processes for product legal review, risk assessments, and clear sign-off paths that keep pace with a fast roadmap.
• Track regulatory and enforcement developments that affect the product and translate them into concrete, actionable guidance.

What you bring

• A JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
• 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams.
• Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment.
• Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, and of intellectual property as it applies to software products: open-source licensing, trademarks, patents, filings and prosecution, and IP clearance.
• Working knowledge of US financial regulation (money transmission, BSA/AML, consumer protection), and ideally crypto or digital-asset regulation.
• A practical, risk-based style: you give clear answers, weigh trade-offs, and are comfortable with ambiguity and speed.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and the judgment to know what to decide and when to escalate.

Nice to have

• Privacy certification such as CIPP/US or CIPP/E.
• Exposure to EU, UK, LATAM, or APAC regulatory regimes.
• Experience helping scale a legal function in a high-growth company.

What we offer

• Base salary of $250,000 to $280,000 USD, excluding commission, equity, and benefits.
• Competitive equity that grows as you and the company grow.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications.
• Remote-friendly work with access to top-tier tools and equipment.
• In-office expectations: employees based in San Francisco, New York, and Bangalore are expected to work from the office at least 40% of the time (approximately two days per week), with some variation by role and team.

About Mesh

Mesh enables consumers to pay and be paid with any asset, bridging the gap between tokenized assets and everyday commerce. The company combines a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity globally, backed by leading investors including PayPal Ventures, Paradigm, and Galaxy Ventures.