Product Counsel, Gemini in London

The Google DeepMind Legal team provides proactive and strategic legal counseling to accelerate Google DeepMind’s best-in‑class technologies. We are looking for an adept and enthusiastic Product Counsel to work closely with the Google DeepMind product, engineering and cross‑functional teams in order to advise on a variety of legal issues relevant to their work. Specifically, you will collaborate closely with Google DeepMind product and research teams, other members of the legal team, compliance teams, and with outside counsel when needed to address global privacy and regulatory issues arising from cutting‑edge consumer product launches. We also help product teams prepare for upcoming global laws and regulations, and provide support on regulatory investigations.

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The AI Product Counsel role is focused on product, privacy, and regulatory counseling across Google Gemini. As a Product Counsel you will play a key role in counseling high‑risk product launches globally, implicating cutting‑edge AI, machine‑learning, privacy, content, copyright, and competition legal issues. You will help build solutions to successfully land product launches globally. You will work closely with key stakeholders across Global Affairs and the wider company to prepare and comply with existing and upcoming global laws.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide front‑line individual product, privacy, and regulatory counseling for various consumer product launches across Gemini apps.
• Build risk‑calibrated solutions to help products comply with existing and upcoming global laws.
• Lead and support various cross‑functional and other projects as needed, including regulatory investigations.
• Cultivate strong relationships with business and product leaders across Google DeepMind and Gemini teams to identify balanced strategy and solutions for business and legal risks.

About you:

To set you up for success as a Product Counsel at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• Knowledge and experience working with global content, privacy and security, consumer protection, copyright, and competition laws as applied to AI.
• Ability to be flexible in a fast‑paced environment with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time‑sensitive projects at once.
• Ability to apply Google’s risk principles and make risk calls with imperfect information.
• Sense of humor and love of technology.
• Proficiency with AI tools.
• Practical experience working through complex AI legal issues and understanding of AI competitive landscape.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• You have prior experience as in‑house legal counsel at a technology company.
• You have a track record of contributions to AI products or systems, and have a balanced view of the opportunities and risks of those AI products or systems.
• You’re a team player who enjoys being part of a highly supportive and collaborative team.
• You’re excited about Google DeepMind’s mission and want to help achieve it.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is between $266,000 - $374,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

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