Product Counsel, YouTube

YouTube
Published
May 14, 2015
Location
San Bruno, CA
Category
Job Type

Description

As Product Counsel at YouTube, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.

The YouTube legal team is looking for a product counsel. Working out of YouTube’s office in San Bruno, you'll develop and implement legal approaches and policies for YouTube, helping product teams make decisions based upon your sound legal judgment. Your primary responsibility will be legal oversight of YouTube's important copyright programs, including YouTube's DMCA process and Content ID system. This includes collaborating with Google lawyers outside the U.S. on critical copyright matters, including litigation and regulatory work. You'll also be responsible for providing legal advice across other areas of law, including privacy, content regulation and consumer protection, and will also support your colleagues in legal, government relations and public relations on a range of product matters. You'll be working in a place that operates very much like a rapidly growing startup business, with a dynamic and intense environment and a minimal amount of hierarchy.

Responsibilities
-- Ensure compliance with U.S. and international laws and regulations dealing with copyright, privacy, content regulation and consumer protection.
-- Provide legal advice to teams from Engineering, Product Management, Advertising Sales, Marketing and Communications from the initial stages of product development to launch.
-- Respond promptly to a wide range of legal requests from Engineering, Product Management, Advertising Sales, Marketing, Communications and other business groups.
-- Legal oversight of YouTube's copyright programs, including YouTube's DMCA process and Content ID system.

Minimum qualifications
-- JD degree.
-- 3 years of related experience.
-- 2 years of legal experience with copyright matters.

Preferred qualifications
-- 5 years of relevant work experience in a law firm or in-house legal department.
-- Copyright litigation experience.
-- Background in media, communications, intellectual property and contract law, as well as demonstrated litigation experience.

Area
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for tackling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you tackle unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
 

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