Instacart is seeking an experienced and creative Product Counsel to provide legal support across its enterprise business, platform verticals, and connected stores business, aiming to drive strategic growth initiatives and ensure legal compliance for new and existing features and services.
Requirements
- Familiarity with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces (such as copyright, privacy, employment, SaaS, advertising, and payments).
- 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.
- Experience working with hardware offerings and/or platform businesses and balancing competing interests in a multi-sided marketplace.
- Ability to distill complex issues into concise legal requirements.
- Understand and stay up to date on applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards related to marketplaces and hardware offerings.
- Familiarity with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal support across enterprise business (Storefront Pro and retailer-facing offerings), Platform Verticals (Health, Business, Alcohol) and Connected Stores business (Caper).
- Advise on legal requirements and shape the direction of Instacart's offerings.
- Identify when initiatives require specialized legal review.
- Drive value by finding connections across initiatives and identifying ways to make legal and product teams more efficient through better processes and by leveraging AI tools.
- Review product plans, designs, merchandising, and integration with partners.
- Advise on hardware products like the Caper cart.
- Work on issues ranging from consumer protection, payments, product safety, privacy, merchandising, and commercial compliance.
Other
- 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).
- The ability to provide clear, concise legal advice, work effectively cross-functionally to drive to results.
- A team player.
- Preferably California state bar.
