Roblox is building the tools and platform that empower its community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life and is looking for legal counsel to support product and engineering teams in building the future of the Roblox platform.
Requirements
- Experience counseling social media platforms, communications services, or products with parental controls.
- Strong business-oriented judgment and the ability to analyze problems, propose solutions, and provide advice that is creative, practical, and legally acceptable, taking into account the needs and objectives of the business.
- The ability to manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively investigating and identifying issues.
- Experience in or exposure to counseling kids safety and/or privacy issues.
- Prior experience working with product policy or trust and safety orgs to develop internal and external policies is helpful.
- A track record of educating internal stakeholders, translating complex concepts, and advising on risk mitigation strategies.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to Roblox product, engineering, and operations teams as well as company leadership throughout the product and process development lifecycle to ensure healthy product launches.
- Ensure compliance with US and international laws and regulations including those concerning content regulation, communications, online safety, consumer protection, and advertising.
- Coordinate advice with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, marketing, trust & safety, product policy, and other internal and external legal counsel.
- Develop internal playbooks, training, and policies to raise awareness of online safety issues internally with product and engineering teams.
- Stay on top of the latest developments in a fast-changing legal landscape and develop deep expertise in Roblox's products.
- Build positive and influential relationships company-wide through trusted advising, knowledge-sharing and training.
Other
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, preferably a combination of law firm and in-house experience at a consumer-facing technology company.
- A license to practice law in a US jurisdiction.
- The desire to work on a small but growing team, and a track record of collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to overcome complex challenges.
- Superior communication abilities, with proven experience in cross-functional collaboration and consensus building.
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
