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ClassPass · 22 hours ago

Product Counsel

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$151K/yr - $202K/yr

7+ years exp

ClassPass is a company that offers thousands of fitness and wellness experiences worldwide, helping people lead active, balanced lifestyles. The Product Counsel role involves supporting ClassPass and its group companies by ensuring legal compliance throughout the product lifecycle, particularly focusing on consumer protection laws and collaborating with various teams to manage legal risks while fostering innovation.

Consumer ApplicationsFitnessHealth CareSubscription ServiceWellness

Responsibilities

Be embedded with ClassPass’s Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) teams, acting as a proactive partner throughout the product development lifecycle—from ideation to launch—to ensure legal compliance and manage risk without slowing innovation

Participate in product roadmap planning, collaborating closely with PDE stakeholders to identify upcoming features and functionality with legal implications and helping shape design decisions early

Be the lead Legal contact for ClassPass’s Product, Design, and Engineering and Security teams, attending monthly squad reviews, building relationships of trust, and providing timely, pragmatic advice on the legal implications of new product design and development

Monitor, research, and analyze regulatory developments worldwide that affect ClassPass and its customers, end users, and employees to ensure proactive compliance with key federal, state, and global regulations, including FTC Rules, guidelines, and decisions, the CCPA/GDPR and US state privacy laws, the ePrivacy Directive, laws relating to autorenewal subscriptions, algorithmic pricing, platform liability, and other relevant consumer protection issues

Assist with ClassPass’s privacy program, including maintenance of records of data processing activities, conducting data protection impact and legitimate interest assessments, and ensuring privacy-by-design is factored into product development

Partner with the Playlist Security team to continue to improve privacy, safety, and security-by-design requirements and handle privacy inquiries across the company

Draft, maintain, and update internal policies and contractual documentation with customers, consumers, and suppliers, including terms of use, privacy policies, and data protection agreements

Collaborate with sales, marketing, and operations teams to support commercial negotiations and escalations and ensure our advertising and marketing campaigns are aligned with marketing laws worldwide

Partner with all other practice areas within the Legal team as the subject matter expert in your area, including assisting the commercial legal team in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal agreements, assisting with M&A, employment, and dispute resolution activities, and, when appropriate, taking the lead on contract negotiations and other projects

Prepare and deliver privacy and product compliance training when needed

Be prepared to work within US time zones

Qualification

Consumer protection lawPrivacyData protectionRegulatory complianceLegal draftingProject managementAnalytical skillsCommunicationInterpersonal skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) and qualified to practice law

7–10 years of relevant legal experience; in-house experience a plus, ideally in the technology industry

Strong experience working directly with PDE teams advising on consumer protection in the US, UK, and Europe essential

Self-motivated: you have hustle, an ability to drive cross-functional projects, and deep experience advising clients and managing projects on deadlines with minimal supervision

Prioritization: you're adept at working smart and able to juggle many competing priorities, always focusing on the most critical

A team player: you enjoy working collaboratively both across the Legal team and with multiple teams, and you're always happy to roll up your sleeves to help out

Excellent communication skills, including the ability to finely tune your communications based on the audience

Exceptional interpersonal skills, sense of humor, highly team-oriented, and a commitment to high legal standards and professionalism required

Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to analyze legal advice and apply it to business needs in a dynamic, sometimes ambiguous environment

Benefits

Performance bonus

Stock

Benefits

Other applicable incentive compensation plans

Company

ClassPass

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ClassPass is an application that offers training for fitness, wellness, home workouts, in-studio classes, and digital classes. It is a sub-organization of Playlist.

Founded in 2011

New York, New York, USA

501-1000 employees