Senior Legal Counsel , Product

About Bumble

At Bumble, our mission is to create a world where healthy and equitable relationships thrive. We build platforms powered by trust, transparency, and innovation. As we continue to evolve and scale responsibly, we are looking for a collaborative, thoughtful, and forward-thinking Product Counsel to join our Legal team.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Counsel who will serve as a strategic partner to our Product, Engineering, AI/ML, Design and Trust and Safety teams, providing legal guidance throughout the entire product development lifecycle—from early beta to launch and beyond. This attorney will act as a key Legal Product advisor, helping ensure that our products are innovative, responsible, and legally sound.

This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned legal professional with deep experience in technology, data protection, online safety, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate thrives in a high-growth, values-driven environment and is energized by the challenge of building trustworthy, compliant, and impactful member experiences.

What You'll Do

• Act as the one of two primary legal advisors to product and engineering teams, providing guidance from initial design through launch and iteration.

• Advise teams on key emerging areas for our core product, with a particular focus on generative AI, online safety, content acquisition, IP/copyright, open source, and privacy issues.

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, AI/ML, Compliance, and InfoSec to deliver clear, actionable legal advice that supports innovation while managing risk, increase speed and efficiency, and advance the long-term goals of Bumble.

• Implement scalable legal processes, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that improve efficiency, reduce cycle times, and help deliver high-quality guidance to product and engineering teams with greater speed and consistency.

• Ensure products comply with data protection and privacy laws, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, online safety laws and related U.S. and international frameworks.

• Serve as a legal project manager, coordinating legal input across teams (e.g., privacy, commercial, compliance) to deliver timely, integrated feedback to product teams.

• Promote and implement privacy-by-design, safety by design, transparency, and member-first principles into new and existing products.

• Partner closely with product, policy, trust & safety, and engineering teams to support responsible product development and carry out appropriate risk assessments.

• Help with Trust and Safety escalation and transparency reports

• Create playbooks, checklists, and scalable legal tools to support agile product development and reduce repetitive requests.

• Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders and communicate complex legal concepts with clarity and confidence.
  

About You

• J.D. degree and active bar membership in good standing in the UK/EU

• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including in-house at a U.S.-based global tech company or top-tier law firm advising high-growth technology businesses.

• Proven expertise advising product teams in areas such as privacy law, platform liability, and consumer protection.

• Strong working knowledge of global privacy and data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, UK DPA).

• Strong working knowledge of online safety laws, (e.g., age verification laws, Digital Services Act and Online Safety Act).

• Demonstrated experience coordinating across multiple legal disciplines to ensure end-to-end coverage of regulatory and compliance risks.

• A product mindset with an ability to embed legal solutions into design processes, UX, and system architecture.

• Track record of influencing without authority, managing complex cross-functional projects, and supporting innovation at scale.

• Strong process orientation and an eye for efficiency—you're always thinking about how to make things clearer, faster, and easier.

• A commitment to Bumble’s mission and values, and a passion for building technologies that support healthy online experiences.

• Must be based in Austin or New York
  

Why Join Bumble?

You’ll join a Legal team that’s small but mighty, collaborative, and deeply integrated into how Bumble builds its products. We’re looking for someone who sees legal not as a roadblock but as a strategic enabler of innovation and trust. This is your opportunity to shape how legal thinking informs next-generation technology in a company that puts its members first.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

Fraudulent Candidate Detection

Our applicant tracking system analyzes signals relating to device, IP, email, and phone data associated with each application to protect applicants and our hiring process from fraudulent applications. These signals provide indicators for internal review only and do not constitute a definitive determination of identity or intent. No applicant is rejected, advanced, or otherwise affected based solely on this analysis without human review

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