Deputy General Counsel, Product

Do you believe that creators should have the ability to get paid for the value they give to their fans?

We do, which is why we're building Patreon, a platform that powers membership services for creators with established followings. Patreon strives to provide creators with insight, education, and tools that make it possible to retain creative control while running their creative business, so creators can focus on creating and energizing their fanbases.

Our user base has doubled in the last year alone, and we have paid over $2 billion directly to creators on our platform. In order to support this level of growth, Patreon is looking for a Deputy General Counsel, Product to build out our Product legal team.

The Patreon Legal team's mission is to build the best legal team anyone has worked with by helping other teams achieve their goals while ensuring Patreon's long-term independence and sustainability. Our work culture is highly autonomous and impactful. We believe that hiring smart, ambitious and empathetic people and giving them strong ownership of their work leads to the best results.

What you will do:

• Build the Product legal team at Patreon.
• Work closely with our Engineering, Product and Design teams to ensure the legal team facilitates the work of those teams to build good product quickly
• Oversee all aspects of Product legal strategy and guide us through complicated regulatory and business decisions.
• Ensure we build products in compliance with our privacy requirements under GDPR, CCPA and other relevant privacy laws.
• Ensure we build products in compliance with various payments related laws.

Skills and experience you possess:

• 12+ years of experience in product counseling roles at a firm or in-house, with in-house experience at leading technology companies highly valued.
• Experience leading a team of attorneys responsible for product counseling.
• Experience with payments or privacy issues is helpful.
• Track record of working closely with product teams at product orientated companies and shipping high impact products.
• Comfortable with defining a go-forward regulatory position for a two-sided marketplace with numerous creative verticals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to effectively communicate across departments and at all levels.
• Strong work ethic and ability to be productive and successful in a fast-paced work environment.
• Passion for and interest in Patreon and our mission.

Who You'll Work With:
At Patreon, you'll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.
Our Core Behaviors:

• Put Creators First. Patreon is nothing without our creators. 
• Achieve Ambitious Outcomes. Set, measure, and accomplish goals that deliver massive value to our creators and patrons. 
• Cultivate Inclusion. We want an environment that retains and engages the diverse teams we build.
• Bias Towards Action. When in doubt, we take the next best step, then course correct when needed. We go out of our way to fix problems when we see them. We take ownership seriously.
• Be Candid and Kind. Be extremely caring and extremely direct in all you do at Patreon, especially when it comes to giving positive and constructive feedback. 
• Be Curious. You don’t know it all, and that’s the fun part. Everything gets better when you’re curious. Things get more interesting, more clear, and more approachable. When you bring curiosity into the workplace, you’re growing yourself, your teammates, and Patreon as a whole.

Want to Learn More About Patreon?

• Check out TechCrunch’s article about our focus on membership 
• Listen to our CEO Jack and Co-Founder Sam chat with Guy Raz on NPR’s How I Built This
• Check to see if you know a Patreon teammate on LinkedIn