Socure Product Counsel at Socure partners with AI and computer vision teams to develop digital identity and fraud prevention products. Advises on legal risks, compliance, and commercial terms throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Provide legal guidance to product, data science, engineering, and sales/marketing teams on the development of our document verification and digital intelligence products. You’ll touch a wide range of laws, including privacy (especially biometrics), consumer protection, responsible AI, age assurance, and laws that regulate identity cards, numbers and authoritative data sources. You’ll also advise on model risk, machine learning bias, fair lending, and accessibility. You’ll get familiar with official privacy and identity standards relevant to government procurement and global markets.
Take a risk-based and business enabling approach. You will closely track our company and product strategies in order to manage and minimize legal risks. Maintain documentation so your guidance is easy to implement.
Advise on the commercial terms (customer and vendor agreements) that affect our products.
Draft terms of use, product and privacy policies, disclosures, customer documentation, and implement related processes.
Review external communications about our products, including to customers, the market, regulators, and the press.
Work with a dynamic and lean team of product and regulatory legal experts who are always in the middle of stimulating and novel issues. You also will be the product expert for the Legal and our Government Affairs teams, as needed to support their work in contracting, corporate and regulatory matters.
Partner with Data Acquisition & Licensing and Commercial Legal to ensure that data sources and customer contract terms for DocV and Digital Intelligence align with Socure's rights and restrictions, and that novel requirements are built into contract templates and negotiation playbooks.
Participate in Socure's privacy and data governance programs, including privacy-by-design reviews, data protection impact assessments, regulatory monitoring, and consumer-facing issues.
Support customer and prospect engagement as a subject-matter expert, including regulator, bank-partner, and customer due diligence, security and compliance questionnaires, and regulated-industry go-to-market efforts.
Handle government and regulator discussions and disclosures on compliance readiness, in coordination with Government Affairs and external counsel.
Use AI tools as part of your everyday legal workflow, including AI-assisted drafting, research, and review. Surface and help build ideas for automating repeatable legal processes.
Design training and sales-enablement resources on key legal issues for general and targeted audiences.
