International Product Counsel

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact. We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. 💻 Role As Whatnot deepens its European footprint and expands into new global markets, we need a senior legal partner who sits at the intersection of product law, privacy, and international regulation. This is a high-impact role embedded in a fast-moving product environment. You will serve as the dedicated legal resource for Whatnot’s international product roadmap — coordinating with regional and subject matter expert legal teams to consolidate and globalise legal feedback, ensuring products and features are built compliantly from day one. As Whatnot scales globally, you will build the product legal infrastructure that makes that growth possible without creating bottlenecks. 🎯 Global Product Counselling Provide day-to-day product legal support for Whatnot’s international product roadmap, advising product and engineering teams from concept through post-launch on legal risk across the UK, EU, and new markets. Lead global review of new products, product features, and product-related matters to ensure compliance with applicable digital, consumer protection, and platform regulation — before features ship. Advise on the DSA, UK Online Safety Act, GDPR/UK GDPR, e-commerce rules, consumer protection frameworks, platform liability regimes, and emerging AI-related legal obligations. Coordinate with regional counsel and subject matter expert legal teams to consolidate and globalise legal feedback to product teams, ensuring a coherent global legal posture across markets. Support the development of Whatnot’s international terms of service, community policies, and seller frameworks. Build scalable legal playbooks, review processes, and self-serve tools that let the product team move fast with confidence. 🔒 Privacy & Data Protection Serve as product privacy counsel for Whatnot’s international markets, advising on privacy-by-design principles and data protection obligations throughout the product development lifecycle. Review new products and features for GDPR, UK GDPR, and ePrivacy compliance, including legal basis analysis, transparency obligations, data subject rights, and DPIAs. Monitor and respond to regulatory developments in data protection law across the EU, UK, and key growth markets, briefing cross-functional stakeholders on practical impact. Partner closely with Whatnot’s privacy counsel to ensure a coordinated approach to international privacy compliance across product initiatives. Draft and maintain internal and external privacy policies, notices, and standards relevant to Whatnot’s international product and seller ecosystem. 🌍 Regulatory Monitoring & Market Expansion Actively monitor global regulatory developments — including the EU AI Act, DSA, DMA, and emerging frameworks in key growth markets — and advise the business on practical implications for the product roadmap. Serve as the primary legal resource for international market entry workstreams, coordinating with local counsel where required and