About Mesh
At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset. Today, trillions of dollars in tokenized assets exist but remain largely unusable for everyday commerce. Mesh is bridging this gap by making crypto payments reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world. Backed by leading investors like SBI, Money Forward, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and PayPal Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!
Overview
We are hiring a Senior Product & Privacy Counsel to be the legal partner to our product, engineering, and design teams. You will sit close to the product and advise from ideation through launch on the full range of issues our products raise: privacy, intellectual property, financial regulation, consumer protection, and more. This is a hands-on, in-house role for someone who gives practical, risk-based advice at startup speed and turns complex regulatory requirements into product that ships.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the primary legal advisor to product, engineering, and design, embedded from concept through launch and iteration.
- Advise on privacy and data protection by design, including GLBA and the Safeguards Rule, US state privacy laws, and GDPR for our EU operations; help shape data flows, consent, minimization, and retention.
- Own product intellectual property matters: open-source software license review and compliance (attribution, copyleft, and distribution obligations), and third-party IP clearance for features and integrations.
- Manage trademark strategy and the trademark portfolio, including brand and product-name clearance and filings, and handle other product-related IP issues as they arise.
- Support patent strategy: invention harvesting and disclosures, coordinating filings and prosecution with outside counsel, building and maintaining the patent portfolio, and freedom-to-operate assessments.
- Advise on financial regulation as it applies to features: US money transmission and state licensing considerations, BSA/AML and sanctions touchpoints, and crypto/digital-asset and payments frameworks across the regions we operate in.
- Advise on consumer protection, including UDAP/UDAAP, required disclosures, fee and marketing practices, and user-facing terms.
- Draft and negotiate product-related terms: user agreements, product disclosures, and terms tied to partner and vendor integrations.
- Partner with Compliance, Information Security, Marketing, and Regulatory to align product decisions with our licensing posture and risk appetite.
- Build scalable processes for product legal review, risk assessments, and clear sign-off paths that keep pace with a fast roadmap.
- Track regulatory and enforcement developments that affect the product and translate them into concrete, actionable guidance.
Who You Are
- JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house time advising product teams.
- Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or another regulated technology environment.
- Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, and of intellectual property as it applies to software products: open-source licensing, trademarks, patents, filings and prosecution, and IP clearance.
- Working knowledge of US financial regulation (money transmission, BSA/AML, consumer protection), and ideally crypto or digital-asset regulation.
- A practical, risk-based style: you give clear answers, weigh trade-offs, and are comfortable with ambiguity and speed.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and the judgment to know what to decide and when to escalate.
Nice to Have
- Privacy certification (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E)
- Exposure to EU, UK, LATAM, or APAC regulatory regimes
- Experience helping scale a legal function in a high-growth company.
The compensation range provided may span multiple career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on factors including a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. For candidates outside of New York or San Francisco, compensation will be adjusted to reflect the applicable market and location-based pay band. The base salary range listed excludes commission (if applicable), equity, and benefits. The pay range represents the minimum and maximum target for new-hire compensation. Actual compensation may vary and may be higher or lower depending on individual circumstances.
Why You’ll Love It Here
At Mesh, you're not stepping into a typical role—you're joining a rocket ship in mid-liftoff. You'll tackle complex, meaningful problems that actually move an industry forward, working alongside a sharp, motivated team that moves quickly, collaborates deeply, and expects everyone to operate with ownership. This is the kind of place where you'll see your work ship fast, make real impact, and be able to point to something and say, "I built that." You'll grow fast, level up your skills, and get a front-row seat to how a high-growth company scales from the inside, with competitive comp, solid benefits, and room to stretch your craft all coming standard. If you're energized by building, learning, and shaping something big—this is where you'll want to be.
In-Office Expectations
Employees based in our San Francisco, New York, and Bangalore hubs are expected to work from the office at least 40% of the time (approximately two days per week). This expectation may vary slightly depending on role, team, and business needs. Certain roles that require closer cross-functional collaboration or operational support may have additional in-office requirements, which will be discussed during the interview process. Our hybrid approach is designed to balance meaningful in-person collaboration, team building, and real-time decision-making with the flexibility to work remotely. We believe this structure supports strong execution while preserving autonomy and focus time.
How We Care For Our Team
We believe great work happens when people feel valued and supported. That starts with competitive salary and equity that grows as you and the company grow, plus comprehensive health coverage for you and your family. We offer unlimited PTO—and we mean it. Take the time you need to recharge and show up at your best.
We're invested in your growth with a dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications. Work from wherever you're most productive with our remote-friendly approach, and count on having the top-tier tools and equipment you need to do exceptional work.
Mesh Pay is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, lawful alien status, national origin, age, marital status, and non-job related physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Mesh (meshconnect.com) San Jose, California, USA Office
San Jose, CA, United States
Mesh (meshconnect.com) San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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