Hospitable.com
Senior Litigation Counsel - CA
Hospitable.com - San Francisco
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Overview
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Overview
Compensation : $304,000–$342,000 base + equity + benefits
Reports To : VP & Deputy General Counsel, Litigation and Regulatory Compliance
You’ll represent Discord across a broad litigation spectrum, from proactive risk mitigation to full-on litigation strategy. This is a high-impact legal leadership role in a dynamic and evolving space — tech, gaming, privacy, and platform safety.
- Represent Discord in Legal Disputes
- Handle pre-litigation, litigation, and regulatory investigation matters involving the company.
- Oversee & Collaborate with Outside Counsel
- Manage outside legal teams for complex and business-critical litigation.
- Build Scalable Legal Infrastructure
- Develop litigation processes, including e-discovery systems and risk management tools.
- Monitor legal trends and help the company preempt issues before they arise.
- Advise Internal Stakeholders
- Work closely with teams across product, policy, trust & safety, and engineering to ensure legal awareness and mitigation strategies are in place.
Required Qualifications
- JD from an accredited law school
- Bar admission in a relevant U.S. jurisdiction
- 10+ years of combined experience (top law firm + in-house legal preferred, ideally tech)
- Deep experience in:
- Platform safety , minor safety , and content regulation
- Experience supervising litigation from intake to resolution
- Strong writer and communicator
- Strategic, business-minded legal thinker with a hands-on approach
- Comfortable managing projects in high-pressure, ambiguous environments
- High EQ, humility, and collaborative mindset
- In-house legal experience at a consumer tech platform
- Worked on regulatory investigations (FTC, AGs, international regulators)
- Experience with litigation in Brazil, Israel, UK, or the EU
- Strong eDiscovery expertise , especially for messaging platforms (voice, video, text)
- Experience in:
- Intellectual property litigation (trademark, copyright, patents)
- Commercial contract disputes and arbitration
Salary & Contract Terms
- Base Salary : $304,000 – $342,000 (contractual)
- Additional : Equity + benefits (though details on the contract's duration are not specified)
Why This Role Matters at Discord
Discord is a massive social and communication platform with over 200 million monthly users — where online safety, content regulation, and privacy intersect in complex and evolving ways. This role is key to:
- Protecting Discord’s legal position in fast-moving and high-risk domains
- Defining policy responses and litigation strategy
- Scaling the company’s legal defense posture as it grows globally and expands its monetization strategy