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Associate General Counsel, Product & Commercial

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mrbeastyoutube logoMrbeastyoutube · San Mateo, CA
Full-timeOn-site1d ago
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Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations. Role Overview Beast Industries is building products and services for consumers and creators around community participation, memberships, interactive experiences, creator tools, and commercial partnerships. As the company expands globally, the legal team plays a critical role in enabling growth while managing regulatory, consumer, privacy, and commercial risk. The Associate General Counsel, Product & Commercial serves as a primary legal partner to the teams responsible for the Beast Membership program and Global Creator Platform. This role provides legal guidance across product development, partnerships, subscriptions, promotions, creator ecosystems, live experiences, and global expansion. This role owns legal support for consumer-facing products, creator platform initiatives, and commercial partnerships. The position partners closely with Product, Engineering, Content, Marketing, Partnerships, and Finance to help launch and scale new offerings while maintaining appropriate legal and regulatory safeguards. The role is responsible for advising on product features, subscription models, promotions, privacy and online safety requirements, commercial agreements, creator ecosystem expansion, and global growth initiatives. It also serves as a key advisor on high-sensitivity areas including privacy compliance, winner verification processes, and global regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as lead legal in-house counsel for the Beast Membership program, the Creator Global Platform and strategic partnerships.
  • Advise on new applications, products, features, and business models to identify and mitigate legal risks across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Counsel stakeholders on consumer protection, privacy, data protection, competition, intellectual property, and emerging regulatory frameworks.
  • Structure and advise on subscription offerings, including free trials, referral programs, membership benefits, and related consumer disclosures.
  • Provide legal support for challenges, prize structures, and production-related legal considerations.
  • Draft and oversee sweepstakes, contest, and promotion frameworks, including official rules, eligibility requirements, and prize fulfillment considerations.
  • Lead legal workstreams related to winner verification, age verification, and know-your-customer requirements for high-value prizes.
  • Advise on data privacy including COPPA-related requirements and compliant product experiences.
  • Support rewards and commerce ecosystems.
  • Advise on content licensing, creator programming, and content distribution strategies.
  • Support global product expansion through localized terms, pricing models, and jurisdiction-specific legal requirements.
  • Draft, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial agreements, including technology, gaming, sponsorship, event, marketing, agency, and development agreements.
  • Support live activations, events, venue relationships, and large-scale productions.
  • Manage outside counsel on specialized regulatory, privacy and compliance matters.
  • Provide practical legal guidance that enables business teams to meet launch timelines while managing legal risk.

Requirements

  • J.D. from an accredited law school.
  • Active membership in good standing with the California State Bar, or eligibility to register as in-house counsel under California Rule of Court 9.46.
  • Minimum of 8-10 years of post-law school relevant legal experience. Significant experience as in-house counsel with consumer internet applications is a plus
  • Experience advising on technology, consumer products, privacy, or related legal matters.
  • Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including partnerships, licensing, sponsorship, technology, and services agreements.
  • Working knowledge of consumer protection and promotions law, including sweepstakes, contests, subscriptions, and auto-renewal requirements.
  • Expertise in privacy and children's privacy frameworks, including COPPA, CCPA/CPRA, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code, GDPR, or similar regulations.
  • Experience developing or support

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