Deputy General Counsel

About the Position

Pearl is AI for professional services at global scale, combining advanced AI with verified human expertise to deliver help that is accurate, accountable, and fast. Since 2003, our network has connected millions of customers with licensed professionals across 196 countries, making real expertise available anytime, anywhere.

As the Deputy General Counsel, AI at Pearl, you’ll serve as a strategic legal leader and trusted advisor helping shape the company’s continued growth while building a modern, AI-first legal function.

Responsibilities

• Help set the strategy for the Legal Department and all matters under its purview.
• Partner with senior leaders to advise on legal strategy, governance, risk management, and key business initiatives.
• Support the day-to-day operations of the Legal Department and lead a high-performing, collaborative legal team.
• Lead the adoption and implementation of AI across the Legal Department, identifying, building, and scaling practical use cases that improve legal research, drafting, knowledge management, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
• Establish responsible governance and operating practices for the Legal Department’s use of AI, including appropriate standards for accuracy, confidentiality, data protection, and human oversight.
• Serve as a trusted business partner who translates complex legal issues into practical, business-focused guidance for leaders across the organization.
• Strengthen legal operations, entity management, governance processes, and team workflows while enabling the Legal Department to scale alongside the business.
• Advise internal teams on the laws and regulations applicable to the company’s business, platform, and growth initiatives, including consumer protection matters and engagement with regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
• Oversee significant legal matters while delegating effectively and supporting the team across the broader legal workload.
• Provide practical guidance across a broad range of corporate, employment, privacy, consumer protection, and regulatory matters.
• Oversee outside counsel in connection with litigation, disputes, regulatory matters, and other high-stakes issues.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of commercial agreements and strategic transactions.
• Help train employees on legal issues, company policies, and risk-aware decision-making.
• Partner cross-functionally with leaders across the company in a highly collaborative, often asynchronous working environment.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant legal experience, including 5+ years of in-house experience.
• Deep experience advising leadership teams on strategic legal, governance, risk management, and business matters.
• Experience serving as a broad corporate generalist, with strength in corporate governance, commercial transactions, and corporate matters.
• Demonstrated technical fluency with AI and a track record of implementing AI-enabled tools or workflows within a legal function. You should be an active practitioner who can evaluate use cases, build practical solutions, drive adoption, and help others develop their AI capabilities.
• Meaningful experience with class action litigation, consumer protection matters, and regulatory inquiries or enforcement actions involving the Federal Trade Commission and/or state attorneys general.
• Experience supporting B2B and B2C platforms, e-commerce, consumer, or subscription-based businesses.
• Experience counseling companies with international operations and navigating domestic and international regulatory issues is preferred.
• Privacy, data governance, and cybersecurity experience are strong pluses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence diverse stakeholders and adapt communication style across executives, business leaders, and legal partners in a highly collaborative, largely asynchronous environment.
• A demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate a high-performing legal team.
• Strong business judgment, creativity, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
• A desire to challenge the status quo in the DIY/self-help space.
• A track record of taking the law seriously, but not yourself.

We Offer

• Opportunity to redefine how people access expert help by combining AI technology and human expertise to solve real problems at scale.
• Play a key role in building scalable legal processes, enabling business growth, and helping define what a forward-thinking legal function looks like inside a dynamic technology company.
• Directly influence how Pearl balances innovation, growth, and risk.
• Shape the Legal Department’s strategy, guide business-critical decisions, and build systems and practices that enable the organization to move faster and smarter.

About the Company

Pearl is committed to an inclusive workplace. Pearl is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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