Senior Legal Counsel – Home and Wearables Product Counsel

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Do you love tackling big challenges without precedent? Do you possess deep legal knowledge and a passion for innovation? As part of our team, you’ll provide legal support for our products and businesses across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your expertise to rare and often unexplored aspects of the law.

As a member of the Product & Regulatory Legal Group, you will work with Apple’s engineering and marketing teams to help create and introduce Apple products to the world. You will play a crucial role in providing the legal support needed for Apple to continue building cutting-edge technologies.

About the role

You will join a team of attorneys in the Product & Regulatory Legal Group who support the hardware and software engineering, marketing, and business teams with a focus on Apple’s home and wearables products. You will partner directly with product and engineering teams, advising on a wide variety of matters related to novel artificial intelligence and machine learning features and other technologies through development and launch.

You’ll support technology and content licensing, and advise on product, commercial, IP, and regulatory matters. You will formulate legal and regulatory strategies and provide creative solutions to mitigate risks presented by the development of innovative products.

Apple management will look to you to advise on risk mitigation, business strategies and policies, particularly as they relate to the unique challenges and opportunities presented by technologies incorporated into wearable devices and shared home products.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including product counseling for consumer devices
• JD or equivalent and admission to at least one state bar

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with product counseling, consumer law, and product regulatory issues, and a strong interest in new technologies in consumer products
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex legal issues and build relationships with engineering, executive management, teammates, and cross-functional partners
• Strong analytical skills and business sense with the ability to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways, balancing legal risk and product goals
• Self-starter who is curious, takes ownership, and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative environment