[Hiring] Legal Advisor, Trust & Safety @Description PURE

Role Description

PURE is a global dating app committed to bringing honesty and fun into the dating world. We believe that dating is more than just swiping – it's a journey where everyone can discover something special, regardless of their preferences.

We're looking for a Legal Advisor, Trust & Safety to sit at the intersection of platform regulation, privacy law, and online safety compliance. You will advise PURE’s Trust & Safety and Product teams on the legal and regulatory obligations that shape how we build and operate safety features for a sex-positive, adults-only dating app.

What will you do?

• Navigate Age Assurance & Verification Law: Monitor and interpret the fast-moving global landscape, translating strict deadlines into concrete product and operational requirements.
• Manage Biometric & Privacy Compliance: Oversee privacy compliance as it applies to identity and photo verification, ensuring data minimization and compliant retention schedules for our verification vendors.
• Handle Child Safety Obligations: Oversee our CSAM detection, reporting, and preservation duties, while managing underage account incidents with absolute precision.
• Steer Platform Regulation: Own compliance for global platform laws, including the EU Digital Services Act and dating-app-specific legislation.
• Oversee Law Enforcement & Government Requests: Define the legal basis for disclosures and provide clear guidance to the moderation team on high-priority escalations.
• Govern Content Policy & Moderation Legality: Advise on ban/appeal processes and ensure the legal defensibility of our enforcement decisions.
• Drive Horizon Scanning: Proactively flag new legislation and enforcement trends across our top 20 markets, delivering practical guidance.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with 5+ years of experience in tech and platform regulation.
• Deep familiarity with GDPR and EU platform law.
• Strong working knowledge of US state-level online safety/privacy legislation and the UK OSA.
• Direct experience advising Trust & Safety or content moderation teams.
• Comfortable working with adult content and sex-positive products.
• Able to give operational, risk-calibrated, and highly actionable advice to non-lawyers.

Requirements

• Experience in a dating app, social platform, UGC service, or a law firm advising them.
• Multi-jurisdiction comfort is essential.
• Ability to draft clear user- and regulator-facing language.

Benefits

• Remote work
• Yearly performance bonus
• The chance to work on a product in its growth stage, with real influence on its direction
• Yearly education budget
• A multinational, diverse workplace