Legal Counsel - App Store

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Cupertino, CA · Corporate Functions

Legal Counsel for Apple's App Store, focusing on regulatory compliance, fraud prevention, transactional matters, and product/policy development. Requires legal experience in technology, online platforms, and new technologies, with a JD and bar admission.

What you'd actually do

  1. supporting and advising App Store stakeholders on a wide variety of matters, including regulatory compliance, fraud prevention, transactional matters, disputes, and product and policy development.
  2. interpreting new and existing international regulations and drafting responses to government regulators is a plus.
  3. advising stakeholders across the company on policy interpretation and implementation, risk allocation/mitigation, business implications, and collaborate with the broader legal team supporting Apple products and services around the world.

Skills

Required

  • 4-5 years relevant legal experience at a technology company, a leading law firm, or a government agency.
  • Experience advising clients on issues related to the app economy, online platforms, internet products/services, digital distribution, e-commerce, new technologies, or novel/complex business issues.
  • JD or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar.

Nice to have

  • Experience working on complex issues involving regulatory compliance, fraud, trust and safety, consumer protection, software, intellectual property, gaming, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, finance, and customer payment systems is desirable.
  • Excellent listening, communication, analytical, drafting and organizational skills.
  • Loves digging into complex details, handling a variety of matters, and providing practical legal solutions in a fast-paced environment.
  • Enjoys building strong client relationships and working collaboratively with teams from various disciplines, such as engineering, design, business, and marketing, government affairs, and public relations.
  • Comfortable with healthy debate.
  • Best suited for a self-starter who is curious, likes learning, and thrives in a dynamic, team environment.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory compliance
  • fraud prevention
  • product and policy development
  • regulatory compliance
  • government inquiries
  • artificial intelligence