Legal Director, Product Safety

Peloton Peloton · Consumer · Headquarters, NY · Legal

Legal Director, Product Safety at Peloton, responsible for setting the legal strategy for product safety, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Safety & Compliance teams, and managing the global product safety legal function. Requires deep subject matter and regulatory expertise, with prior CPSC experience strongly preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and evolve the global product safety legal function, taking ownership of all related legal and compliance matters, regularly reviewing and refining product safety policies and procedures, and establishing the long-term vision and strategy.
  2. Serve as the key legal strategist and advisor to Peloton’s C-suite on critical product safety issues, external-facing communications related to product safety, risk management, and regulatory engagement.
  3. Act as a senior strategic partner to leaders in the Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Safety & Compliance functions, overseeing internal safety governance processes and driving the integration of safety-by-design legal principles across the entire product lifecycle.
  4. Partner with business stakeholders to implement and scale sophisticated, world-class policies, procedures, and training programs to ensure global product safety compliance and readiness.
  5. Direct the legal response to post-market safety escalations, providing decisive leadership on incident investigations, corrective action plans, and potential recalls.

Skills

Required

  • J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
  • Membership in good standing of at least one state bar
  • 12+ years of progressive legal experience
  • Deep focus on consumer product safety, product liability, and regulatory compliance
  • Experience at a top-tier law firm, in-house at a global consumer products company, or a combination thereof
  • Deep experience and familiarity with the CPSC, its regulations and its processes
  • Significant experience with international product safety regimes
  • Extensive experience advising executives and boards of directors on high-stakes product safety and regulatory matters
  • Proven track record of building or leading a product safety legal program
  • Decisive leadership skills
  • Exceptional business judgment
  • Ability to provide clear, pragmatic, and solutions-oriented advice under pressure
  • Outstanding communication skills

Nice to have

  • New York bar admission preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • deep subject matter and regulatory expertise
  • prior CPSC experience strongly preferred
  • deep focus on consumer product safety, product liability, and regulatory compliance
  • Deep experience and familiarity with the CPSC, its regulations and its processes
  • Significant experience with international product safety regimes is highly desirable
  • Extensive experience advising executives and boards of directors on high-stakes product safety and regulatory matters
  • proven track record of building or leading a product safety legal program