Senior Legal Counsel (Product), Khan Kids

This fellowship offers a meaningful opportunity for a legal professional with a strong background in product counseling, privacy, and international regulatory matters to support one of Khan Academy's most exciting growth areas. You will serve as the primary legal partner to the Khan Kids team, guiding the design and launch of new products and features with a particular focus on our new program for English language learning for global audiences. Your work will span privacy compliance for children's products, international market entry analysis, and the drafting of customer-facing legal documents, all in service of bringing joyful, high-quality learning experiences to young children everywhere. Join us in our commitment to providing free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Our Senior Legal Counsel, Khan Academy Kids will be working closely with the Khan Kids team, providing day-to-day legal support across product development and international expansion:

• Serve as the business partner to the Khan Kids product, engineering, and international programs teams, providing first-line legal and regulatory guidance on new features and products.
• Provide product counseling throughout the development cycle, from ideation through launch, with a focus on privacy-by-design, age-appropriate content and data practices, and responsible use of AI in children's products.
• Advise on privacy compliance for children's products under COPPA, GDPR (including age-appropriate design requirements), and regional data protection laws applicable to young users in target markets.
• Draft, review, and update terms of service, privacy policies, and parental consent flows for Khan Kids products, including the new English-learning program.
• Analyze tax, business registration, and digital services laws relevant to offering Khan Kids products in international markets.
• Coordinate with local counsel in target jurisdictions to confirm regulatory requirements and obtain market-specific legal advice.
• Develop scalable legal resources such as compliance guides, contract templates, and internal training materials tailored to the Khan Kids product line.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to create user experiences that are both legally compliant and true to the playful, child-centered spirit of Khan Academy Kids.
• Tackle additional legal matters as they arise, with a global perspective.

This is a remote role reporting to our General Counsel.

We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.

Bring out the joy

We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.

Cultivate learning mindset

We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.

Deliver wow

We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.

As part of this commitment, Khan Academy will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact careers@khanacademy.org