Associate General Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs - Litigation

About the role

Roku is looking for an Associate General Counsel, Litigation to join our Legal team. This role owns Roku’s litigation portfolio outside of intellectual property matters — including consumer class actions, commercial disputes, and government investigations, with a particular focus on privacy-related litigation and related regulatory enforcement actions — across a business that spans hardware, streaming, and one of the fastest-growing advertising platforms in media.

What you’ll be doing

• Litigation portfolio management

  • Own Roku’s corporate litigation portfolio outside of intellectual property — including consumer class actions, commercial and contract disputes, and privacy-related claims under laws such as the VPPA, CIPA and other wiretap-style statutes, BIPA, and CCPA — from intake and early case assessment through resolution
  • Define case strategy and make recommendations on when to litigate, settle, or escalate, in partnership with the Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, Legal teammates, and business stakeholders

• Government investigations and regulatory matters

  • Manage government investigations and inquiries — from the FTC, state attorneys general, data protection authorities, and other regulators — spanning privacy, consumer protection, advertising, and related areas
  • Coordinate cross-functional responses to regulatory matters, including with Privacy, Security, Communications, and Government Affairs

• Case strategy, creativity, and judgment

  • Develop novel legal theories and creative litigation strategies for matters that don’t fit a standard playbook, and know when a conventional approach is the right call and when it isn’t
  • Operate comfortably amid incomplete facts, unsettled law, and genuine uncertainty — and make sound, well-reasoned judgment calls anyway
  • Write the arguments, memos, and correspondence that move a matter forward — clear, persuasive, and built to withstand scrutiny from a judge, a regulator, or Management

• Litigation operations and outside counsel

  • Help build and scale repeatable litigation processes — intake, early case assessment, playbooks, and post-mortems — across the litigation portfolio, consistent with Roku’s broader litigation operating model
  • Manage outside counsel relationships and budgets across consumer class actions, government investigations, commercial disputes, and privacy litigation, driving efficient, high-quality outcomes

• Cross-functional partnership and reporting

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, Ads, Data/Analytics, and Compliance teams on litigation and privacy risk
  • Provide clear, decision-ready reporting on litigation exposure, trends, and key matters — including consumer class actions, government investigations, and privacy disputes — to the Deputy General Counsel and senior leadership

What you need to know

• Litigation experience

  • Substantial experience managing complex litigation at a top-tier law firm or in-house — including consumer class actions and government investigations — from case assessment through resolution
  • Skilled at developing litigation strategy and managing outside counsel to efficient, well-reasoned outcomes

• Creativity and comfort with ambiguity

  • A track record of finding creative, non-obvious solutions to hard legal problems, rather than defaulting to the conventional playbook
  • Genuinely comfortable operating without a clear precedent or roadmap — able to make sound judgment calls amid incomplete facts, unsettled law, and competing pressures

• Writing and thinking, at a genuinely high level

  • We hire for this specifically: the ability to write — and think — beautifully. Sentences that are clear, economical, and a pleasure to read, in service of an argument that is airtight underneath
  • A habit of working out hard problems by writing through them, not just talking around them — the writing is where the thinking gets done, not just where it gets recorded afterward
  • Outstanding legal writing — clear, persuasive, and fast — across audiences from opposing counsel and regulators to the Board
  • Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to advise senior stakeholders and simplify complex legal concepts

• Cross-functional influence

  • Proven ability to build relationships and operate effectively across a matrixed organization
  • Strong track record of handling complex legal issues in a fast-paced, technology-driven company

We’re excited if you have

• 15+ years of combined litigation experience at a law firm, in-house, or both
• Direct experience litigating consumer class actions and/or handling government investigations
• Distinctive litigation abilities:
  • The drive to solve novel questions of first impression — problems nobody in the building, and maybe nobody yet, has answered
  • The gift for breaking down complex arguments into simple, elegant narratives that persuade without ever feeling dumbed down
  • The ability to chart a clear path for the business through thickets of ambiguous laws and regulations
  • The instinct to find the argument, the angle, or the case theory that nobody else in the room sees
  • The judgment to know which fights are worth having, and the discipline to make that call and live with it
• A reputation as an exceptional legal writer, with work product — briefs, memos, opinions — that speaks for itself and that you’re proud to have us read
• Experience in high-growth technology or media companies
• J.D. from a U.S. accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing

What success looks like

• Litigation across the portfolio — consumer class actions, government investigations, and privacy disputes — is managed with clear strategy, consistency, and discipline
• Novel, first-of-their-kind legal questions get answered with original thinking, not a shrug or a borrowed answer
• Complex arguments reach decision-makers as simple, elegant narratives — never oversimplified, never impossible to follow
• The business has a clear, confident path through ambiguous laws and regulations, even where the law hasn’t caught up yet
• Roku picks its fights deliberately, and stands behind the ones it picks
• Outside counsel spend across the litigation portfolio is efficient, predictable, and aligned to outcomes
• Legal is a trusted, proactive partner to business and functional teams on litigation risk
• Leadership has clear visibility into litigation risk, exposure, and trends across the portfolio