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Associate General Counsel, Product (Business Agents - Paid Messaging)

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull Time$202,000–$274,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • J.D. degree
  • US state bar
  • practicing attorney
  • law firm
  • in-house experience
  • independent
  • cross-functionally
  • multiple projects

Nice to have

  • AI tools
  • workflow optimization
  • efficiency gains
  • quality improvements
  • technology product platforms
  • enterprise tools

Role summary

Meta is seeking an Associate General Counsel for its product counseling team, focusing on Business Agents - Paid Messaging. This role involves providing strategic legal advice to product, operations, and business teams to mitigate global legal risks, particularly concerning product and privacy. Responsibilities include analyzing products and initiatives, advising on data protection, international competition, and intellectual property laws, and coordinating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of legal experience, a JD, bar membership, and experience in fast-paced tech environments. Preferred qualifications include experience with AI tools, technology product platforms, and ethical AI practices.

Meta is seeking a highly motivated and experienced team player to serve as Associate General Counsel on Meta's product counseling team. The position will focus on providing strategic legal counseling to internal product, operations, and business teams in order to identify and mitigate global legal risk, primarily in connection with Meta's Business Agents - Paid Messaging. The role sits at the intersection of product and privacy, working closely with other legal department subgroups and requiring the creation and application of legal frameworks to new and innovative products and services. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities
  • Analyze products, policies and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions
  • Provide product, engineering, and other business teams with legal advice across many subject areas including data protection laws and regulations, international competition law frameworks, intellectual property laws, and other global legal frameworks
  • Help drive consensus and coordinate with public policy, partnerships, communications and other cross-functional teams on multi-disciplinary issues
  • Work cross-functionally with attorneys from other legal teams such as privacy, regulatory, commercial, and litigation
  • Support privacy and data protection compliance initiatives as they relate to Business Agents - Paid Messaging products


Minimum Qualifications
  • J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar
  • 8+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney (including at a law firm or in-house experience)
  • Experience working independently and cross-functionally
  • Experience working on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment


Preferred Qualifications
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
  • Experience working with enterprise tools, developer platforms, messaging services or other Internet technologies
  • In-house experience at a technology company
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Business judgment and client counseling experience
  • Experience in product counseling and data protection related international frameworks


$202,000/year to $274,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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