Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy

Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy

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Meta seeks a highly motivated and experienced legal counsel to advise the teams responsible for third party risk management, including Meta's Developer Platform, and to lead a team of four attorneys. This role will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, compliance, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal subject-matter experts, as you help shape the future of products used by billions of users worldwide. This is an opportunity to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment as we build and scale for our global community.

Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy Responsibilities

• Become a deep subject-matter expert in the products you cover, building close connections with your product team through effective communication and collaboration


• Serve as the first point of contact for your product team's legal questions, and for the broader legal team's questions about your product


• Review new and changed products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions


• Provide and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues applicable to the product you are supporting, including compliance with newly developing regulatory and legal obligations


• Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk


• Support Meta's global privacy program, including advice on compliance assurance and support for external regulatory inquiries and audits


• Coordinate with public policy, communications, product management, engineering, product marketing, trust and safety, and other cross-functional teams on external communications, policy development, internal investigations, and product development and launches

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar


• 10+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm or in-house experience


• Experience in one of the following areas: litigation, regulatory, product counseling, data security, compliance programs, and/or privacy counseling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing other attorneys


• Experience advising on compliance and risk management programs


• Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms


• Proven experience distilling complicated technical concepts for legal colleagues and to distill complicated legal concepts for technical colleagues


• Experience working on multiple projects at once


• Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com .

$226,000/year to $304,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.