Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy - Meta

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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

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

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