Counsel, AI

Meta; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK seeks an experienced Counsel for their AI counseling team. The role involves advising on legal and regulatory issues relating to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Candidates should possess a law degree and have over 3 years of legal experience, ideally in technology or Internet companies. The position offers a dynamic workplace where innovative legal solutions are developed. This full-time role is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI law.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of legal experience required.
• Experience with mobile/application development, social networking, or similar.
• Must have a current practicing certificate to practice law.

Responsibilities

• Advise AI and ML teams on legal/regulatory issues.
• Review AI and ML initiatives for legal risk.
• Coordinate with public policy and communications teams.

Skills

Legal risk mitigation strategies

Consumer protection laws

Data protection laws

Cross-functional collaboration

AI and ML understanding

Education

Law degree or equivalent

Job description

Meta seeks an experienced tech enthusiast to serve as a Counsel on Meta's AI counseling team. The role is dedicated to advising the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning teams on legal and regulatory issues, which will require application of complex, evolving legal frameworks to a new and innovative space. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment, as we build and scale our global community. This is a full‑time position.

Required Skills and Responsibilities

• Review proposed AI and ML 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 consumer protection laws, IP, data protection laws and regulations, and other global legal frameworks.
• Coordinate with public policy, communications and other cross‑functional teams on multi‑disciplinary issues.
• Meta requires all employed attorneys to have a law degree or equivalent certificate to permit the practice of law and be appropriately licensed and authorized to practice law for the company in their assigned work location. Unless prohibited under local law, an attorney must hold a current practicing certificate (including where required from the relevant authority in the jurisdiction of the assigned work location) or the local law equivalent bar registration or license as may be applicable.
• 3+ years of legal experience.
• Experience working with mobile, application development, social networking, or other Internet companies.
• Experience working in autonomy and cross‑functionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• In‑house and privacy experience.
• Technology litigation experience.
• Understanding of AI and ML practices and the underlying technology.
• Product review experience.
• International experience.

Industry

• Internet