Associate General Counsel, AI Product

Meta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 233,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Legal team seeks a Commercial Counsel to support AI Partnerships, focusing on bringing consumer apps and AI models to market across ecosystems. You will advise on data rights, licensing, and strategic partnerships, negotiating complex deals with CSPs and open-source channels.

The role emphasizes independent judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and navigating evolving regulatory landscapes in a fast-moving AI space.

Qualifications

• J.D. and bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Experience in technology transactions, commercial licensing, or strategic partnerships.
• Ability to structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements (cloud, SaaS, platform, or similar tech deals).
• Ability to operate independently and close deals with minimal oversight.
• Experience handling risk and regulatory uncertainties in evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta apps.
• Negotiate and close distribution agreements enabling model availability while protecting Meta
• Lead or support complex commercial deals including strategic partnerships and licensing.
• Advise on data acquisition and licensing for model training and product development.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams for rapid commercial activity.

Skills

Tech transactions

Commercial licensing

Strategic partnerships

Negotiation

Regulatory risk assessment

Education

J.D. (or equivalent) and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

Job description

Meta's Legal team is looking for a Commercial Counsel to join our AI Partnerships Legal group. This role will support the full range of commercial legal work powering Meta's AI ambitions - with a particular focus on bringing our consumer apps and models to market across the broader ecosystem.

About the Team

The AI Partnerships Legal team supports Meta's most commercially significant AI relationships - from frontier model partnerships and data licensing to ecosystem distribution and product integrations. The work is fast-paced, high-visibility, and directly tied to Meta's AI strategy.

Associate General Counsel, AI Product Responsibilities

• Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building and shipping AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta's family of apps, including Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. This includes the third-party relationships that power agentic capabilities and the novel questions that come with an agent acting on a user's behalf
• Serve as a legal partner for efforts to distribute Meta's AI models through cloud service providers (CSPs), open source channels, and other go-to-market pathways. Structure, negotiate, and close distribution agreements that enable broad model availability while protecting Meta's interests
• Lead or support complex commercial deals involving AI technology - including strategic partnerships, joint development arrangements, and enterprise licensing
• Advise on data acquisition and licensing transactions that fuel model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights
• Work closely with business development, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams to enable fast-moving commercial activity in a rapidly evolving space

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. (or equivalent) and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• 10+ years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent on technology transactions, commercial licensing, or strategic partnerships
• Experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements (cloud, SaaS, platform, or similar technology deals)
• Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and drive deals to close with minimal oversight
• Experience exercising legal judgment on risk in ambiguous or evolving regulatory environments and comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience supporting go-to-market or partnership strategies for technology products and platforms
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Prior in-house experience at a technology company operating at scale
• Experience advising on AI or emerging technology products, including licensing, distribution, or commercialization

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.

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$233,000/year to $313,000/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.