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

Meta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an Associate General Counsel to counsel product, operations, and business teams on global legal risk, with a focus on Business Agents - Paid Messaging. This role blends product and privacy law in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

You will collaborate across privacy, regulatory, partnerships, and communications teams, providing strategic risk mitigation and compliant product guidance across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience in tech/product counseling or related field.
• J.D. degree and bar admission in at least one US state.
• Experience working independently and cross-functionally across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows and drive impact.
• Experience advising on data protection, privacy, and international frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze products, policies and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across jurisdictions.
• Provide legal advice to product, engineering and business teams on multiple subject areas including data protection, competition, IP, and global frameworks.
• Coordinate with privacy, regulatory, partnerships, communications and other cross-functional teams on multidisciplinary issues.
• Support privacy and data protection compliance initiatives related to paid messaging products.
• Advise clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms and enterprise tools.

Skills

Legal experience

Cross-functional work

AI tools awareness

Data protection

Product counseling

Risk assessment

Client counseling

Regulatory compliance

Education

J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent)

Job description

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.

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

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

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