Lead Counsel, Youth

Meta; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta’s Legal team seeks an experienced Product Counsel to support youth-focused products across Meta’s apps. You’ll partner with product, policy, engineering, and ops teams to ensure safety, privacy, and regulatory compliance for teens and families across features and safeguards.

You will monitor evolving youth laws, advise on risk, and help shape internal standards and external commitments related to youth wellbeing.

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney (firm, in-house, or government).
• Experience advising on children's or teens' privacy/online safety laws (COPPA, UK/EU regimes).
• Experience working with product and engineering teams to assess risk and implement compliance.
• Experience handling regulatory inquiries or government-facing matters.

Responsibilities

• Advise on compliance with children's and teens' privacy laws and online safety requirements.
• Assess legal risks for new product launches and features for youth.
• Partner with policy, trust and safety, and operations to shape youth safety commitments.
• Monitor regulatory developments and translate into actionable guidance for product teams.
• Develop and maintain compliance frameworks and product review processes for youth obligations.
• Engage with regulators and external stakeholders on youth products and safety.
• Contribute to team goals by sharing legal insights and shaping strategy.

Skills

Legal advising

Product collaboration

Regulatory risk

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity management

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Meta's Legal team is seeking an experienced Product Counsel to support our youth-focused products and experiences across Meta's family of apps. In this role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner to product, policy, engineering, and operations teams building features and safeguards for younger users. You will navigate a complex and rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape — including youth privacy/data protection laws, age-appropriate design requirements, and online safety frameworks — to help Meta build products that are safe, responsible, and compliant for teens and families.Meta’s Product Counsel organization provides strategic legal advice and risk mitigation to product, engineering, and business teams across Meta’s family of products and services. The organization partners cross-functionally to address complex, novel legal issues in a fast-paced, innovative environment, and influences product and business decisions at scale.

Lead Counsel, Youth Responsibilities:

• Advise on compliance with children's and teens' privacy laws and regulations, including youth privacy/data protection laws, age-appropriate design requirements, and online safety laws
• Identify and assess legal risks associated with new product launches and feature changes affecting younger users, and develop practical mitigation strategies
• Partner with policy, trust and safety, and operations teams to shape internal standards and external commitments related to youth safety and online wellbeing
• Monitor and analyze emerging legislative and regulatory developments impacting youth online safety and privacy, and translate their implications into actionable guidance for product and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and maintain compliance frameworks, product review processes, and documentation supporting youth-related legal obligations
• Engage with regulatory inquiries, government investigations, and external stakeholders on matters related to youth products and safety
• Contribute to team-level goals by identifying legal trends, sharing insights across the broader legal organization, and helping shape Meta's approach to youth-related legal strategy

Minimum Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution
• Active and in good standing bar license in at least one U.S. state or equivalent foreign bar license. Where the jurisdiction of licensure differs from the location in which the role is based, the ability to promptly obtain permission to practice law for Meta in that location
• 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm, in-house, or in government
• Experience advising on children's or teens' privacy and online safety laws and regulations (e.g., COPPA, UK AADC, UK OSA, EU DSA, AU SMMA)
• Experience working directly with product and engineering teams to assess legal risk and implement compliance requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Experience managing regulatory inquiries or government-facing matters related to consumer, privacy, or platform safety issues
• Demonstrated experience providing legal advice on technology, internet, or media products and services
• Effective communication, legal writing, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated business judgment, client counseling, and strategic thinking skills
• Proven track record of delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience making decisions in the face of ambiguity and evolving priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Familiarity with age-appropriate design frameworks, parental consent mechanisms, and minor-specific data handling requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• In-house legal experience at a consumer technology or social media company with youth-facing products
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

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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$170,000/year to $237,000/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.