Meta seeks an experienced lawyer to serve as Associate General Counsel for the Business Messaging 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 APAC Monetization team. The role will work closely with other legal department subgroups and will require creating and applying 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.
Associate General Counsel, APAC Monetization Responsibilities:
- Analyze products, policies and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for products with global reach
- 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, marketing laws and regulations, and other global legal frameworks
- Help drive consensus and coordinate with public policy, partnerships, compliance, 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
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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
- 8+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney (including at a law firm or in-house experience) in the area of technology and product development
- Able to operate both independently and cross-functionally
- Experience working on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment
- Proven problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- In-house experience at a technology company
- Familiarity with ad tech, social media products and infrastructure, developer platforms, messaging services or other Internet technologies
- Product counseling experience, including direct collaboration with clients on risk mitigation across different technologies and legal frameworks
- Expertise in data protection and/or competition-related laws and regulations
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.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.
