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Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy

Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Legal

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Job Description

Meta seeks an Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy to advise teams on third-party risk management, particularly Meta's Developer Platform. Leading a team of four attorneys, this role requires extensive cross-functional collaboration with product, compliance, engineering, and business teams. Responsibilities include becoming a product expert, providing legal risk mitigation strategies, advising on complex legal issues, ensuring compliance with regulations, and supporting Meta's global privacy program. The ideal candidate will proactively identify and resolve legal risks, enabling product teams to move efficiently while navigating a fast-paced, globally impactful environment.

Must have:

JD degree and US state bar membership
10+ years legal experience
Experience in litigation, regulatory, product counseling, data security, compliance, or privacy
Cross-functional collaboration skills
Risk mitigation and compliance expertise

Good to have:

Experience managing attorneys
Experience advising on compliance and risk management programs
Ability to explain complex technical and legal concepts clearly
Proven experience handling multiple projects
Strong problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

Meta seeks a highly motivated and experienced legal counsel to advise the teams responsible for third party risk management, including Meta’s Developer Platform, and to lead a team of four attorneys. This role will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, compliance, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal subject-matter experts, as you help shape the future of products used by billions of users worldwide. This is an opportunity to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment as we build and scale for our global community.

Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy Responsibilities

Become a deep subject-matter expert in the products you cover, building close connections with your product team through effective communication and collaboration

Serve as the first point of contact for your product team’s legal questions, and for the broader legal team’s questions about your product

Review new and changed products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions

Provide and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues applicable to the product you are supporting, including compliance with newly developing regulatory and legal obligations

Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk

Support Meta’s global privacy program, including advice on compliance assurance and support for external regulatory inquiries and audits

Coordinate with public policy, communications, product management, engineering, product marketing, trust and safety, and other cross-functional teams on external communications, policy development, internal investigations, and product development and launches

Minimum Qualifications

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

10+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm or in-house experience

Experience in one of the following areas: litigation, regulatory, product counseling, data security, compliance programs, and/or privacy counseling

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing other attorneys

Experience advising on compliance and risk management programs

Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms

Proven experience distilling complicated technical concepts for legal colleagues and to distill complicated legal concepts for technical colleagues

Experience working on multiple projects at once

Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills

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Locations

Data Center

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.

$226,000/year to $304,000/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 at Meta.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice .

Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to .

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$226.0K - $304.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$265.0K/yr avg.

New York, New York, United States

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