Lead Counsel, Product (Facebook)

About the role

The 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. This role focuses on Verticals and Monetization, including integrity and regulatory-related legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Provide broader product counseling to Facebook product, engineering, and business teams on a range of legal subject areas, including data protection, privacy, competition, intellectual property, and advertising law.
• Serve as a primary legal partner to product and engineering teams, providing practical, strategic legal advice on complex and novel legal questions related to, among other things, fraud and scams, consumer protection, product and content safety, and emerging integrity-related regulatory frameworks.
• Build and scale legal solutions that enable product teams to meet regulatory obligations while maintaining product velocity and innovation.
• Analyze new products, features, and business models to identify and mitigate legal risks across multiple jurisdictions.
• Advisory on a broad range of legal subject areas, including consumer protection, data protection, privacy, competition, intellectual property, and emerging legal frameworks.
• Drive high-profile, high-impact projects involving legal analysis and compliance with cross-functional stakeholders (business, policy, legal, communications, security, etc.).
• Influence product and business decisions, ensuring alignment with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Proactively identify and address potential legal roadblocks, developing plans to mitigate risks with clear, actionable recommendations.

Requirements

• 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.
• 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm, in-house, or in government.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable legal processes or compliance solutions for product teams.
• Experience advising on regulatory compliance and/or responding to regulator inquiries or enforcement actions.
• Experience with advertising, privacy, data protection, consumer protection, competition, and/or intellectual property laws and regulations.
• Experience with global regulatory developments related to online fraud, scams, consumer protection, and product safety.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Experience counseling integrity, trust & safety, or platform enforcement teams and/or general product counseling experience at a technology or media company.

Skills

• Experience with AI technologies and tools.
• Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• Proven track record of delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Meta offers competitive compensation, including a base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary, plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.