Meta Looking For Associate General Counsel, Product (Business Messaging) at Menlo Park, CA Full Time

Meta seeks a highly motivated attorney who is enthusiastic about technology and its potential for positive impact in people’s lives to join Meta’s Product Legal group to support the Business Messaging organization. The Business Messaging team’s mission is to make business messaging the primary way people and businesses communicate. The position will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, privacy, commercial and business teams. The ideal candidate is comfortable with and responsive to rapid developments and changes in direction as well as working with technologies, products and in practice areas without much precedence. This is an opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

Associate General Counsel, Product (Business Messaging) Responsibilities:

Review and advise on global product marketing and sales programs and initiatives to provide legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions

Lead and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues such as data use and privacy, sales and marketing, competition, and other global legal frameworks

Collaborate with and drive influence across legal and business team subject matter experts, and guide escalations to appropriate stakeholders in order to take strategic and informed risks to meet client needs

Coordinate with policy, communications, product management, engineering, sales and other cross-functional teams on business strategy

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

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

Experience with one of the following or related legal area: product or regulatory counseling, privacy, data protection, competition or marketing & sales

Preferred Qualifications:
Legal judgment and strategic thinking, along with experience working both independently and cross-functionally

Experience building and scaling legal processes and operations

Experience working on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, delivering practical advice under pressure and operating within ambiguity

Experience taking on projects involving different subject matters and areas of law, developing expertise quickly, and working cross-functionally

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