Lead Counsel, Product

Meta • Boston, MA • 1h ago

Summary:

Meta's Product Counsel organization provides strategic legal advice and risk mitigation to product, engineering, and business teams across Meta's family of apps and services. Attorneys in this organization partner cross-functionally to address complex, novel legal issues in a fast-paced, innovative environment and influence product and business decisions at scale.This role sits within the Product Counsel team focused on Instagram, advising Instagram's product and engineering teams on a broad range of legal matters including privacy, data protection, consumer protection, intellectual property, advertising, and platform integrity. The attorney in this role will serve as a strategic legal partner to Instagram's leadership and cross-functional teams, helping navigate evolving regulatory frameworks, building scalable legal solutions, and ensuring that Instagram's products and features are developed and launched responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws worldwide.

Required Skills:

Lead Counsel, Product Responsibilities:

Serve as the primary legal partner to Instagram product, engineering, and business teams, providing practical and strategic legal advice on complex and novel legal questions arising from Instagram's products, features, and business models

Advise on a broad range of legal subject areas relevant to Instagram, including privacy, data protection, consumer protection, intellectual property, advertising law, platform integrity, and emerging regulatory frameworks

Analyze new Instagram products and features to identify and mitigate legal risks across multiple jurisdictions, including the EU, US, and other key markets

Build and scale legal solutions and frameworks that enable Instagram product teams to meet regulatory obligations while maintaining product velocity and innovation

Drive high-impact, cross-functional projects involving legal analysis and compliance, partnering with policy, communications, security, operations, and business stakeholders

Influence Instagram product and business decisions by ensuring alignment with legal and regulatory requirements and proactively identifying legal risk mitigation opportunities

Develop and deliver clear, actionable legal guidance to non-legal audiences, including product managers, engineers, and business leaders across Instagram

Monitor and assess evolving global regulatory developments relevant to Instagram, including those related to content moderation, youth safety, advertising, and data privacy, and translate those developments into practical product and compliance guidance

Collaborate with Meta's broader legal, policy, and compliance teams to ensure consistency and alignment on cross-cutting legal issues affecting Instagram and Meta's family of apps

Proactively identify systemic legal risks across Instagram's product portfolio and develop scalable approaches to address them across teams and geographies

Minimum Qualifications:

Active bar license in good standing 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

Experience providing legal advice on technology, internet, social media, or consumer-facing digital products and services

Experience with privacy, data protection, consumer protection, advertising law, intellectual property, and/or platform regulatory compliance

Experience communicating complex legal issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/@context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Experience with regulatory engagement, inquiries, or investigations involving advertising or platform products

Experience advising social media, consumer internet, or mobile application product and engineering teams on developing advertising, commerce, and monetization products

Public Compensation:

$202,000/year to $274,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereo@types, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

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