Los Angeles or Austin or Menlo Park or Seattle or Washington or New York City or San Francisco
Lead Counsel, AI Partnerships
Job details
- Location
- Los Angeles or Austin or Menlo Park or Seattle or Washington or New York City or San Francisco
- Work type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $170,000 - $237,000/yr
- Posted
- 4 days ago
- Apply on
- metacareers.com
About this role
About the Role
Meta's Legal team is looking for a Commercial Counsel to join our AI Partnerships Legal group. This role will support the full range of commercial legal work powering Meta's AI ambitions — with a particular focus on bringing our models to market across the broader ecosystem.
About the Team
The AI Partnerships Legal team supports Meta's most commercially significant AI relationships — from frontier model partnerships and data licensing to ecosystem distribution and product integrations. The work is fast-paced, high-visibility, and directly tied to Meta's AI strategy.
Responsibilities
- Model Distribution & Ecosystem Launch: Serve as the primary legal partner for efforts to distribute Meta's AI models through cloud service providers (CSPs), open source channels, and other go-to-market pathways
- Structure, negotiate, and close distribution agreements that enable broad model availability while protecting Meta's interests
- Large-Scale AI Commercial Transactions: Lead or support complex commercial deals involving AI technology — including strategic partnerships, joint development arrangements, and enterprise licensing
- Data Licensing: Advise on data acquisition and licensing transactions that fuel model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights
- Consumer Product Support: Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building and shipping AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta's family of apps
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with business development, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams to enable fast-moving commercial activity in a rapidly evolving space
Minimum Qualifications
- J.D. (or equivalent) and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 5+ years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent on technology transactions, commercial licensing, or strategic partnerships
- Experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements (cloud, SaaS, platform, or similar technology deals)
- Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and drive deals to close with minimal oversight
- Experience assessing legal risk and advising business stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies in ambiguous or evolving regulatory environments and comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Background working with CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP) on technology distribution or marketplace agreements
- Familiarity with open source licensing frameworks and community dynamics
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Experience supporting go-to-market strategies for platform or developer ecosystem products
- Direct experience with AI/ML model licensing, distribution, or commercialization
- Prior in-house experience at a technology company operating at scale
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Compensation
- $170,000/year - $237,000/year; Country: US; Bonus eligible; Equity eligible
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.
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