Los Angeles or Atlanta or Menlo Park or Seattle or New York City or San Francisco or Chicago
Lead Counsel, IP Content & Product
Job details
- Location
- Los Angeles or Atlanta or Menlo Park or Seattle or New York City or San Francisco or Chicago
- Work type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $170,000 - $237,000/yr
- Posted
- yesterday
- Apply on
- metacareers.com
About this role
Meta seeks an attorney with deep experience in online intellectual property, artificial intelligence and intermediary liability issues to serve as Lead Counsel, IP Content & Product.
In this role, you will tackle cutting-edge IP issues on a global scale across Meta’s family of apps, products, and services, including AI, Reality Labs, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Messenger. You will be at the forefront of IP law and working on novel matters at the intersection of law and technology. These include continued expansion of product offerings across our platforms, development of Meta’s AI products, and tackling new content and intermediary liability laws around the world.
This role will involve counseling and working closely with legal colleagues, as well as product, engineering, operations, policy, and other business teams. It is an opportunity to join a highly creative and collaborative legal team and make an impact in an exciting, innovative, and dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate company products and features to provide practical and business-focused advice that manages global IP legal risks.
- Support the development and expansion of AI products and the Metaverse, and lead on IP legal issues across Reality Labs, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
- Advise on issues of direct and intermediary liability arising from copyright, trademark, news, right of publicity and other content-related laws (e.g., DMCA, CDA, EU Copyright Directive, DSA).
- Advise on new legislative and regulatory proposals governing AI-generated content, digital replicas, AI training, news content and the like.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, policy, operations, and other business teams, as well as legal colleagues.
- Work with a global network of outside counsel advising on IP issues.
Minimum Qualifications
- J.D. degree and membership in good standing in at least one state bar
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, either in-house or at a law firm
- Subject matter expertise in IP and related areas, including copyright and fair use, trademark, rights of publicity, and intellectual property licencing
- Subject matter expertise in global intermediary liability issues and laws, including DMCA, CDA, EU Copyright Directive, and DSA
- Experience with the evolving global IP regulatory landscape, including legal developments involving AI, direct and secondary liability, and other new IP laws
- Experience counseling on IP issues relating to new technologies
- Demonstrated ability to assess legal, practical, and business risks and provide clear, actionable guidance to stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to operate proactively, collaborate, and build cross-functional relationships with legal and business partners
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience advising on IP issues in the technology or social media industry
- Experience managing relationships with outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions
- Familiarity with Meta's products and services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Reality Labs
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver legal guidance on time-sensitive product launches
- 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)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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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