Meta Platforms · Menlo Park, CA

Associate General Counsel, AI Product

Menlo Park, CALegal & Compliance

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Job description

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 consumer apps and 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

Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building and shipping AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta's family of apps, including Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. This includes the third-party relationships that power agentic capabilities and the novel questions that come with an agent acting on a user's behalf Serve as a 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

  • Lead or support complex commercial deals involving AI technology — including strategic partnerships, joint development arrangements, and enterprise licensing
  • Advise on data acquisition and licensing transactions that fuel model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights
  • Work closely with business development, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams to enable fast-moving commercial activity in a rapidly evolving space

Qualifications

J.D. (or equivalent) and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

  • 10+ 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 exercising legal judgment on risk in ambiguous or evolving regulatory environments and comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies Experience supporting go-to-market or partnership strategies for technology products and platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements) Prior in-house experience at a technology company operating at scale Experience advising on AI or emerging technology products, including licensing, distribution, or commercialization

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