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Associate General Counsel, AI Product

Meta

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Compensation
$233–313K/yr
Location
Washington, DC
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Active U.S. Bar MembershipDoctorate

Job overview

Meta’s Legal team seeks an Associate General Counsel to support commercial legal work for AI-powered consumer experiences and AI partnerships. The role advises on AI model distribution, strategic partnerships, technology licensing, and data transactions, while working with business development, product, engineering, policy, and legal teams. The work supports Meta’s AI strategy across consumer apps and the broader ecosystem.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Commercial Legal CounselTechnology TransactionsCommercial LicensingStrategic PartnershipsCommercial Agreement NegotiationCloud AgreementsSaaS AgreementsPlatform AgreementsLegal JudgmentRisk AssessmentPrompt EngineeringContext EngineeringAgent OrchestrationResponsible AI PracticesBias MitigationAI Quality ReviewsAI Accuracy ReviewsGo-to-Market StrategyAI Workflow OptimizationAI Product AdvisingAI LicensingAI DistributionAI Commercialization

Qualifications

J.D. Or EquivalentActive U.S. Bar Membership10+ Years Legal ExperienceIn-House Technology Experience

Full job description

Summary:

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 TeamThe 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.

Required Skills:

Associate General Counsel, AI Product Responsibilities:

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Lead or support complex commercial deals involving AI technology — including strategic partnerships, joint development arrangements, and enterprise licensing

  4. Advise on data acquisition and licensing transactions that fuel model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights

  5. 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:

Minimum Qualifications:

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

  2. 10+ years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent on technology transactions, commercial licensing, or strategic partnerships

  3. Experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements (cloud, SaaS, platform, or similar technology deals)

  4. Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and drive deals to close with minimal oversight

  5. Experience exercising legal judgment on risk in ambiguous or evolving regulatory environments and comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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

  3. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  4. Experience supporting go-to-market or partnership strategies for technology products and platforms

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

  6. Prior in-house experience at a technology company operating at scale

  7. Experience advising on AI or emerging technology products, including licensing, distribution, or commercialization

Public Compensation:

$233,000/year to $313,000/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 stereotypes, 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 [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 2,724 open Legal Counsel jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$233–313K/yr
  • Washington, D.C. median$170–243K/yr101 salary ranges
  • US median$155–231K/yr2,050 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $273K, is 30% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($210K) — in the top quarter of Legal Counsel salary ranges in Washington, D.C..

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 113 open Legal Counsel jobs in Washington, D.C. and 2,724 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Legal Counsel postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,420 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a doctorate or professional degree; 1,967 of the 2,724 open Legal Counsel jobs (72%) ask for a doctorate or professional degree.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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