Meta seeks to tackle cutting-edge IP issues on a global scale across its family of apps, products, and services, including AI, Reality Labs, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Messenger, by hiring a Lead Counsel, IP Product to provide practical and business-focused advice that manages global IP legal risk.
Requirements
- Subject matter expertise in IP and related areas, including Copyright and Fair Use, Trademark, Rights of Publicity, and IP licensing
- 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 experience to independently and quickly assess legal, practical, and business risks, and provide clear guidance in connection with the same
- Demonstrated experience to operate proactively, collaborate, and build cross-functional relationships with legal and business partners
Responsibilities
- Evaluate company products and features to provide practical and business-focused advice that manages global IP legal risk
- Advise on issues of direct and secondary liability arising from copyright, trademark, and other IP and content-related laws (e.g., Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Communications Decency Act (CDA), EU Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act (DSA))
- 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
- 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
Other
- J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent)
- Active membership in at least one US state bar and eligibility to obtain registered in-house counsel status (if required by the State Bar in the assigned work location)
- 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm and/or in-house or government experience
- highly collaborative and passionate candidate
- individual contributor position
