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
Minimum 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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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