Lead Counsel, Product
Facebook App

Job Info

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Facebook is one of the world's largest content platforms and plays a critical role in helping people discover content, creators, and communities they love. We are seeking a highly-motivated and experienced attorney to serve as Lead Product Counsel on the Facebook app Product Legal team. The role will focus on counseling the product and engineering teams that are building some of the most high-profile tools for users, publishers and content creators. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues internationally in a dynamic regulatory environment.

Lead Counsel, Product Responsibilities:

• Review global products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions
• Provide product, engineering and other business teams with legal advice across many subject areas including consumer protection law, platform/publisher liability, intellectual property, media law, data protection laws and regulations, etc.
• Coordinate with other members of legal, public policy, privacy, communications and other stakeholders on relevant issues

Minimum Qualifications:

• JD degree (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one US state bar
• 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney (law firm or in-house)
• Experience in one of the following areas: Technology, tool creation, content creation, licensing, user generated content and/or advising clients on legal issues related to privacy and data use

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product review experience
• Experience working on many different projects at once in a fast-paced environment
• Substantive experience in data privacy, consumer protection, and intellectual property law

Facebook is proud to be an Equal 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.Facebook 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 accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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