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.
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
