Associate General Counsel, Infrastructure Technology Transactions

Meta

$150K — $200K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • J.D. degree and bar membership in good standing in a U.S. state
  • 8+ years of experience in technology procurement and related agreements
  • Experience advising on legal risk and deal structuring for large-scale transactions
  • Proven ability to manage a high-volume portfolio with minimal supervision
  • Demonstrated organizational skills and experience handling competing projects

Responsibilities

  • Lead negotiation and drafting of complex infrastructure technology agreements
  • Provide strategic legal advice to Meta's Infrastructure organization
  • Develop and maintain standardized contract frameworks and playbooks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to meet company requirements
  • Manage outside counsel on hardware and software transaction matters
  • Leverage AI for improved contract review and transaction risk management
  • Establish best practices for infrastructure transaction support

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI infrastructure
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Chance to influence global data center operations
  • Access to ongoing professional development and training programs
  • Support for ethical AI practices and responsible technology use
Full Job Description
Meta seeks an experienced and motivated technology transactions attorney to join its Technology Transactions and Global Procurement Legal team supporting Meta Compute. In this role, you will serve as a strategic legal partner for complex commercial agreements that underpin the deployment of Meta's global data center infrastructure at scale, including AI compute, networks, and storage. You will work closely with Infrastructure, sourcing, supply chain, engineering, procurement, accounting and finance teams to structure, negotiate, and close high-value, technically complex transactions that enable Meta's platforms to serve billions of people worldwide. This role offers the exciting opportunity to join a growing legal team and work on emerging issues in AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end negotiation and drafting of complex infrastructure technology agreements, including the development, manufacturing, and procurement of custom silicon, CPU, memory, and other critical hardware components and services from key ASIC and OEM vendors, resellers, and technology licensing partners
• Serve as a trusted business partner to Meta's Infrastructure organization, providing strategic and practical legal advice and solutions to internal stakeholder
• Serve as a trusted business partner to Meta's Infrastructure organization, providing strategic and practical legal advice and solutions to internal stakeholder organizations to support transaction strategy, risk allocation, and critical commercial terms
• Develop and maintain scalable contract frameworks, playbooks, and standard form agreements for recurring transaction types
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across legal, finance, tax, privacy, security, and regulatory teams to align transaction structures with company-wide requirements
• Manage and coordinate outside counsel on specialized hardware and software transaction matters, ensuring quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness
• Leverage AI-integrated legal workflows to improve contract review efficiency, accelerate drafting cycles, and surface risk patterns across the infrastructure transaction portfolio
• Establish and share best practices across the legal team to improve consistency and scalability of infrastructure transaction support

Minimum Qualifications
• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• 8+ years of experience in negotiating and drafting sophisticated technology procurement, services, and related agreements (e.g., semiconductor development, IP licensing, hardware and software development agreements, master purchase agreements, master service agreements, statements of work), either in-house and/or at a global law firm
• Experience advising cross-functional business teams on legal risk, contract strategy, and deal structuring for large-scale infrastructure or technology transactions
• Experience independently managing a high-volume portfolio of complex transactions with minimal supervision, delivering practical legal solutions aligned with business objectives

Preferred Qualifications
• Proven organizational skills, experience prioritizing competing projects based on impact, deadlines, and stakeholder needs, following through, and meeting deadlines
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• In-house experience providing counsel to technology companies in the data center, cloud, semiconductor, hardware, networking, or foundry spaces
• Experience drafting custom agreements from scratch (i.e., not from existing templates) Proven communication skills, with experience in providing clear, concise, and practical guidance
• Knowledge of technical hardware development and manufacturing, including semiconductor design and manufacturing
• Experience using AI or legal technology tools to improve transaction workflow efficiency, contract analysis, or risk identification

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