Lead Counsel, Monetization

Meta•Washington, DC

1d•$202,000 - $274,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as Lead Counsel on its legal team, focusing on monetization, related user controls, and transparency for AI-driven advertising products. The role provides strategic legal counsel to product, engineering, and business teams developing and scaling Meta's monetization and user-control surfaces. It operates at the intersection of privacy, consumer protection, and emerging AI regulation, identifying and mitigating legal risk across global jurisdictions as Meta's monetization ecosystem evolves.

Requirements

J.D. degree or foreign equivalent.
Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar and eligibility to obtain registered in-house counsel status if required by the State Bar in the assigned work location.
At least 5 years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including law firm, in-house, and/or government experience.
Experience advising on legal issues related to digital advertising, AI-driven products, or technology platforms across multiple jurisdictions.
Experience independently and cross-functionally managing and delivering complex legal projects involving multiple stakeholders.
Experience applying data protection, consumer protection, or competition law frameworks to technology products or services.

Nice To Haves

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and compliance with emerging AI regulatory requirements.
Ability to integrate AI tools into legal workflows and drive measurable efficiency or quality improvements.
Experience advising on legal and regulatory frameworks specific to AI-generated content and user controls related to ads.
Experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
In-house experience at a technology company, particularly in product counseling for advertising, AI, or monetization products.

Responsibilities

Provide proactive legal counsel to product, engineering, and monetization business teams on AI-powered advertising products, user controls, and related revenue-generating surfaces.
Analyze new and evolving monetization features and AI capabilities to identify legal risks across data protection, consumer protection, intellectual property, and competition law frameworks in multiple jurisdictions.
Develop and apply legal frameworks for novel monetization use cases, including generative AI in advertising and related user controls.
Partner with privacy, regulatory, commercial, and litigation legal teams to coordinate cross-functional legal strategy on monetization and AI product initiatives.
Collaborate with public policy, communications, and partnerships teams on multidisciplinary legal and regulatory issues affecting Meta's advertising and AI monetization products.
Support compliance initiatives related to global AI regulations, advertising standards, and data protection laws as they apply to monetization products.
Identify emerging legal risks in the AI monetization landscape and propose scalable risk-mitigation approaches.
Engage with and influence stakeholders across product, operations, and business teams to drive legally sound product decisions at scale.
Develop and maintain legal guidance, frameworks, and documentation to support consistent and efficient counseling across monetization and AI product teams.