Job Description

Facebook seeks a highly motivated and experienced attorney who is enthusiastic about technology and its potential for positive impact in peoples lives to serve as an Associate General Counsel on Facebooks product counseling team. This role will focus on supporting Facebook Connectivitys mission - to bring more people online to a faster Internet. The role will work closely with product, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal department subgroups, and will require creating and applying legal frameworks to new and innovative products and services. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment, as we build and scale our global community.

Associate General Counsel, Product (Connectivity) Responsibilities

* Review global products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions

* Provide product, engineering, and other business teams with legal advice across many subject areas including privacy and data protection laws and regulations, and other global legal frameworks

* Help drive consensus and coordinate with public policy, partnerships, communications and other cross-functional teams on multi-disciplinary issues

Minimum Qualifications

* J.D. degree and membership in at least one U.S. state bar

* 8+ years of legal experience (including at a law firm or in-house experience)

* Experience working independently and cross-functionally

* Experience working on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment

* Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience in-house at a technology company

* Experience counseling in B2B, telecommunications, infrastructure, wireless and/or mobile technologies

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.