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About the Role
Meta's Legal team is seeking a Commercial Counsel to support the AI Partnerships Legal group. This role will focus on the commercial legal aspects of bringing Meta's AI models to market and supporting significant AI relationships.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary legal partner for distributing Meta's AI models through cloud service providers, open source channels, and other go-to-market pathways.
- Structure, negotiate, and close distribution agreements to 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 for model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights.
- Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building and shipping AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta's apps.
- Work closely with business development, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams to enable fast-moving commercial activity in a rapidly evolving space.
Requirements
- J.D. or equivalent and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 5+ 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 assessing legal risk and advising business stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies in ambiguous or evolving regulatory environments.
- Comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving.
Skills
- Technology transactions
- Commercial licensing
- Strategic partnerships
- Structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements
- Legal risk assessment
- Risk mitigation strategies
- AI tools integration
- Working with CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP) on technology distribution or marketplace agreements
- Open source licensing frameworks
- AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration)
- Supporting go-to-market strategies for platform or developer ecosystem products
- AI/ML model licensing, distribution, or commercialization
- Responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of legal experience
Education Level
- J.D. or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $170,000/year to $237,000/year
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
About the Company
- Meta's AI strategy is a key focus.
- The AI Partnerships Legal team supports Meta's most commercially significant AI relationships.
- The work is fast-paced, high-visibility, and directly tied to Meta's AI strategy.