Associate General Counsel, Security Legal

We are seeking a highly motivated Associate General Counsel to work on Meta’s Central Security Legal Team, based in the United States and with a remit to support security, safety, integrity, product, regulatory and privacy equities worldwide. This is a great opportunity to work with a dynamic team on complex and novel legal and technological issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate would bring both United States and international criminal justice experience, civil litigation experience, and a keen interest in learning and working with new technologies and laws across jurisdictions and timezones. They should work effectively both independently as well as with large multi-stakeholder cross-functional teams. Key qualities include legal judgment, proven work ethic, executing under tight timelines, strategic thinking, solid communications skills and being proactive, flexible, collaborative, and diligent.Associate General Counsel, Security Legal Responsibilities

• Identify and advise business and product partners on legal obligations globally relating to data disclosure, platform safety and integrity, including child safety and other serious crimes.
• Provide security, safety, integrity and privacy legal guidance on a wide range of product developments, including private messaging products, e-commerce/payments related products, AR/VR products, and business products.
• Provide advice and support the processing of legal requests for user data, and manage the litigation of matters implicating user data preservation and disclosure in criminal and civil matters.
• Develop and implement effective policies for processing legal requests and protecting user data.
• Develop strategic approaches to managing regulatory, criminal and policy legal risks and resolving disputes.
• Work closely with the company’s safety and security teams to protect the people who use our service from abuse.
• Support legal and public policy teams’ engagement with regulators and legislators on safety and security policy.
• Collaborate with members of Public Policy, Legal, Community Operations, Product, Engineering and others on safety and security matters.
• Manage effective relationships with key government agencies, regulators, and law enforcement agencies, in close collaboration with internal cross-functional teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent).
• Active membership in at least one US state bar and eligibility to obtain registered in-house counsel status (if required by the State Bar in the assigned work location).
• 5+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm and/or in-house or government experience.
• Demonstrate business judgment and client counseling skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Experience managing and handling legal and regulatory issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience advising technology or telecommunications companies as in-house or outside counsel on regulatory, safety and security matters, investigations, policy and/or criminal process.
• Experience with U.S. law, particularly the Stored Communications Act, Wiretap Act, Pen Register/Trap and Trace Statute.
• Experience with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Stored Communications Act, General Data Protection Regulation, and and other analogous U.S. and international laws.
• Experience providing guidance to providers in responding to law enforcement requests and regulatory requests.
• Experience with Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty requests, Letters Rogatory, or other forms of international cooperation.
• Understanding of major EU laws regarding data disclosure and content moderation, including familiarity with the European General Data Protection Regulation.
• Criminal and civil litigation experience.

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