Lead Counsel, AI Partnerships
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Doctorate
- Listed
- 14 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Commercial contract negotiation
- Technology transactions
- Commercial licensing
- Strategic partnerships
- Legal risk assessment
- Regulatory analysis in evolving environments
Also useful
- Cloud service provider agreements (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Open source licensing frameworks
- AI/ML model licensing and distribution
- Go-to-market strategy for platform or developer ecosystems
- AI tools integration for workflow optimization
- Responsible AI practices
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About the Role
Meta's Legal team is looking for a Commercial Counsel to join our AI Partnerships Legal group. This role will support the full range of commercial legal work powering Meta's AI ambitions — with a particular focus on bringing our models to market across the broader ecosystem.
Lead Counsel, AI Partnerships Responsibilities
- Model Distribution & Ecosystem Launch: Serve as the primary legal partner for efforts to distribute Meta's AI models through cloud service providers (CSPs), open source channels, and other go-to-market pathways
- Structure, negotiate, and close distribution agreements that enable broad model availability while protecting Meta's interests
- Large-Scale AI Commercial Transactions: Lead or support complex commercial deals involving AI technology — including strategic partnerships, joint development arrangements, and enterprise licensing
- Data Licensing: Advise on data acquisition and licensing transactions that fuel model training and product development, including negotiating inbound and outbound data rights
- Consumer Product Support: Provide commercial legal counsel to teams building and shipping AI-powered consumer experiences across Meta's family of apps
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with business development, product, engineering, policy, and other legal teams to enable fast-moving commercial activity in a rapidly evolving space
Minimum Qualifications
- 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 and comfortable advising where the law is unsettled or evolving
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Background working with CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP) on technology distribution or marketplace agreements
- Familiarity with open source licensing frameworks and community dynamics
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Experience supporting go-to-market strategies for platform or developer ecosystem products
- Direct experience with AI/ML model licensing, distribution, or commercialization
- Prior in-house experience at a technology company operating at scale
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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The AI Partnerships Legal team supports Meta's most commercially significant AI relationships — from frontier model partnerships and data licensing to ecosystem distribution and product integrations. The work is fast-paced, high-visibility, and directly tied to Meta's AI strategy.
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People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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United States of America: $170,000/year to $237,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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