Lead Counsel, Payments - Monetization Legal at Meta in Burlingame, California

Job Description:

Meta seeks a product attorney with an understanding of the payments landscape to join our Monetization Legal Team. You will be supporting product teams that are working on our most relevant cross-Meta payments products and services. This role will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, partnerships, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal and compliance subject-matter experts, as you help shape the future of payment products worldwide. This is a great opportunity to join a growing international legal team and to work on payment issues.

Lead Counsel, Payments - Monetization Legal Responsibilities:

• Review new products, features and initiatives across multiple jurisdictions by assessing payment-related legal risks while providing practical legal advice to product, business and legal stakeholders across Meta


• Provide legal advice to help develop a comprehensive, long-term approach to launching payment products and programs globally


• Administration and resolution of legal issues and risks that arise in existing and new payment products by developing strategies and driving leadership alignment


• Maintain experience in payments and evaluate impact of relevant laws and regulations on Meta's payments products


• Demonstrate business judgment and client counseling skills

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 advising on payments-related legal risks and mitigations


• Experience working on multiple projects at once


• Proven problem-solving skills


• Experience making decisions in the face of ambiguity and evolving priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business judgment, willingness to provide practical solutions, and client counseling experience


• Demonstrated experience in understanding technology


• Experience advancing projects in a multi-stakeholder environment


• Experience demonstrating business judgment and practical counseling skills In-house experience with applicable product counseling


• Experience prioritizing work and providing advice under deadlines


• Experience with understanding technology

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. 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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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.


$167,000/year to $233,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits


Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta. Apply Now