Lead Counsel, Payments - Monetization Legal
Meta

Job Info

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

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