Lead Counsel, EMEA Content and Integrity Legal

6 Months ago • 5 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

Meta seeks a Lead Counsel for its EMEA Content and Integrity Legal team. This role provides legal support to internal teams on complex content and integrity issues, focusing on regulations like the UK Online Safety Act, the Digital Services Act, and the Irish Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, as well as regulations in the Middle East and Africa. Responsibilities include advising on regulatory compliance, managing risk mitigation, supporting regulatory submissions, resolving content escalations, and liaising with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Policy). The ideal candidate is an experienced lawyer with a deep understanding of content regulation and intermediary liability, capable of translating regulatory requirements for diverse stakeholders. The role requires strong judgment, collaboration, and a keen interest in technology law.
Must have:
  • 5+ years PQE
  • In-house/law firm experience
  • Content regulation expertise (OSA, DSA, OSMRA)
  • Intermediary liability understanding
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Regulatory engagement & submissions
Good to have:
  • Experience in Middle East/Africa region
  • Ireland or UK qualified
  • Experience with large-scale measures

Job Details

Meta is seeking a talented Lawyer to join its global Content and Integrity team, focusing on the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region. This role involves providing legal support to cross functional internal teams for cutting-edge and complex content and integrity legal issues and projects. The work focuses on counseling on content/integrity regulatory requirements, especially the the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Irish Online Safety and Media Regulation Act (OSMRA), and also the Middle East and Africa region, across Meta’s family of apps. It will require translating regulatory requirements to cross functional teams and analyzing and managing mitigations and remediations, across a wide variety of product areas, as well as supporting regulatory engagement and submissions. You will work closely with other legal teams and cross-functionally (including e.g. Engineering, Operations, Policy), as well as liaise externally and should be able to use initiative in identifying solutions and connecting the dots in our large and complex organisation. The role requires good judgment, a strong work ethic, and a keen interest in learning about new technologies and areas of the law. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and to work on novel issues in a fast-paced, energetic environment. The ideal candidate would be an experienced, motivated content/integrity or regulatory compliance lawyer, with comprehensive knowledge of the evolving global content regulatory landscape, impacting user-generated content as well as advertising and a comprehensive understanding of processes at scale. Alternatively, experience gained in another heavily regulated area will be considered. This is a full time role and office based.
Lead Counsel, EMEA Content and Integrity Legal Responsibilities
  • Supporting regulatory engagement and submissions, including drafting
  • Advise and support Meta’s content and integrity regulatory and product teams in preparing for and responding to content and integrity regulation in EMEA
  • Counsel crossfunctional teams on implementation options, legal risk and efficient processes, across Meta’s family of products
  • Support and help efficiently resolve escalations involving content/integrity, including legal takedown requests and policy and press inquiries
  • Provide legal advice on intermediary liability
  • Build strong relationships and interface closely with a diverse set of Legal, Engineering, Operations, Data, Policy and subject matter experts
  • Supervise and direct outside counsel on select requests
Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years Post-Qualification Experience qualified lawyer
  • In-house or law firm experience advising a heavily regulated industry, translating from regulatory requirements to cross-functional stakeholders
  • Comprehensive understanding and experience of content regulation, ideally the UK OSA, OSMRA and the DSA (but minimum one of these) and concept of intermediary liability under the E-Commerce Directive
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and make sound judgments under tight deadlines
  • Fluent English
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience assessing and advising upon diverse set of regulation governing content/integrity issues (including Online Safety Act, Digital Services Act, Online Safety Media Regulation Act and ideally also in the Middle East/ Africa region), across a range of topics
  • Ireland or UK qualified lawyer
  • Experience advising on measures at scale and operational efficiency
Locations
Data Center
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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