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Job Opening at Facebook India for Associate General Counsel

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Facebook seeks a highly skilled, agile and collaborative professional, to serve as Associate General Counsel supporting its growing efforts to create innovative products and features on the Facebook Platform, including for Facebook’s payments and Ecommerce initiatives.

In this role, you will work hand-in-hand with Facebook’s business and product groups to lay the groundwork for Facebook’s commercial relationships in India and act as a vital link and resource for your legal counterparts elsewhere in the world. You will be responsible for drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contracts and advising clients on the various legal risks, business strategies and other issues related to commercial transactions and general operations.

This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and work at the forefront of helping to deliver new payment and ecommerce experiences around the world. This is a full-time position located in our Mumbai office.


Associate General Counsel, Commercial Responsibilities Responsibilities
  • Draft, negotiate and advise on complex, multifaceted agreements enabling Facebook’s payments, ecommerce, platform, and other new and emerging products.
  • Provide strategic legal and business advice to facilitate long-term relationships with key partners.
  • Manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
  • Instruct and manage outside counsel, as needed.
  • Willingness and flexibility to travel domestically and internationally.

Minimum Qualifications

  • LLB (or foreign equivalent) and excellent academic credentials.
  • 12+ years of PQE with 4+ years of payments experience. In-house experience with payments, commerce, or platform matters in the context of internet or technology companies and/or relevant law firm work.
  • Experience drafting complex strategic technology and/or payments transactions and leading high visibility negotiations, including in-person.
  • Experience managing high deal volume on deadlines with minimal supervision.
  • Experience working cross-functionally and using strategic thinking to achieve business objectives.
  • Sound legal judgment and experience solving problems in a practical manner.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with data privacy laws.
  • Experience managing outside counsel.
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we’re building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we’re just getting started.
Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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