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Associate General Counsel, Reality Labs — Hardware Regulatory Readiness

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Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA)$202k - $274kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior legal role focusing on hardware regulatory readiness for Meta Reality Labs, advising cross-functional teams on regulatory obligations across wearables, VR, and app stores, and coordinating with central teams on AI-related regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the central legal owner for Meta's emerging hardware regulatory obligations across wearables, VR, App Stores, coordinating readiness across the full product lifecycle
  • Advise product, engineering, supply chain, packaging, and business teams on live regulatory obligations, including EU battery replaceability, PFAS-free packaging, and device and product disclosures
  • Analyze products, policies, and initiatives to provide practical legal risk-mitigation strategies for hardware devices across multiple jurisdictions, including evaluating the impact of emerging device and environmental regulations, regulatory guidance, and enforcement actions
  • Build and maintain the regulatory readiness framework and processes to track, prioritize, and operationalize emerging hardware obligations ahead of enforcement deadlines
  • Work cross-functionally with attorneys from other legal teams such as privacy, regulatory, commercial, product, and litigation, and partner with policy, compliance, and outside counsel
  • Develop and maintain subject-matter expertise on hardware and device regulatory developments across wearables, VR/AR, and consumer electronics

Qualifications

  • J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar
  • 8+ years of legal experience, including at a law firm or in-house (applicable regulatory, product counseling, or hardware/consumer-product experience)
  • Experience advising on regulatory compliance while managing multiple projects at once in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
  • Experience identifying and resolving complex legal or regulatory issues and communicating legal guidance to cross-functional stakeholders in writing and verbally

Skills

Required:Regulatory risk assessmentCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced in posting (not enumerated in excerpt)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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