Senior Principal, Commercial Legal AI

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Austin, TX +2

This role leads the implementation and adoption of AI agents for commercial contracts processes, aiming for significant efficiency gains and ensuring legal integrity and compliance. It involves configuring playbooks, integrating solutions, designing AI guardrails, and developing reusable frameworks for broader legal domains, influencing the overall Legal AI strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive adoption across all commercial verticals, identifying work that can be transformed with existing solutions or designing new builds to fill current gaps
  2. Configure playbooks, integrate our central solutions (Ivo/Contracts Hub), and translate internal (Meta policies, risk postures) and external requirements (e.g., FTC Order, GDPR, SOX) into AI guardrails, ensuring all AI outputs are legally sound, compliant, and auditable
  3. While initially focused on commercial contracts to deliver efficiency gains, the role is structured for durability, potentially providing critical partnership on broader AI frameworks across adjacent legal domains (i.e., Corporate Legal, Compliance, eDiscovery, IP)
  4. Owning the technical strategy and build path for a highly customized system that weaves third-party AI solutions into Meta’s homegrown Contracts intelligence platform
  5. Designing AI guardrails and controls to ensure the systems are compliant, low-risk, and auditable, staying ahead of global AI regulatory landscapes (e.g., EU AI Act, U.S. state-level laws)

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years experience with commercial contracts
  • 3+ years experience with legal tech implementation
  • AI in Legal: hands-on experience with GenAI and AI models/tools
  • Demonstrated experience solving problems at the platform level
  • Governance & Risk Fluency
  • Global AI Regulatory Awareness
  • Vendor & Platform Management
  • Cross-functional experience
  • Experience with hands-on configuring GenAI for contract review, drafting, and negotiation
  • Prompt engineering
  • evals
  • model risk review
  • Juris Doctor (JD) degree

Nice to have

  • Adjacent legal domain fluency (privacy, IP, employment, litigation ops)
  • Prior exposure to adjacent legal domains (eDiscovery, product counsel, employment, IP, regulatory)
  • Experience with enterprise legal AI platforms (e.g., Harvey, Ironclad, IVO, Legora, or similar)
  • MCP / agent orchestration
  • Lean / Six Sigma
  • high-growth tech environments

What the JD emphasized

  • AI agents
  • commercial contracts
  • efficiency gains
  • legal integrity & compliance
  • AI guardrails
  • global AI regulatory landscapes
  • AI governance
  • commercial risk controls
  • EU AI Act
  • U.S. state AI laws
  • AI-related contractual obligations

Other signals

  • AI agents for commercial contracts
  • efficiency gains
  • legal integrity & compliance
  • AI guardrails
  • platform strategy