It follows Meta laying off 600 people in its superintelligence division on Wednesday.
Meta this week told staff in its risk division that a number of their roles were being eliminated because of improvements in the company’s internal technology, Business Insider has learned.
Meta’s chief compliance and privacy officer of product, Michel Protti, informed workers in the risk org on Wednesday that it has been moving away from manual reviews to more automated processes, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.
“As a result, we don’t need as many roles in some areas as we once did,” he wrote, without disclosing the number of affected roles.
Protti said Meta is making the changes as it has invested in “building more global technical controls” over the past few years, and has made “significant progress” in its approach to risk management and compliance. Meta’s risk org is tasked with ensuring the company’s regulatory and policy compliance.
“By moving from bespoke, manual reviews to a more consistent and automated process, we’ve been able to deliver more accurate and reliable compliance outcomes across Meta,” Protti wrote. “This standardization means that many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology, freeing our teams to focus on the most complex and high-impact challenges.”
Meta spokesperson Thomas Richards confirmed the risk org job cuts and internal memo, adding that the company routinely makes organizational changes and is restructuring to “reflect the maturity of our program and innovate faster while maintaining high compliance standards.”
As part of the reorg, Meta is reducing roles in its Product Risk Program Manager, Shared Services, and Global Security & Privacy teams (GSP), per the memo. It is merging the GSP team and integrating it with the Reg Readiness division and the data protection officer’s team, and renaming the group Regulatory Compliance Programs. It’s also consolidating areas of work in London.
The cuts come as Meta also laid off 600 employees from its Superintelligence Labs division on Wednesday. In an internal memo, which was seen by Business Insider, Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, said Meta would “continue to hire industry-leading Al-native talent” and that its goal is to enable Meta Superintelligence Labs to move faster.
The company has also begun automating other areas of its business, including its hiring process, by conducting AI-assisted interviews and using AI to assess coding skills. Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said he expects that sometime this year, the company will have an AI agent that can carry out the work of a midlevel engineer.
Meta is not the only Big Tech firm talking about cutting jobs as a result of advances in AI or automating tasks. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in June that as it rolls out more generative AI and agents, it will lead to “fewer people doing some of the jobs being done today.”
Read the full memo below:
