Meta has imposed new job cuts within its Risk organisation, with chief compliance officer Michel Protti citing automation and standardised compliance workflows as reasons for eliminating select teams and roles.
Meta has issued another round of job cuts within its Risk organisation, according to an internal memo sent to employees by Michel Protti, the company’s chief compliance and privacy officer of product. The communication informed staff that the company is eliminating select roles as part of a structural shift toward automated compliance systems and consolidated governance processes.
What Michel Protti wrote
In the memo, Protti said Meta’s investment in internal compliance technology has changed the staffing requirements inside the Risk function. He wrote that Meta has built “more global technical controls” and has “made significant progress in how we approach risk management and 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.
He then linked the job cuts directly to these changes:
“As a result, we don’t need as many roles in some areas as we once did.”
Teams and functions affected
According to the memo, role reductions will affect Product Risk Program Management, Shared Services, and Global Security & Privacy (GSP) teams. Meta is also consolidating work in London and merging the GSP group with Regulatory Readiness and the Data Protection Officer’s office under a new structure called Regulatory Compliance Programs.
Protti said the decision is tied to process maturity, not individual performance, and confirmed transition support for impacted staff.
This is the latest restructuring inside Meta in the same week the company cut roles in its Superintelligence Labs division. While the company is eliminating positions in traditional compliance and support areas, Meta has said it will continue to hire for AI-focused and specialised engineering roles.
Protti noted that automation will not fully replace humans in all risk functions, stating that “human judgment will always play a crucial role in assessing novel and complex issues.” He described the move as a “natural next step” in aligning compliance work with Meta’s long-term operating model.
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