Legal Counsel - Advertising

Spotify’s Legal team is growing. We’re facing innovative challenges that mirror the ground-breaking industry and product at the heart of our company. As we’ve expanded into more than 184 countries and our company has grown tremendously, we find ourselves facing new and interesting legal issues every day.

The Advertising and Monetizations Legal Group supports the advertising business unit at Spotify. As Legal Counsel in this group you will partner with and provide guidance to our advertising team members, advise colleagues on agreements with advertisers, publishers, and third party vendors, and support the expansion of Spotify’s advertising technology platforms across global markets.

Our work is groundbreaking, progressive, and always evolving, so it will be up to you to continuously assess and advise the teams on legal issues using a creative and pragmatic approach.

What You'll Do

• Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them to achieve their objectives
• Manage contract drafting, review and negotiation across a range of commercial agreements with external partners and collaborate with key internal partners to bring those agreements to execution
• Synthesize regulatory issues and legal implications that may impact Spotify’s evolving advertising technology stack and provide compliance guidance to business partners and those within the team
• Provide effective and commercially-focused product counseling in relation to new product features, and UX copy
• Provide subject matter expertise within the legal team for international advertising matters, working alongside legal colleagues supporting the advertising business to prepare guidance materials and deliver training sessions aimed at achieving scalability and greater efficiencies
• Work closely with other key partners in the Finance, Product and Engineering teams to provide comprehensive support to Spotify’s advertising business

Who You Are

• Qualified to practice law or act as a Registered In House Counsel in either California or New York
• 5+ years of post-qualification experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
• Existing in-house experience is preferable but not essential
• Experience working in the advertising ecosystem as an external counsel advising advertisers, publishers, and technology platforms; and/or in the legal department of a large, scaled business with a focus on advertising matters
• A robust understanding of the legal principles in the advertising sector, including the privacy requirements, regulatory developments and consumer protection laws
• Strong working knowledge and experience working with product counseling, intellectual property, and legal issues relating to digital products, technology, privacy, consumer protection, and media
• Experience in a consumer-facing technology organization with a significant digital advertising business is a plus
• Ability to consistently deliver clear, concise, and pragmatic advice
• Exhibit proven ability to make risk-based decisions and develop innovative and business-focused solutions to commercial challenges and regulatory developments
• Comfortable balancing a varied body of work, moving at pace, and across areas with high ambiguity
• Exhibit a proven willingness to dig into details of projects and work well as part of a team — both with other lawyers and with non-legal partners
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an absolute commitment to professionalism and collegiality.
• Full working proficiency in English is crucial; other languages are a plus

Where You'll Be

• Hybrid role based in either our New York or Los Angeles offices (average 2-3 days a week in office required)

The United States base range for this position is $158,582-$226,546, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.