Legal Counsel - Advertising

At Spotify, we’ve connected millions of people to their favorite songs and created a service that people use to discover and enjoy the music and podcasts they love. We’ve launched in 184 markets… and counting! We aim to revolutionize the way people consume music and podcasts, and we’ll need some very skilled people to help us to achieve our mission.

The Advertising and Monetizations Legal Group supports the advertising business unit at Spotify. As a lawyer within the group, you will partner with and provide guidance to our advertising team members and support the expansion of Spotify’s advertising business across various markets around the world. Our work is groundbreaking, revolutionary 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 You will primarily partner with and provide legal guidance to the advertising business at Spotify. You will advise colleagues on agreements with advertisers, publishers, advertising technology platforms, and third party vendors. You will also support compliance with regulatory requirements as Spotify’s advertising business expands.

Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them to achieve their objectives. Support automated and programmatic channel work streams across our self-service advertising platform and advertising exchange. Manage contract drafting, review and negotiation across a range of commercial agreements with external partners and collaborate with key internal collaborators 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 others within the legal team. Provide effective and commercially focused product counseling in relation to new product features, and UX copy. Act as a subject matter expert within the legal team for international advertising matters, working alongside other legal team members 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 You are qualified to practice law or act as a Registered In House Counsel in either California or New York. You have at least 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. You have experience of 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. You have 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 programmatic advertising, digital products, technology, privacy, consumer protection, and media. Experience in a consumer-facing technology organization with a significant digital advertising business is a plus. You consistently deliver clear, concise, practical and pragmatic advice, and a proven ability to make risk-based decisions and to develop innovative and business-focused solutions to commercial challenges and regulatory developments.

You are comfortable balancing a varied body of work, moving at pace, and in areas where there is no perfect answer and might be highly ambiguous, have a demonstrated willingness to dig in on the details of projects and work well as part of a team — both with other lawyers and with non-legal partners. You have excellent interpersonal skills with an absolute commitment to professionalism and collegiality. Fluency in English is essential, other languages a plus.

Where You'll Be This role is based in New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA. We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

We ask that you come in 2-3 times per week.