Legal Counsel, Advertising

Spotify

Location
California-Los Angeles
Description
<div id="jobDescriptionText" class="jobsearch-jobDescriptionText jobsearch-JobComponent-description css-1axw7mm eu4oa1w0"><div> <div> <div> <ul> <div> <div> <div> Global Affairs </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> Legal Affairs </div> </div> </div> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> 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 170 markets…and counting! We aim to revolutionize the way people consume music and podcasts, and we’ll need some very talented people to help us to achieve our mission. </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> Location</p> <div> Los Angeles </div> </div> <div> <p>Job type</p> <div> Permanent </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> The Products and Services Legal Group supports a broad range of functions and teams within the company, including our R&amp;D, Premium, Payments, Ad Sales, and Marketing organizations. As a lawyer within the Products and Services Legal Group at Spotify, you will partner with and provide guidance to our advertising team and support the expansion of Spotify’s advertising business across various markets around the world.. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> 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. </div> <div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> What You'll Do:</p> <ul> <li> You will primarily partner with and provide legal guidance to the advertising business at Spotify. You will advise colleagues on agreements with advertisers, publishers, third party vendors. You will also support compliance with regulatory requirements, and expansion of Spotify’s advertising technology platforms (including the Spotify Audience Network and Ad Studio).</li> <li> Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them to achieve their objectives.</li> <li> Collaborate with key internal partners to draft and negotiate commercial agreements with external partners.</li> <li> Identify the regulatory and legal implications of Spotify’s evolving advertising technology stack.</li> <li> Synthesize regulatory issues that may impact the digital advertising ecosystem and provide compliance guidance to business partners and others within the legal team.</li> <li> Provide effective and commercially focused product counseling in relation to new product features, and UX copy.</li> <li> 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.</li> <li> Work closely with other key partners in the Finance, Product and Engineering teams to provide comprehensive support to Spotify’s advertising business.</li> <div> <br> </div> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> Who You Are: </p> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li> 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.</li> <li> You have a robust understanding of the legal principles in the advertising sector, including the privacy requirements, regulatory developments and consumer protection laws.</li> <li> 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.</li> <li> You consistently deliver clear, concise, practical and pragmatic advice, and a proven track record to make risk-based decisions and to develop innovative and business-focused solutions to regulatory challenges and developments.</li> <li> You are comfortable working at pace and in areas where there is no perfect answer and might be highly ambiguous, have a proven 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.</li> <li> You have excellent interpersonal skills with a dedication to professionalism and collegiality.</li> <div> <br> </div> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> Where you'll be</p> <ul> <li> You will be based in either New York or Los Angeles </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>Our global benefits</p> </div> <div> <div> Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse. </div> </div> <div> <div> Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success. </div> </div> <div> <div> Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents. </div> </div> <div> <div> All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub. </div> </div> <div> <div> Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs. </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> Learn about life at Spotify</p> </div> <div> <div> 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. </div> <div></div> <div> <br> Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens. </div> <div></div> <div> <br> Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service. </div> </div> </div> </div></div>
Posted
Updated
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Practice Areas
Corporate, Intellectual Property
Specialties
Advertising
Experience
5+ years
Employer Type
In-House