Job Number:
HC-03836
Date Posted:
March 23, 2026
Position Title:
Legal Counsel Advertising
Party:
N/A
Office Code:
Office/Company:
Spotify
Reports To:
Location:
New York, NY | Los Angeles, CA
Contact:
Salary:
$170,366 – $243,380
Primary Role
Secondary Role:
Job Type:
Full Time
Description:
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.Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them achieve their objectives. Support automated and programmatic channel work streams across our self-service advertising platform and advertising exchange.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.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them 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.
Qualifications:
• 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.
• You have 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.
• You have a robust understanding of the legal principles in the advertising sector, including privacy requirements, regulatory developments, and consumer protection laws.
• Strong working knowledge and experience with product counseling, intellectual property, and legal issues relating to programmatic advertising, digital products, technology, privacy, consumer protection, and media.
Instructions:
See employer site for application details.
Other:
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.
