Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Spotify’s advertising and monetization work sits at the intersection of subscription SaaS economics and a scaled ad tech ecosystem. This Legal Counsel role is notable because it supports a self service advertising platform and advertising exchange, where product decisions, commercial terms, and regulatory constraints converge across multiple markets.
For a SaaS legal career, the remit offers durable exposure to how revenue infrastructure is built and governed. Advising on agreements with advertisers, publishers, ad tech platforms, and vendors develops pattern recognition across recurring commercial structures, platform risk allocation, and partner dependencies. The emphasis on programmatic and automated channels also reflects a broader SaaS trend toward scalable, repeatable go to market motions that require legal input designed for volume rather than one off negotiation.
This role tends to suit counsel who prefers being embedded with business, product, and engineering stakeholders rather than operating as a purely reactive reviewer. It will fit someone comfortable translating evolving privacy and consumer protection expectations into practical guidance, and who enjoys balancing ambiguity with clear risk based recommendations in a global, multi stakeholder environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
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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.
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The United States base range for this position is $170,366 - $243,380 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.
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.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
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.
