Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commerce and subscriptions sit at the centre of how many SaaS businesses monetise, retain customers, and iterate on product packaging. This Legal Counsel role is featured because it operates directly where product design meets regulated consumer purchasing, covering checkout, pricing presentation, and the lifecycle of paid access. Within a subscription-led digital business, legal input here shapes how quickly teams can responsibly ship changes without creating downstream compliance or dispute risk.
For a SaaS legal career, the role builds durable exposure to recurring revenue mechanics such as add-ons, one-time purchases, and partner channels, alongside the practical realities of payments and customer support operations. The remit also signals work that scales, translating recurring legal questions into templates, playbooks, and training that help product and commercial teams self-serve. That combination tends to be highly portable across SaaS companies refining monetisation, billing, and customer experience.
This position suits a counsel who prefers close partnership with product, engineering, and design, and who communicates clearly with non-legal stakeholders. It will likely appeal to someone comfortable balancing commercial goals with consumer and payments regulation, and who enjoys moving between drafting agreements and advising on user-facing flows and terms.
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
You’ll join Spotify’s Commerce & Subscriptions Legal team, part of the broader Products and Services Legal team, supporting a fast-moving part of the business focused on how users purchase, manage, and experience paid offerings. This team partners closely with product, engineering, design, and business stakeholders to enable innovative e-commerce experiences while managing legal risk in a thoughtful, pragmatic way.
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What You'll Do
- Provide practical, commercially-focused legal advice to product managers, engineers, designers, and business partners building and scaling e-commerce products and services.
- Support the development of new monetisation models including subscription add-ons, one-time purchases, and affiliate sales channels
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements with external partners
- Advise on consumer-facing product features, including UX flows, pricing structures, and terms of service to ensure compliance with applicable laws
- Partner with cross-functional teams exploring new ways to grow Spotify’s commerce and subscriptions offerings
- Collaborate closely with other Legal teams to deliver consistent, joined-up legal guidance across products and services
- Build a strong understanding of Spotify’s subscriptions business, payments systems, and customer support operations
Contribute to scalable legal resources such as playbooks, templates, and training materials to support a growing business
Who You Are
- You are qualified to practice law in the UK or an EU member state with 4+ years of relevant experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- You have experience advising on e-commerce, digital consumer transactions and/or subscription-based products
- You're well-versed in online commerce law, including consumer protection and payments regulation and understand digital content regulations and data privacy frameworks
- You communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal audiences
- You are comfortable working across a variety of legal topics and enjoy learning new areas of the business. You are comfortable with ambiguity and change
- You build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across teams
- You bring sound judgment and a pragmatic approach to balancing legal risk with business opportunity
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London
- 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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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.
