Legal Counsel, Spotify
Advertising
$158.6-226.5k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$158.6-226.5k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- Qualified to practice law or act as a Registered In House Counsel in either California or New York
- 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
- 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
- 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 digital products, technology, privacy, consumer protection, and media
- Experience in a consumer-facing technology organization with a significant digital advertising business is a plus
- Ability to consistently deliver clear, concise, and pragmatic advice
- Exhibit proven ability to make risk-based decisions and develop innovative and business-focused solutions to commercial challenges and regulatory developments
- Comfortable balancing a varied body of work, moving at pace, and across areas with high ambiguity
- Exhibit a proven willingness to dig into details of projects and work well as part of a team — both with other lawyers and with non-legal partners
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an absolute commitment to professionalism and collegiality
- Full working proficiency in English is crucial; other languages are a plus
What the job involves
- The Advertising and Monetization Legal Team supports the advertising business unit at Spotify
- As Legal Counsel in this team you will partner with and provide guidance to our advertising team members, advise colleagues on agreements with advertisers, publishers, and third party vendors, and support the expansion of Spotify’s advertising technology platforms across global markets
- 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
- Partner with our advertising business to understand their priorities and help them to achieve their objectives
- Manage contract drafting, review and negotiation across a range of commercial agreements with external partners and collaborate with key internal partners 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 those within the team
- Provide effective and commercially-focused product counseling in relation to new product features, and UX copy
- Provide subject matter expertise within the legal team for international advertising matters, working alongside legal colleagues 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
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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