Legal Intern, Spotify
Juris Doctorate, 2025 Summer Internship
The United States hourly rate for this position is $44 USD and is overtime eligible
3 days a week in office
Commercial music streaming service
Be an early applicant
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
The United States hourly rate for this position is $44 USD and is overtime eligible
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
- You are pursuing a Juris Doctorate
- You have a graduation year date of 2025 or 2026
- You currently have valid work authorization to work in the country in which this role is based that will extend from June to August 2025
- You are available from June 9th to August 15th, 2025 to participate in the summer internship
- You have an interest in corporate and commercial law, including privacy, copyright, defamation, and related areas of law, and legal trends impacting the music, podcast, and digital streaming industries
- You are proficient in English, both verbally and in writing
- You have excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- You have great written and oral communication skills and outstanding attention to detail
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an enthusiastic Legal Intern to join our legal department for the summer
- We support and guide the organization in how to use the law to advance business interests, protect our company’s rights, and ensure legal and regulatory compliance
- You’ll help us on our mission to balance legal exposure and opportunity, make sure we have necessary legal rights to content, and enable Spotify to build products and services that users trust and love while protecting our reputation and values
- Collaborate with lawyers across the legal department, including but not limited to the original content, privacy, and litigation teams, to provide support on key legal matters
- Assist in drafting agreements, deal summaries, memos, and other legal documents
- Conduct legal research
Application process
- Our paid summer internships last for approximately 10 weeks and start at the beginning of June. The last day to apply is February 6th 2025 at 12 PM ET
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.
Freddie
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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