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SpotifySpotifyNew York, NY

Legal Counsel - Product

Provides legal counsel to Spotify's product and business teams on global issues including AI regulations, privacy, IP, and consumer protection. Partners throughout product development, drafts contracts, and ensures compliance across markets. Requires 5+ years experience and JD/LLM.

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Hybrid5+ YOELegal

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Partner with the product and business teams at Spotify throughout all stages of product development, including ideation, design, testing and launch
  • Advise on new and innovative products, features and formats across all markets where Spotify is available, including AI systems
  • Provide legal guidance on AI-specific regulation (such as the EU AI Act) and other global regulations, including laws regarding consumer protection, privacy and data protection, content, intellectual property, online safety, minor protection, and other legal issues relevant to digital products
  • Conduct legal reviews in connection with expansion into new markets and ensure our products comply with legal developments in existing markets, including evolving standards for AI transparency and safety
  • Draft and negotiate contracts, including for third-party software and technology procurement as necessary to support the development of new features and formats
  • Establish and maintain all product-related legal documentation, such as terms of service, platform policies and consumer and creator messaging
  • Maintain a proficient understanding of international legal and policy developments that may affect Spotify’s business
  • Improve our standard form agreements and legal processes that help us scale globally with a consistent but locally-relevant approach

Who You Are

  • J.D., LL.M. or equivalent, with admission to at least one bar (or qualification for registered in-house counsel in New York or Sweden)
  • 5+ years of relevant experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
  • Experienced in product counseling for technology products
  • Excited about new technologies, in particular AI-based systems
  • Strong working knowledge of legal issues relating to digital products, technology, privacy, intellectual property, content and platform liability, consumer protection, media and AI
  • Strong track record of working with a wide range of commercial agreements
  • Solutions oriented and self-motivated, with a willingness to dig into the details of projects
  • Highly collaborative and work well with both legal and non-legal stakeholders
  • Take a practical, business-oriented approach to problem-solving and provide pragmatic, commercial and timely advice
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • Experience partnering with global stakeholders, including external counsel

Skills

Ai RegulationsEu Ai ActPrivacy LawData ProtectionIntellectual PropertyConsumer ProtectionCommercial ContractsTerms Of ServicePlatform PoliciesProduct Counseling

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