Legal Counsel

Organization: Spotify
Location: New York, NY
Date Posted: 09/03/2025

The Position
Spotify’s Legal team is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced Legal Counsel, Platform Liability & Enforcement. As Legal Counsel, you will help supervise Spotify’s legal takedown practices and policies and provide legal support for the teams that develop, implement, and support Spotify’s content policies. You’ll also work directly to resolve claims related to these policies and help build out processes for scale. Your experience making risk-based assessments and proactively finding solutions to complex problems will be crucial.

We’re facing innovative challenges that mirror the groundbreaking industry and product at the heart of our company. As we’ve expanded into more than 184 countries, we face new and interesting legal issues every day.

What You’ll Do
Advise on Spotify’s state and global compliance with online safety frameworks and safe harbor laws (e.g., CDA Section 230, Digital Services Act, Marco Civil).

Support managing Spotify’s legal takedown process, including by providing legal guidance on the handling of user notices and government-issued takedown requests.

Provide legal advice across Spotify on platform liability, including issue-spotting and strategizing solutions for new products.

Work with internal and external counsel and government affairs experts to track evolving legal requirements across the territories where Spotify operates.

Collaborate with Product and Trust & Safety teams to assess and implement online safety features, including tools aimed at addressing harmful or unlawful content.

Work on proactive enforcement efforts regarding potential abuse of the Spotify platform.

Provide legal support for litigations and press inquiries arising out of content takedown issues.

Work with operations teams within and outside the legal team to develop efficient, scalable practices around legal takedown requests.

Perform rotational work as business requires.

Who You Are
Law degree (or equivalent) and qualified to practice law as in-house counsel in the State of New York.

5+ years of experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department.

Deep understanding of intermediary liability frameworks, with a preference for experience litigating cases involving intermediary liability.

Proven expertise in content-related legal issues.

Experience assessing and advising on a broad set of legal standards, even when those standards are new to you.

Experience in partnering with global stakeholders.

A passion for legal problems; you can explain legal concepts to non-lawyers.

A problem solver who stays calm when problems come your way.

A builder; you can work collaboratively (especially with non-lawyers) on finding practical, implementable tools and operational solutions.

Self-motivated and can identify and complete work to be done without being instructed.

A multi-tasker who can triage to make sure the right matters get your attention.

Willing to really dig deep on projects.

You work well as part of a team—both with other lawyers and with non-legal stakeholders.

Comfortable incorporating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini) into your day-to-day work to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalable legal support.

Where You’ll Be
This role is based in New York, New York.

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but this role allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 2-3 times per week.

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The Benefits
The United States base range for this position is $167,992-$239,989 plus equity.

The benefits available for this position include:

Health insurance

Six month paid parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

23 paid days off

13 paid flexible holidays

Our global benefits include:

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 for all new parents.