• Help supervise Spotify's legal takedown practices and policies and provide legal support for the teams that develop, implement, and support content policies.
• Work directly to resolve claims related to these policies and help build out processes for scale.
• Join a Legal team facing innovative challenges that mirror the ground-breaking industry and product at the heart of the company, operating across 184+ countries.
📋 Job Requirements
• Hold a law degree or equivalent.
• Have 5+ years of experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Have a deep understanding of intermediary liability frameworks.
• Have proven expertise in copyright law and other content-related legal issues.
• Have experience assessing and advising on a broad set of legal standards, even when those standards are new to you.
• Have experience partnering with global stakeholders.
• Be able to explain legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.
• Be a problem solver who stays calm when issues arise.
• Be self-motivated and able to identify and complete work without being instructed.
• Be able to triage and prioritise effectively across multiple matters.
• Work well as part of a team with both lawyers and non-legal stakeholders.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Have experience litigating cases involving intermediary liability.
• Have experience with the Digital Services Act, DMCA, or Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
• Have experience with trust and safety or content moderation legal frameworks.
• Have experience building scalable legal operations processes.
• Have experience advising on platform liability issues for new product launches.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Advise on Spotify's global compliance with platform liability frameworks and content safe harbour laws such as the Digital Services Act, DMCA, and Section 230.
• Support managing Spotify's legal takedown process across content types and all types of legal issues including intellectual property and speech-based offences.
• Provide legal advice across Spotify on platform liability, including issue-spotting and strategising solutions for new products.
• Work with internal and external counsel and government affairs experts to track evolving legal requirements across Spotify's territories.
• Counsel the teams responsible for building, managing, and implementing content policies, including Trust & Safety and Content Protection.
• 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.
About Spotify
😃 What Spotify offers
• Access extensive learning opportunities through Spotify's dedicated team, GreenHouse.
• Receive flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in Spotify's success.
• Take six months of global parental leave for all new parents.
• Use All The Feels, the employee assistance programme and self-care hub.
• Swap public holidays flexibly according to your values and beliefs.
💖 What makes Spotify unique
Spotify's Legal team supports a company operating in more than 184 countries, facing new and interesting legal issues every day as the company and its products continue to grow. The Platform Liability & Enforcement team supervises legal takedown practices, content policies, and compliance with platform liability frameworks globally. Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
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