Description
As Legal Counsel, Platform Liability & Enforcement at Spotify, 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 will 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.
Your responsibilities will include advising on Spotify's global compliance with platform liability frameworks and content safe harbor laws, supporting managing Spotify's legal takedown process, providing legal advice across Spotify on platform liability, and working with internal and external counsel and government affairs experts to track evolving legal requirements across the territories where Spotify operates.
You will also counsel the teams responsible for building, managing, and implementing Spotify's content policies, including the Trust & Safety team and the Content Protection team, and work on proactive enforcement efforts regarding potential abuse of the Spotify platform.
In addition, you will provide legal support for litigations and press inquiries arising out of content takedown issues, and work with operations teams within and outside the legal team to develop efficient, scalable practices around legal takedown requests.
This role requires a law degree (or equivalent) and 5+ years of experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department. You should have a deep understanding of intermediary liability frameworks, proven expertise in copyright law and other content-related legal issues, and experience assessing and advising on a broad set of legal standards.
You should also be able to explain legal concepts to non-lawyers, stay calm when problems come your way, and work collaboratively with non-lawyers on finding practical, implementable tools and operational solutions.