Legal Counsel - Commerce & Subscriptions

About The Role

You’ll join Spotify’s Commerce & Subscriptions Legal team, part of the broader Products and Services Legal team, supporting a fast-moving part of the business focused on how users purchase, manage, and experience paid offerings. This team partners closely with product, engineering, design, and business stakeholders to enable innovative e-commerce experiences while managing legal risk in a thoughtful, pragmatic way.

What You'll Do

• Provide practical, commercially-focused legal advice to product managers, engineers, designers, and business partners building and scaling e-commerce products and services.

• Support the development of new monetisation models including subscription add-ons, one-time purchases, and affiliate sales channels

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements with external partners

• Advise on consumer-facing product features, including UX flows, pricing structures, and terms of service to ensure compliance with applicable laws

• Partner with cross-functional teams exploring new ways to grow Spotify’s commerce and subscriptions offerings

• Collaborate closely with other Legal teams to deliver consistent, joined-up legal guidance across products and services

• Build a strong understanding of Spotify’s subscriptions business, payments systems, and customer support operations Contribute to scalable legal resources such as playbooks, templates, and training materials to support a growing business

Who You Are

• You are qualified to practice law in the UK or an EU member state with 4+ years of relevant experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department

• You have experience advising on e-commerce, digital consumer transactions and/or subscription-based products

• You're well-versed in online commerce law, including consumer protection and payments regulation and understand digital content regulations and data privacy frameworks

• You communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal audiences

• You are comfortable working across a variety of legal topics and enjoy learning new areas of the business. You are comfortable with ambiguity and change

• You build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across teams

• You bring sound judgment and a pragmatic approach to balancing legal risk with business opportunity

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London

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

Additional information

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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