Legal Counsel - Platform Liability
SpotifyLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted May 8, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Spotify is a global audio streaming platform launched in 2008, offering over 70 million tracks for free or with premium features like offline listening and ad-free experience. As the most popular music streaming service with 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers across 178 markets, Spotify empowers artists to earn from their work while providing fans unparalleled access to diverse music.
Job 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.
Requirements
- Law degree (or equivalent)
- 5+ years of experience working in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Deep understanding of intermediary liability frameworks
- Proven expertise in copyright law and other content-related legal issues
- Experience assessing and advising on a broad set of legal standards
- 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
- You’re willing to really dig deep on projects
- You work well as part of a team — both with other lawyers and with non-legal stakeholders