Legal Counsel, Audiobook Licensing

Spotify•Miami, FL

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Legal Counsel with strong audiobook licensing experience to join our Legal Licensing & BD Team. As legal counsel in our legal audiobook licensing team you will work closely with our publisher partnership team on the business side, negotiating and drafting audiobook licenses with major and independent book publishers and providing day-to-day legal input on business and strategy related to Spotify’s audiobook initiative. Our work is cutting edge, fast-paced and always evolving, so we are looking for an innovative, dynamic and proactive problem-solver to join our team.

Requirements

US or UK qualified lawyer with 7+ years of relevant law firm and/or in-house counsel transactional experience.
Excellent legal analytical skills and strong working knowledge of copyright law and legal issues relating to the audiobook space, including experience negotiating and drafting complex content licensing agreements between digital services and book publishers.
Strong commercial acumen with a practical, business-oriented approach to problem-solving and ability to effectively counsel business teams by providing pragmatic, commercial and timely advice.
Ability to be nimble and work in a fast-paced environment with changing needs and demanding timelines.
An excellent communicator who excels at relationship building and expectation management.
You have strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
You are a self-starter with a proven track record of executing complex projects and have solid organizational and project management skills.
You embody Spotify’s values (Innovative, Collaborative, Sincere, Passionate, Playful) and demonstrate a Growth Mindset.
You are passionate about audiobooks and invested in contributing to the growth and success of authors and the format at large on our platform.

Nice To Haves

Spanish language proficiency welcome.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic, tactical legal advice related to audiobook rights in a creative, business-centric way.
Support and advise our publisher-facing and author teams on legal audiobook licensing matters.
Structure, draft, and negotiate audiobook license agreements.
Serve as a subject matter expert on the legal obligations related to audiobook content.
Collaborate with internal legal and product teams to assess new audiobook initiatives and innovations in relation to contractual obligations with external publishing partners
Act as the day-to-day legal support for Spotify’s commercial relationship with top book publishers globally!