Associate General Counsel, Ads Product

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We’re looking for a highly motivated, technically savvy, and pragmatic attorney to join our Ads Legal team as Associate General Counsel, Ads Product. This role will provide legal guidance to our Ads Product and Engineering teams on a wide range of initiatives while collaborating with other partners across the company, including our commercial legal, ads policy, sales, privacy, and regulatory teams. This is an opportunity for an attorney who is mission-focused, proactive, and driven to make a big impact on Reddit’s rapidly growing ads business.

Location: Remote – United States (NYC/SF preferred but not required)

What You’ll Do:

• Enable Product Growth: Leverage a deep understanding of technical product operation and business strategy to advise teams building products and features in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.
• Work Autonomously: Serve as principal legal advisor to various ads product areas, and develop subject-matter expertise to lead cross-product initiatives.
• Guide Strategy: Develop principles and frameworks that will help teams design products for a changing regulatory environment.
• Counsel Emerging Technologies: Advise on cutting-edge technology, including AI-driven features, data-clean-room solutions, and advanced machine learning.
• Engage Across Functions: Work closely with product managers, engineers, business partners, and other functions and all levels of the company.
• Data & Privacy Governance: Ensure that products and features comply with evolving global privacy and data laws (GDPR, ePrivacy, U.S. State Laws) and internal policies.

What We’re Looking For:

• Advertising Expertise: 10+ years of legal experience with a significant focus on online advertising. You understand the digital ads business and the information systems and data flows that support it. Experience as ads product counsel at a UGC platform is a plus.
• Good Team Member: A nimble, creative thinker with lots of positive energy, superior organizational skills, a growth mindset, strong attention to detail, a sense of humor, and a team-first attitude.
• Technical Understanding: Deep knowledge of technical ads infrastructure and emerging trends. Experience advising AI-feature development in ads is a plus.
• Problem Solver: A "get-to-yes" mindset. Enthusiastic collaboration with the business to find workable solutions and drive risk-based decisionmaking.
• Clear, Concise Communication: Someone who can process information quickly, confidently exercise judgment in a timely fashion, and succinctly summarize complex legal concepts in writing or in conversation.
• Project Management: Ability to lead cross-functional groups and drive successful, timely outcomes in projects while balancing other tasks and responsibilities.
• Mastery of the Regulatory Landscape: Strong working knowledge of privacy laws and regulations, including the GDPR, U.S. State Privacy Laws, and self-regulatory regimes (IAB, NAI), as well as other statutory regimes that impact ads platforms (e.g., DSA, the EU AI Act).
• Qualifications: JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (or ability to register as in-house counsel where required).

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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The base salary range for this position is:

$266,000—$372,400 USD

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