Director, Ads Product Legal

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United States · Remote · Legal

Lead a team of ads lawyers and provide strategic advice on ads product initiatives, privacy, and regulatory compliance for Reddit's Ads Product & Engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of ads lawyers supporting Reddit’s Ads Product, Ads Engineering, and Monetization org.
  2. Act as a player-coach, directly counseling and providing strategic advice to business leadership and Reddit's C-suite on our most mission-critical ads product initiatives, such as Reddit Max, search and dynamic product ads, identity & signals, targeting, measurement, and brand safety products.
  3. Advise Reddit’s Ads Policy teams on how to scale across emerging verticals and global markets.
  4. Develop and drive a coherent legal strategy and risk framework for ads products globally, aligning with Privacy, Regulatory, and Commercial Legal on risk appetite, escalation paths, and documentation standards.
  5. Help drive allocation and prioritization of engineering resources for legal initiatives as we enter or expand into new markets (e.g., DSA/VLOP compliance).

Skills

Required

  • 12-15+ years practicing law
  • 7+ years in-house as an ads product counsel at a tech company
  • significant time leading an ads product counsel team
  • Deep familiarity with privacy and data protection frameworks relevant to ads globally (e.g., GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, U.S. state privacy laws, children’s/sensitive data, and self-regulatory regimes)
  • substantial focus on measurement, targeting, ad tech, and regulatory compliance
  • Strong working knowledge of online advertising ecosystems (platforms, Pixels/ CAPI, MMPs, data clean rooms, measurement vendors)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Proven ability to set a clear legal strategy
  • influence senior cross-functional leaders
  • drive alignment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

Nice to have

  • preferably a UGC platform

What the JD emphasized

  • deep global privacy knowledge
  • ads product counsel
  • leading an ads product counsel team
  • privacy and data protection frameworks relevant to ads globally
  • measurement, targeting, ad tech, and regulatory compliance
  • online advertising ecosystems
  • legal strategy
  • influence senior cross-functional leaders