Associate General Counsel, Ads Product

reddit; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 372,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

401(k) with employer match

Global benefit programs

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an Associate General Counsel for the Ads Product team to provide strategic legal guidance to product and engineering groups while working with privacy, regulatory, and policy colleagues. The role focuses on enabling product growth within a rapidly evolving ads business.

The position emphasizes autonomous advisory responsibilities on complex product initiatives, data governance, and emerging technologies including AI features.

Qualifications

• Advertising experience of 10+ years focused on online ads and platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of privacy laws and data governance.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear guidance for product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise ads product teams on growth initiatives and emerging technologies.
• Serve as principal legal advisor to ads product areas and lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Develop governance frameworks to navigate evolving regulatory environments for ads products.
• Counsel on AI-driven features, data-clean-room solutions, and machine learning applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business partners across Reddit.

Skills

Advertising expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Privacy law knowledge

Communication skills

Project management

Education

JD and state bar

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

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).
• 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
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

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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