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Director, Ads Product Legal

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Job Summary

Lead Reddit's Ads Product legal function globally, overseeing a team of ads lawyers, advising C-suite on strategic privacy, regulatory and compliance matters across products like Reddit Max, targeting, measurement and brand safety. Build scalable processes to accelerate product velocity and expansion into new markets while ensuring lawful, responsible ads innovation.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a team of ads lawyers supporting Reddit’s Ads Product, Ads Engineering, and Monetization org.
•Act as a player-coach, directly counseling and providing strategic advice to business leadership and Reddit's C-Suite on mission-critical ads product initiatives, such as Reddit Max, targeting, measurement, and brand safety products.
•Advise Reddit’s Ads Policy teams on how to scale across emerging verticals and global markets.
•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.
•Help drive allocation and prioritization of engineering resources for legal initiatives as we enter or expand into new markets (e.g., DSA/VLOP compliance).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 299,200 - 418,800 annually

Perks:Health Insurance401kCaregiving SupportParental Leave

Key Requirements

•12-15+ years practicing law, including 7+ years in-house as an ads product counsel at a tech company and 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, self-regulatory regimes) with 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) and how data moves through them.
•Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to distill complex technical and legal issues into crisp, actionable guidance and decision docs.
•JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (or ability to register as in-house counsel where required).

Experience:AdvertisingPrivacyLegal counselAds product

Skills:CommunicationLeadershipStrategic thinking

Certifications:Bar Admission

Languages:English

Company Brief

Operates Reddit, a large online community and discussion platform where users submit content, comment, and vote across topic-based communities (subreddits); monetizes via advertising, premium subscriptions, and awards.

Industry: Digital Media

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2005

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