Director, Legal, YouTube Music EMEA

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a legal field, LL.B, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in private practice or in-house team in the UK.
• Experience managing in-house legal teams.
• Qualified solicitor, admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience advising senior clients, managing legal team members in advising on complex commercial, product, and policy development challenges and providing related legal advice (including risk analysis), and partnering/influencing effectively with cross-functional teams and senior executives.
• Experience in privacy, media, communications, and intellectual property law.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects at once.
• Excellent teamwork, leadership, influencing, and communication skills, and ability to create and foster strong cross-functional networks and manage without authority.
• Passion for taking on cutting-edge legal issues.

About the Job:

The Music Legal Team at YouTube is dedicated to advising Google on a wide variety of complex legal matters that pose risk to our products and businesses. In this role, you will be responsible for driving and leading commercial, product, regulatory, and strategic decisions related to music and aggregated content licensing, including music-related generative AI and non-music incorporeal rights, in EMEA across all Google products, particularly focused on YouTube. You will manage a team across the region, advise VPs and Directors in business, legal, policy, and product, represent Google in senior government meetings, and help guide business and product architecture, product decisions, litigation efforts, and regulatory positions (both active and reactive) across all of EMEA.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, develop, manage, and serve as an escalation point for the Music Legal team supporting music and aggregated licensing matters across Google and YouTube.
• Manage a team of LTMs at the forefront of a challenging, time-consuming, and complex area, ensuring the team’s health and well-being while also meeting timelines.
• Review, draft, and manage complex, specialized music and collective licensing agreements that comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
• Manage executive escalations of legal issues in the music space.
• Advise colleagues and other cross-functional stakeholders on legal issues and risks, approval processes, company policies/procedures, intellectual property, and strategy.
• Develop broader expertise in EMEA content regulations, music, and aggregated licensing, and collaborate with other Legal teams to advise on the impact of these laws.
• Work with leadership across Google in the Regulatory Lifecycle process.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.