Digital Media, Ads & Marketing Counsel

Job Description: • Serve as a trusted legal advisor to both the Ads and Marketing teams, supporting strategic initiatives, campaigns, product innovations, and launches. • Provide proactive, pragmatic legal advice on a range of matters, including commercial terms, business operations, consumer protection, advertising compliance, IP (including trademark, copyright, and right of publicity clearance and counseling), privacy, and digital content strategy. • Draft, negotiate, and implement commercial agreements, including advertising platform agreements, publisher contracts, influencer, talent and sponsorship deals, and media buying terms. • Monitor and interpret relevant legal and regulatory developments affecting marketing, retail media, advertising platforms, and e-commerce. • Partner with Product, Compliance, Data Privacy, Brand, and Engineering to ensure legal considerations are embedded in the planning stages. Requirements: • J.D. from a top-tier law school and active membership in at least one state bar (California preferred). • 5+ years of relevant legal experience, with a strong emphasis in advertising and marketing law. • At least 3+ years supporting or advising businesses on digital advertising platforms, marketing programs, or retail media networks. • Direct experience providing legal support to a high-performing sales team and/or an innovative, fast-paced marketing organization. • Proven ability to counsel on new product launches and marketing activations, including pre-launch review and cross-functional collaboration. • Strong command of advertising, intellectual property, privacy, and consumer protection law. • Demonstrated experience managing partner negotiations and handling contracts from inception to execution. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify legal complexity for a wide audience. Benefits: • Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. • Remote work options. • New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants. Apply tot his job