Overview In this role you will serve as a senior legal advisor to Walgreens Advertising Group, enabling compliant innovation in retail media, data monetization, and digital advertising. You'll partner with cross-functional teams to structure complex commercial deals and govern data use and privacy across programmatic activations. You will build scalable legal frameworks to support growth while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk management. You'll work closely with senior leaders to align legal strategy with business objectives and industry trends.
Responsibilities- Counsel on commercial, product and advertising matters for retail media offerings across Walgreens properties and third-party platforms
- Structure and negotiate complex agreements with advertisers, agencies, ad tech vendors, and data partners
- Advise on data use, onboarding, targeting, attribution, and privacy compliance for the Retail Media Network
- Lead negotiations with ecosystem partners (DSPs, onboarding/data providers, measurement vendors, media platforms) and advise on regulatory risks of programmatic activations
- Develop scalable legal frameworks, templates, and guardrails to support business growth
- Act as trusted advisor to senior business leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate risk and achieve objectives
- Review and prepare legal documents for management approval and execution; manage outside counsel as needed
- Maintain currency on legal and business trends impacting Walgreens advertising and data practices
Key requirements- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- Required bar licensure in at least one state (Illinois required or active bar in good standing in another U.S. jurisdiction)
- Five or more years of post-bar legal experience in law firm and/or corporate settings
- Experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace (e.g., budgets, contracts, commercial terms)
- Five or more years of direct leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership
- Strong time management and ability to manage multiple projects with deadlines
- Experience engaging with outside counsel and managing legal projects
- trusted advisor to senior leaders
- cross-functional collaboration
- clear communication and negotiation
- data privacy and advertising compliance
- data onboarding, pseudonymization, audience targeting, attribution frameworks
- programmatic advertising and ad tech contracting
