- Jess Smith
- Director, Head of Marketing Legal & Commercial Transactions / Uber Technologies, Inc.
Jess Smith is a Director and Head of the Marketing Legal and Commercial Transactions teams at Uber. In this role Jess leads two teams of senior lawyers and legal professionals. The Marketing Legal team counsels on consumer protection issues and supports Uber’s marketing and advertising activities; the Commercial Transactions team drafts and negotiates complex commercial agreements for Uber’s global procurement team. At Uber, Jess also helped launch and scale Uber’s Advertising business up to $1B in ARR and built the Ads Legal team. Before joining Uber, Jess served as Snap’s NY Revenue & Marketing Counsel, where she advised Snap's largest ad sales office. Prior to going in-house, Jess was an associate in the advertising, digital media, and privacy group at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, and before that, a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Jess clerked for Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals, was a member of the law review and Order of the Coif at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, and graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Willy, kids Margot and Ruby, and dog Bear!