Legal Counsel
14 hours ago
Leeds
Legal Counsel - Technology & Operations The Legal Counsel - Technology and Operations provides legal support across a range of business activities, managing routine and moderately complex legal matters within defined areas of responsibility and practice experience. The role ensures adherence to internal legal processes and policies, delivers practical, business-focused legal advice to primarily support DAZNs technology and operations teams, and contributes to the effective management of legal risks and the enablement of business delivery. What You'll Be Doing: Operational Delivery: Manage day-to-day and moderately complex legal queries and transactional work, particularly around contracts, contentious business issues, BAU compliance, and approvals. Support the negotiation and delivery of commercial agreements under the guidance of Senior Legal Counsel Technology and Operations. Risk Awareness: Identify legal and commercial risks in lower complexity matters and escalate appropriately. Propose practical mitigation options and support the implementation of risk-management measures. Documentation: Draft and review legal agreements, ensuring alignment with templates and internal standards. Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal precedents and policies. Process Adherence: Follow internal legal workflows and contribute to consistent legal process delivery. Help identify opportunities to improve efficiency and consistency in legal processes and documentation. Stakeholder Support: Provide responsive and clear legal advice to business teams on BAU matters, with primary focus on global technology and operational support. Build constructive relationships with the requisite commercial and operational teams and functional stakeholders. What You'll Bring: Strong legal drafting and review skills for standard agreements with good understanding of key commercial contract principles. Specific technical expertise to draft and negotiate technology agreements including contracts relating to applications, software licensing, network infrastructure and connectivity, platforms and enterprise systems. Effective communication and stakeholder management with an ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences. Ability to follow established workflows and maintain consistency whilst identifying opportunities for improvement. Some experience in corporate/commercial law and/or relevant legal practice in the Technology, Media, Telecoms sector. Ideally previous legal experience in relation to content delivery network services, live and non-live OTT platforms & players, video broadcasting production, video distribution and content acquisition. Working knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation, Data Protection Act 2018 and the E-Privacy Regulation, and experience of managing compliance with the same, such as identifying data privacy risks, understanding data privacy impact assessments and implementing compliance procedures. Relevant degree and professionally qualified Solicitor.Around 2-4 years of PQE, having trained at and subsequently worked in a highly successful and recognised technology/commercial team either in private practice, or a strong in-house team. Benefits Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events. About DAZN At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. DAZN VALUES THE HOW IN WHAT WE DO: Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. If youd like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can. We look forward to hearing from you. TPBN1_UKTJ