Senior Legal Counsel - relocation to Leeds
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About the Position
Senior Legal Counsel - relocation to Leeds
At DAZN, we are transforming the way the world watches sport, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans globally. As part of our Legal Team, you'll play a critical role in enabling business growth while ensuring legal and regulatory risks are effectively managed. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where commercial impact and legal expertise go hand in hand, DAZN offers an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
We are interested in speaking to candidates who are interested in relocating to Leeds for this position.
Responsibilities
- Leading the drafting, negotiation, and management of complex technology and operational agreements
- Providing strategic legal advice on business initiatives, projects, and commercial transactions
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal and regulatory risks across technology and operations activities
- Advising on contracts relating to software, applications, infrastructure, connectivity, platforms, and enterprise systems
- Supporting legal matters relating to broadcast operations, product development, and strategic business systems
- Managing relationships with external legal advisors, including scope, performance, and cost control
- Contributing to the development and implementation of legal policies, templates, and governance frameworks
- Mentoring Legal Counsel and Paralegals while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Significant experience in corporate, commercial, technology, or telecommunications law
- Strong drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience advising on complex technology agreements and operational matters
- Working knowledge of GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and wider privacy compliance requirements
- Qualification as a Solicitor with approximately 4–6 years' PQE gained in a leading private practice or in-house legal team
We Offer
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, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
About the Company
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 revolutionize 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 you’d 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.
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Sports Entertainment
About the Company DAZN is a global company dedicated to transforming the way the world consumes sports entertainment. They focus on bringing fans closer to their passion through the best technologies available. The company operates as a global community where every opinion and idea can make a difference, emphasizing team spirit and collective ambition to achieve what others might consider impossible. Products, Services & Tech Stack Core Solutions Sports Streaming: DAZN provides streaming services for various sports events, bringing them directly to fans. Technologies & Frameworks Platforms: The company utilizes various platforms to deliver its services, although specific platforms are not detailed in the provided information. Project Scope & Target Clients Client Base Global Sports Fans: DAZN serves a wide range of sports fans globally, providing them with access to live sports events. Engineering Scale Global Operations: DAZN operates on a global scale, with teams and projects spanning multiple countries including the United Kingdom, India, Japan, Germany, the United States, Italy, Spain, Israel, and more. The engineering projects vary in scope and complexity, reflecting the company's global presence and diverse operational needs.