Commercial Legal Counsel

Summary

Join GRID as a Commercial Legal Counsel and support the day-to-day legal operations. Reporting to the General Counsel, you will handle a wide range of legal work, including commercial, regulatory, compliance, and IP matters. You will advise various teams on contracts, risk, and best practices. The role involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, advising on legal and regulatory issues in betting and IP data rights protection, and working with the esports services team. You will also coordinate with external counsel and help scale legal operations. This position requires legal qualification in a European, UK, or US jurisdiction and excellent English skills. An understanding of betting-related licensing and compliance, esports, gaming, and intellectual property is preferred.

Requirements

• Legally qualified in a European, UK, or US jurisdiction, with a willingness to advise on international legal matters and cross-border issues while working with external counsel
• Excellent English and attention to detail
• Have an understanding of or be willing to learn about betting-related licensing and compliance matters

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate on a wide range of commercial and legal agreements with world-leading rightsholders and the distribution of GRID data to downstreaming customers in media, betting and product applications
• Advise business teams on legal and regulatory issues in betting, IP data rights protection
• Work closely with the esports services team for legal contracts for the CCT Tour esports series of tournaments
• Coordinate with external counsel on specialist or local matters
• Help scale legal operations by improving templates, workflows, and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• An interest and understanding of esports or gaming
• An interest in intellectual property
• Have a practical mindset
• Being organised, diligent and reliable

Benefits

• 28+ days paid time off
• It’s Complicated - mental health support
• Flexible working conditions
• Company and team-wide events
• Work travel opportunities with travel insurance
• Training and development budget
• Company equipment
• Language courses, when based in our offices
• Gym/ workout class membership when based in our offices