Senior Legal Counsel

Why Join DAZN?

DAZN is transforming the way the world watches sport, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans globally. Behind this experience is a complex and innovative technology ecosystem spanning streaming platforms, broadcast operations, content delivery infrastructure, enterprise systems, and digital products. 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. Working alongside senior stakeholders across technology, operations, product, and commercial functions, you'll help shape strategic decisions, support innovation, and contribute to the continued success of one of the world's leading sports entertainment platforms. 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.

The Role:

As Senior Legal Counsel – Technology & Operations, you will provide expert legal support on complex, high-impact, and strategically significant matters across DAZN's global technology and operations functions. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, you'll deliver pragmatic and commercially focused legal guidance while supporting business growth, innovation, and operational excellence. You will lead negotiations on critical technology agreements, manage legal risk across key projects, and help shape governance frameworks and legal best practices. In addition, you'll mentor junior colleagues, manage external legal counsel where required, and collaborate closely with stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions to ensure legal considerations are effectively integrated into business decision-making.

Department

32-931 - Legal - Tech & Ops

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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

What You'll Bring:

• 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

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, 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 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.