Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel

Department: 32-884 - Legal - Commercial - Distribution & Regulatory

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: UK - London

Description
Why join DAZN:

Joining the DAZN Legal Team in Hammersmith means becoming part of a dynamic, forward-thinking company at the forefront of sports streaming. You'll work on high-impact legal matters, supporting groundbreaking global product initiatives, regulatory strategy, and strategic partnerships across multiple markets. With career development opportunities, you'll collaborate with a team of industry experts while shaping the future of sports media. Located in one of London's most vibrant areas, you'll enjoy a fast-paced, innovative environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on DAZN's global growth and success.

The Role:

Joining DAZN as a Senior Legal Counsel (CDR) and you play a key role in navigating the fast-evolving legal landscape of a global sports streaming leader. You'll provide strategic legal support to our commercial and product teams, with a focus on regulatory advisory matters. From global product launches to high-impact deals, you'll collaborate on initiatives that shape the future of digital sports consumption. You'll also engage with regulators and expand your transactional expertise across partnerships and distribution deals worldwide.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a mid-level TMT or commercial lawyer to step into the exciting world of sports media.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead our core regulatory advisory function in the CDR Legal team, including advising on the consumer, competition and broadcast regulatory law aspects of DAZN's various products and services.
• Provide legal support for business stakeholders relating to new product initiatives and product development.
• Be responsible for day to day legal advice requirements for terms and conditions, marketing campaigns, price changes, win-back campaigns, customer migrations and promotional offers on a global basis.
• Provide a holistic approach to compliance, developing and maintaining applicable documentation and comparing applicable laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Draft and negotiate a variety of partnership, distribution and other commercial agreements.
• Work closely with other members of the wider DAZN Group Legal team across various specialisms to assist with regulatory involvement in wider DAZN projects (e.g. corporate, media rights and broadcast, new markets, IP).

What You'll Bring:

• Demonstrable experience of PQE, with training at a leading international TMT or commercial team (either in private practice or a strong in-house team).
• Expert knowledge of laws impacting digital media services, with a particular focus on UK and EU regulations.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical business solutions, managing legal risks in an approachable, clear manner.
• First-class technical legal skills, including advisory, drafting, and interpretation expertise.
• Proactive mindset, eager to step out of your comfort zone and play a key role in developing DAZN's legal function.

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.

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

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.