Senior Legal Counsel - Technology & Operations

As Senior Legal Counsel – Technology and Operations, you'll provide expert legal support on complex, high impact and strategically significant issues, ensuring effective risk management, strategic alignment and consistent application of legal policies. As a trusted advisor to DAZN’s technology and operations senior management, you'll influence commercial and operational decisions, contributing to the organisation by delivering high-quality, pragmatic legal advice, proactively identifying opportunities to enable business growth, reducing external legal spend, and supporting the development of the wider Legal Team.

Department

32-931 - Legal - Tech & Ops

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead on drafting, negotiation, and legal positioning within scope of responsibility. Independently manage high-value and strategically significant technology and operations matters with minimal supervision 
• Identify and manage legal risks related to transactions, commercial matters, and compliance; escalate when necessary. Develop and implement practical risk-mitigation strategies aligned with the company’s risk profile. .
• Mentor Legal Counsel and Paralegals; foster knowledge sharing and team development. Act as a role model in embedding a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration across teams, geographies and practice areas.
• Act as primary contact for external legal support in relevant subject matter areas. Oversee scope, cost management and performance of external advisors to ensure value and consistency with internal standards and expectations. 
• Ensure consistent application of legal policies, templates, and frameworks across all matters. Help contribute to policy development and continuous improvement of governance frameworks. 
• Business Partnership: Provide strategic and commercially focused legal input to business initiatives, projects and negotiations. Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders and lawyers to balance risk and opportunity. 

What You'll Bring:

• Technical Skills: Advanced legal drafting, negotiation, and advisory skills. Specific technical expertise to draft and negotiate core technology agreements – including contracts relating to applications, software licensing, network infrastructure and connectivity, platforms and enterprise systems. Provide legal support for business stakeholders relating to operations and strategic business systems, including broadcast operations and product development.  
  
  
• Soft Skills: Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities with the ability to balance legal precision with commercial pragmatism
  
• Leadership Skills:  Ability to mentor and guide junior team members and to lead cross-departmental/functional workstreams of projects to successful completion
  
• Experience: Significant 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. 
   
• Education: Relevant degree and professionally qualified Solicitor.Around 4-6 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 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.