Legal Counsel

1 Month ago • 1-2 Years • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a Legal Counsel to join our legal team in either Brighton or Copenhagen. This is a hands-on role supporting the entire studio, working on various contract negotiations including talent deals, composer agreements, development agreements, and publishing deals. You will also assist with day-to-day legal questions, maintain templates, ensure compliance with privacy, IP, and marketing topics, and coordinate with external counsel. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their legal career looking for a dynamic and broad role within the games industry.
Must have:
  • Legal qualification in Denmark or the UK
  • 1-2 years of relevant experience
  • Pragmatic and clear approach to legal work
  • Confidence working with non-lawyers
  • Draft, review, and negotiate agreements
  • Support day-to-day legal questions
  • Ensure compliance on privacy, IP, marketing
Good to have:
  • Interest in games or entertainment

Job Details

We’re looking for a Legal Counsel to join us in either Brighton or Copenhagen. You’ll be the fourth full-time member of our legal team, alongside one student assistant, with another joining soon. We support the entire studio and help keep things running smoothly as we support Hitman and build 007 First Light, Project Fantasy, and more.

This is a great role if you’re early in your legal career and want to move fast, work broadly, and be close to the teams making the games. It’s a wide-ranging, hands-on position where you’ll use your legal training every day, not in a vacuum, but across all major contract negotiations at IOI. That includes talent deals for our Elusive Targets in Hitman (with actors like Mads Mikkelsen and Sean Bean), composers for the 007 First Light game, large-scale development agreements, publishing deals, and more.

We have a strong focus on keeping our great studio culture, which means we are in the studio four days a week. One day can be remote – if you want it.

How to apply

No need for a long cover letter – tell us why this role interests you and what you will bring to the team. That’s what we will focus on.

What you will do

  • Draft, review, and help negotiate a range of agreements: NDAs, vendor deals, licenses, and more
  • Support teams across the business with day-to-day legal questions
  • Keep templates and internal workflows up to date
  • Help ensure compliance on privacy, IP, marketing, and similar topics
  • Coordinate with external counsel when needed

Who you are

  • Legal qualification in Denmark or the UK
  • Around 1–2 years of relevant experience – in-house, private practice, or similar
  • A pragmatic, clear, structured approach to legal work
  • Confidence working directly with non-lawyers across disciplines
  • An interest in games or entertainment is a plus, not a requirement

Who we are

IO Interactive is an independent game developer and publisher with studios in Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, Istanbul, and Brighton. We’re known for the Hitman series and are currently developing multiple large-scale projects in our own Glacier engine.
We work as one team across all locations. We value openness, clarity, and people who take initiative. We try to keep things simple – even when the problems aren’t.

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About The Company

IO Interactive is an independent video game development and publishing company with studios in Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, Brighton and Istanbul. As the creative force behind some of the most talked-about multiplatform video games in the last decade, we are dedicated to creating unforgettable characters and experiences – all powered by our award-winning proprietary Glacier technology.

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