Legal Counsel

Two Circles is seeking a Legal Counsel to lead legal matters for its North American business, acting as the primary legal contact for stakeholders and supporting global technology work. The role involves significant work with product development, SaaS contracts, sports content, media, and commercial strategy, as well as advising on general in-house legal areas like data protection and IP. This position offers significant career growth within a fast-paced sports and entertainment marketing organization.

Must Have

• Lead counsel for Two Circles’ North American business
• Primary legal point of contact for all stakeholders
• Responsibility for North American contracting, particularly product development and SaaS contracts
• Support on legal aspects of Two Circles’ global technology work
• Advise on high-profile complex agreements and relevant regulatory/commercial issues
• Advise colleagues across commercial contracts, data protection, IP, corporate, employment and regulatory
• Lead impactful global business change programs
• 4+ years of experience at a leading law firm and/or corporate legal department
• Bachelor’s Degree
• License to practice law in NY, California, Missouri or other appropriate state
• Significant prior experience negotiating technology contracts and advising on product matters
• Strong commercial acumen and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate legal knowledge into commercially and operationally oriented solutions
• Proactive with a strong sense of personal responsibility to drive the business forward
• Ability to work autonomously on a wide variety of projects
• Comfortable partnering with senior executives on key strategic decisions
• Able to autonomously draft and negotiate client/supplier contracts to a high level
• Demonstrable interest in the business of sports and entertainment
• Familiarity with its technology landscape
• Clear ambition to build a long-term career in sports and entertainment

Good to Have

• Experience working in sports content and/or commercial strategy
• Experience working with or in high-growth technology companies
• Desire to take a hands-on approach for developing the business from within
• International legal experience in EMEA, Australia, India
• Speaking French or German to a working professional standard

Description

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people, based out of 15 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Our Legal Team plays an integral role in this fast-paced, high-growth and entrepreneurial organization at the heart of the sports and entertainment industry, enabling the business across all clients, teams and countries. This hire of a newly created role as Legal Counsel provides significant scope for career growth and personal development, with every day providing new opportunities to have a direct impact on cutting-edge sports and entertainment technology and content matters, working with some of the world’s leading rights holders.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead counsel for Two Circles’ North American business, acting as primary legal point of contact for all stakeholders and working as a key part of Two Circles’ global legal team
• Responsibility for all aspects of Two Circles’ North American contracting, particularly in relation to product development and SaaS contracts, with significant work also relating to sports content, media and commercial strategy
• Supporting on legal aspects of Two Circles’ global technology work on behalf of leading international rights holders and properties, advising on high-profile complex agreements and relevant regulatory/commercial issues
• Wide expertise as a generalist in-house counsel and advising colleagues across other areas of law as required (including commercial contracts, data protection, IP, corporate, employment and regulatory) – we don’t expect you to be an expert in all these areas but an ambition to broaden your experience will be crucial
• Leading impactful global business change programs, such as innovative implementation of legal tech as Two Circles continues to scale faster and further globally

REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience at a leading law firm and/or corporate legal department
• Bachelor’s Degree
• License to practice law in NY, California, Missouri or other appropriate state for Two Circles’ business
• Significant prior experience negotiating technology contracts and advising on product matters required
• Strong commercial acumen and interpersonal skills, with an ability to communicate legal knowledge into commercially and operationally oriented solutions
• Proactive with a strong sense of personal responsibility to drive the business forward and an ability to work autonomously on a wide variety of projects
• Comfortable partnering with senior executives on key strategic decisions, whilst also able to autonomously draft and negotiate client/supplier contracts to a high level
• A demonstrable interest in the business of sports and entertainment, familiarity with its technology landscape and a clear ambition to build a long-term career in sports and entertainment
• Experience working in sports content and/or commercial strategy preferred
• Experience working with or in high-growth technology companies and a desire to take a hands-on approach for developing the business from within
• International legal experience in EMEA, Australia, India and/or speaking French or German a working professional standard is advantageous