Middle Legal Consultant

Scorewarrior, a game developer in Limassol, Cyprus, is seeking a Middle Legal Consultant. This role supports the Legal Department across all legal divisions, providing advice, conducting reviews, and assisting with day-to-day matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating agreements, ensuring compliance with various legal areas like commercial, corporate, data protection, employment, intellectual property, and gaming regulations, and collaborating with internal and external partners.

Must Have

• Law degree with at least 5 years of legal experience
• Strong knowledge of commercial, corporate, data protection, IP, and employment law
• Proficiency in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex agreements
• Strong knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and global data protection regulations
• Understanding of legal and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Experience collaborating across teams for compliance
• Experience in developing and implementing legal and compliance procedures
• Strong analytical, research, and communication skills in English and Greek

Good to Have

• Prior legal experience in the online-gaming sector or IT industry
• Proficiency in gaming industry regulations
• Awareness of emerging legal issues in digital services, AI, and online platforms
• Understanding of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and experience handling related compliance matters

Perks & Benefits

• A team of professionals with a passion for gamedev
• Excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary
• A modern, sunny office close to the sea
• Private health insurance for you and your family members
• A monthly pre-school, school, and university allowance for employees' children
• Lunch compensation
• A sports and fitness allowance
• Company-funded personal development opportunities (professional and language courses, books, etc.)
• Bonuses for outstanding results, years of service, marriage, and childbirth
• Friendly monthly office parties and epic annual offsite company birthday and Christmas celebrations

Job description

Scorewarrior is a game developer based in Limassol, Cyprus. The company focuses on the 4X strategy genre, with an ambitious goal to grow its hit game, Total Battle, to become the No.1 strategy game in the world. Our team consists of 200+ passionate, talented, self-driven, and continually developing professionals who love making high-quality games.

Our mission: to unite and excite people all over the world.

Our product: We are currently working on Total Battle - an MMO 4X strategy game with a deep political system and lots of player interaction. Players take on the role of a commander and need to develop their city, forge alliances, fight against monsters, and conquer other players.

Role: Legal Consultant (Middle)

The Legal Consultant (Middle) supports the Legal Department across all legal divisions by providing legal advice, conducting reviews, and assisting with day-to-day matters involving commercial, corporate, data protection, employment, intellectual property, compliance, gaming, and user-related issues. The role requires drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of agreements; supporting internal departments; coordinating with external partners where needed; and ensuring that legal processes and documents meet regulatory and internal requirements.

What will you do?

• Assist the Legal team and DPO in their daily tasks, offering legal advice and support on a wide range of legal areas such as commercial, corporate, data protection, employment, and gaming.
• Work independently, with team members and other departments on user-related issues, complaints, and DSA matters, providing legal assistance where needed.
• Draft, review and negotiate complex agreements including marketing and advertising, payment services, data protection, corporate, and game supplier agreements.
• Research and analyze legislation of various jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in gaming and other markets where the company operates and stay updated on legal developments.
• Draft, review and negotiate various legal documents including resolutions, employment agreements and rental agreements, NDAs.
• Handle KYC, AML and data protection matters, advise and collaborate with other departments on KYC and AML requirements and business partner due diligence.
• Assisting the DPO with GDPR compliance and other privacy legislation in the rest of the world where Scorewarrior Limited operates, and handling data subject requests.
• Draft, review and update website policies, internal procedures, and legal documentation to meet regulatory requirements.
• Support the company’s privacy system, including impact assessments and audits, and develop GDPR compliance frameworks.
• Collaborate with other departments and advise on legal and regulatory matters affecting the company’s products, user interactions, contract issues, players disputes, and policy violations.
• Ensure legal and regulatory compliance by evaluating how the company presents its services to users.
• Advise on employment law matters and related documentation.
• Provide IP advice to all departments, register and maintain IP rights, manage trademark rights, handle IP complaints and reports of illegal use of the company’s IP rights, and collaborate with global IP firms and trademark agents.
• Work independently, with team members and closely with the Support department in handling user-related issues and complaints requiring legal assistance and advice, as well as the handling of DSA cases.
• Collaborate closely with the Support department to draft and implement efficient procedures for handling cases involving legal matters.
• Collaborate with authorities on investigations and legal matters.
• Undertake additional tasks as needed, reporting to the Head of Legal.

Job requirements

Required Qualifications (Must-Have):

• Law degree with at least 5 years of legal experience at a law firm or as an in-house lawyer..
• Strong knowledge of commercial, corporate, data protection, Intellectual Property, and employment law.
• Proficiency in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and complex agreements (e.g., marketing, advertising, payment services, supplier agreements).
• Strong knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and global data protection regulations, including handling data subject requests, conducting due diligence, ensuring compliance in cross-border data transfers, drafting privacy policies and DPAs, conducting impact assessments, and advising on data breach obligations.
• Understanding of legal and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, including cross-border legal matters and international business regulations.
• Experience collaborating across teams and departments to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in developing and implementing efficient legal and compliance procedures across multiple departments.

Required skills:

• Strong analytical and research skills, with keen attention to detail and the ability to interpret legislation for business applications.
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to work independently, take direction, and own responsibilities.
• Strong team player with excellent business and legal judgment and strong interpersonal skills.
• Well-organized and adaptable, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Greek, with the ability to collaborate across all levels of management.

Preferred Qualifications/Great to Have:

• Prior legal experience in the online-gaming sector or IT industry and proficiency in gaming industry regulations.
• Awareness of emerging legal issues in digital services, AI, and online platforms.
• Understanding of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and experience handling related compliance matters.

What we offer and our benefits:

• A team of professionals with a passion for gamedev and a drive to make Total Battle the #1 strategy MMO game.
• An excellent remuneration package, including a 13th salary.
• A modern, sunny office close to the sea.
• Private health insurance for you and your family members.
• A monthly pre-school, school, and university allowance for employees' children.
• Lunch compensation.
• A sports and fitness allowance.
• Company-funded personal development opportunities (professional and language courses, books, etc.).
• Bonuses for outstanding results, years of service, marriage, and childbirth.
• Friendly monthly office parties and epic annual offsite company birthday and Christmas celebrations.