Senior Legal Counsel

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

Steel City Interactive (SCI) is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel for a 12-month fixed-term contract due to maternity leave. The role focuses on licensing agreements for well-known athletes and in-game sponsorship/brand placement. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating image rights and sponsorship deals, analyzing and negotiating various third-party contracts, advising on legal risks and regulations to stakeholders, assisting with government inquiries, and improving standard legal agreements and processes. The ideal candidate will be a UK-qualified solicitor with at least 5 years of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE) from a reputable commercial law firm or in-house legal department, preferably with experience in media, entertainment, or professional sports.
Must have:
  • UK qualified solicitor
  • Minimum 5 years PQE
  • Draft and negotiate licensing agreements
  • Advise on legal risk and regulation
  • Detail-oriented and organized
Good to have:
  • Experience in media/entertainment
  • Experience in professional sports
  • Employment law experience
Perks:
  • Healthy work-life balance
  • 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Christmas shut down
  • Holiday exchange programme
  • Flexible working hours
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
  • Private Healthcare (Optical & Dental)
  • Dog friendly studio
  • Free snacks, fruit, and drinks
  • Free parking
  • Company sick pay
  • 2 days paid Mental Health leave
  • 24/7 doctors access
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Learning days
  • Unlimited Udemy courses access
  • Technology scheme
  • Discretionary Cost of Living Payments
  • Relocation benefits
  • Electric Car Vehicle Scheme
  • Bonus
  • Wrap parties & company paid outings
  • Individual entertainment budget

Job Details

About Steel City Interactive

SCI was born out of passion for video games and boxing, with the ambition to create an authentic and exciting boxing game that does justice to the sport we love. What started as a fun prototype has grown into ‘Undisputed’, the first major boxing video game in over a decade.  

SCI is a welcoming place for expression and open communication, where everyone has a voice. We’re a diverse bunch, consisting of people with decades of games industry experience, graduates and talented individuals who come from other industries. We all bring knowledge and learn from each other.

Together we are driven by ambition to bring the world of boxing into a video game like never before.  

 

The Role

Due to a period of maternity leave, SCI is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join the team for a 12-month fixed term contract. You will focus on licensing agreements for our portfolio of well-known athletes and in game sponsorship / brand placement licences. You'll thrive in our fast-paced environment and articulate positions related to licensing and sponsorships in a way that balances business needs with risk mitigation.

As a member of the team, you will draft and negotiate SCI’s image rights agreements and sponsorship deals in tandem with SCI’s business development and brand management teams.

The position also regularly interacts with SCI’s other internal business units (e.g., Marketing/Communications, Finance, Operations, etc.) and you will be expected to advise key stakeholders on legal risk and regulation.

Responsibilities

  • Analyse, review, draft and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of third-party contractual relationships with our partners, including services, sales, advertising, licensing, image rights, distribution and manufacturing agreements.
  • Advise and help prepare SCI’s answers to investigations & inquiries from any government and/or regulatory authority.
  • Advise local teams on a wide range of legal issues, with a focus on business and operational topics.
  • Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders, to support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and legal processes.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

  • You must be a UK qualified solicitor with a minimum of 5 years PQE at a respected commercial law firm and/or equivalent in-house legal department. Ideally experience at a media/entertainment company or professional sports organisation, but not essential. We would also be particularly interested in speaking with those lawyers who have employment experience as part of a wider role.

To succeed, the appointee will be someone who:

  • has proven ability to accept and action instructions concerning both specific assignments and general policies.
  • has a demonstrative track record of ownership and accountability for projects, duties, and tasks.
  • can organise workflow and deadlines efficiently (including advising on priority and project management).
  • is detail-oriented, resourceful, adaptable, organised; a problem solver who can remain calm and work under pressure.


What we offer

Healthy work-life balance:

  • 23 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), that increases 1 day per year of service.
  • Christmas shut down
  • Holiday exchange programme
  • Flexible working hours

Support for family life:

  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
  • Private Healthcare which includes Optical & Dental

Great office environment:

  • A dog friendly studio based in Sheffield, with free snacks, fruit and drinks!
  • Free parking

Health & wellbeing support:

  • Company sick pay
  • 2 days paid Mental Health leave per year
  • Access to 24/7 doctors
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Learning support:

  • Learning days
  • Unlimited access to Udemy courses

Additional financial support:

  • Technology scheme (up to £750)
  • Discretionary Cost of Living Payments
  • Relocation benefits
  • Electric Car Vehicle Scheme
  • Bonus

Connection and perks:

  • Wrap parties & company paid outings
  • Individual entertainment budget to cover team events

Steel City Interactive is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse team and welcome all applications, considering them without regard to race, religion, belief, age, gender, gender expression, gender identity, gender reassignment, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, sex or sexual orientation.

If you’re excited about this role and believe you would add value to our team, but don’t meet every single requirement, we would still like to hear from you – please let us know about the value you would bring in your application.

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About The Company

Sheffield-based Steel City Interactive (SCI) was founded in 2020 by three brothers, Ash, Asif and Asad Habib. Formed around the idea of creating the first major, new boxing game in over a decade. The rapidly growing studio now employs 70 people and has partnerships with the world of boxing’s leading companies including the WBC, Ring Magazine, CompuBox, BoxRec, many other prestigious boxing organisations and many of the biggest fighters. During development SCI has created innovative, proprietary technology to bring the world of boxing to life like never before.Our roots are in Sheffield, a city buzzing with music, food, sport, cultural diversity and the glorious Peak District National Park on our doorstep.

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