Legal Counsel (Privacy & Product)

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 Your Mission

As Legal Counsel, you will be part of King’s global and Activision Blizzard EMEA legal team, working in a challenging and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your legal expertise. This is a new legal role supporting the King business both from a product and privacy point of view.  It incorporates the flexibility to work on a wide range of consumer, privacy and commercial issues across key parts of our business.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: 

Product:

• Consumer & regulatory - advising our business and game teams on consumer and regulatory issues, including advertising, gaming, consumer protection and pricing, e-commerce and data protection with specific focus on King games

• Marketing - advising our marketing teams on consumer-facing brand and game marketing campaigns, from concept to execution

• Commercial contract drafting and negotiation across the EMEA business

• Generalist intellectual property advice, including asset clearance and release in relation to new game releases and/or new content & features

Privacy:

• Advising the King product and game teams on privacy matters to ensure compliance and anticipate any new regulatory compliance impacting King products and services.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on a variety of products and services across King business including, without limitation, mobile, shared and central technology, marketing and advertising teams to ensure privacy compliance.

• Apply a risk-based approach to privacy advice, reviews and guidance addressed to the business

• Conduct and/or review DPIAs on high profile data processing activities

• Prepare and perform privacy and data protection training, when needed

• Foster and champion a privacy culture across the organization

• Being an key member of the ABK global legal privacy team 

General:

• Keeps abreast of changes in laws, regulations and guidelines across EMEA region that may impact the design, development and marketing of our products and services.

• Be an escalation point for King Player Support when responding to customers queries for both privacy and product

Player Profile

You have great passion for consumer and privacy law and how it can be used effectively and positively in our  businesses. You’ll be passionate, enthusiastic and interested in the company and our games. 

Qualifications/Training

• Qualified, ideally in a well-respected law firm in the UK or other EU jurisdiction with ideally 2-4 years PQE; with some European exposure.

• Ideally, experience working within our, or a similar, industry e.g. gaming, tech, media, or e-commerce

• Experience in a similar role, including privacy 

Knowledge/Experience/Skills/Abilities

• Good understanding of online technologies & their privacy and consumer law implications

• Ability to deal and liaise with stakeholders at all levels within the business

• Strong organizational skills: ability to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues quickly and effectively

• Ability to manage varied workload through proper work balance, prioritisation and delegation.

• Excellent written & communication skills (English)

• CIPP/E accreditation (or similar data protection practitioner qualifications) preferred

• Knowledge of US privacy laws and minor protection is preferred but not required 

• Knowledge of other languages a plus

Personal Attributes

• Team player with ability to build relationships and actively communicate with colleagues and stakeholders of all levels across the business working in a busy matrixed organisation.

• The ability to work concurrently on a variety of projects, effectively prioritise and work under demanding deadlines whilst showing a good sense of humour and a “can do” attitude is essential.

• Pragmatic and curious thinker, not afraid to work outside the box

• Collaborative, proactive, commercial, creative 

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.