Senior Legal Counsel

London · Hybrid

About this role

Senior Legal Counsel

Department: 32-931 - Legal - Tech & Ops

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Reporting To: James Cooper



Description

DAZN is transforming the way the world watches sport, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans globally. Behind this experience is a complex and innovative technology ecosystem spanning streaming platforms, broadcast operations, content delivery infrastructure, enterprise systems, and digital products. As part of our Legal Team, you'll play a critical role in enabling business growth while ensuring legal and regulatory risks are effectively managed. Working alongside senior stakeholders across technology, operations, product, and commercial functions, you'll help shape strategic decisions, support innovation, and contribute to the continued success of one of the world's leading sports entertainment platforms. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where commercial impact and legal expertise go hand in hand, DAZN offers an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

As Senior Legal Counsel – Technology & Operations, you will provide expert legal support on complex, high-impact, and strategically significant matters across DAZN's global technology and operations functions. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, you'll deliver pragmatic and commercially focused legal guidance while supporting business growth, innovation, and operational excellence. You will lead negotiations on critical technology agreements, manage legal risk across key projects, and help shape governance frameworks and legal best practices. In addition, you'll mentor junior colleagues, manage external legal counsel where required, and collaborate closely with stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions to ensure legal considerations are effectively integrated into business decision-making.


What You'll Be Doing:

  • Leading the drafting, negotiation, and management of complex technology and operational agreements
  • Providing strategic legal advice on business initiatives, projects, and commercial transactions
  • Identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal and regulatory risks across technology and operations activities
  • Advising on contracts relating to software, applications, infrastructure, connectivity, platforms, and enterprise systems
  • Supporting legal matters relating to broadcast operations, product development, and strategic business systems
  • Managing relationships with external legal advisors, including scope, performance, and cost control
  • Contributing to the development and implementation of legal policies, templates, and governance frameworks
  • Mentoring Legal Counsel and Paralegals while promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement


What You'll Bring:

  • Significant experience in corporate, commercial, technology, or telecommunications law
  • Strong drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience advising on complex technology agreements and operational matters
  • Working knowledge of GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and wider privacy compliance requirements
  • Qualification as a Solicitor with approximately 4–6 years' PQE gained in a leading private practice or in-house legal team


Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

Company at a glance

We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.

We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.

As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere.

For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, that’s fine. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.

If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustrySpectator Sports
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Access to DAZN
  • 25 Days Annual Leave
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Assurance
  • Pension Contributions Up To 5%
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Electric Vehicle Benefit Option
  • Learning And Development Resources
  • Flexible Working
  • Internal Speaker Series And Events

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