Legal Counsel, Commercial

Role Overview

• Review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts and provide strategic and proactive legal advice to business clients.
• Ability to draft and synthesize key clauses and create bespoke agreements in connection with unique business transactions.
• Leverage AI enabled tools to efficiently review and draft commercial agreements and support timely, data informed legal guidance to business partners.
• Adopt a collaborative approach with business partners to lead negotiations with partners, suppliers, and affiliates across different business functions.
• Manage multiple assignments simultaneously and possess the ability to correctly prioritize and triage the same.
• Maintain an effective and organized executed contract repository utilizing the company’s contract management system.
• Assess risks and use sound business and legal judgment to respond to questions, make decisions, and negotiate deals to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Inspire confidence in business partners by consistently providing well-reasoned legal advice and practical and creative solutions to complex issues.
• Proactively identify and advise on legal issues arising from potential and existing commercial relationships.
• Collaborate with, support, and advise business partners on a wide array of contractual and commercial matters requiring legal advice.
• Exhibit a strong work ethic and take ownership of complex projects and contract reviews with minimal supervision while demonstrating sound judgment and superior decision-making, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor Degree required.
• Minimum of three years of being a licensed attorney with progressive responsibility in reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• Experience practicing law in a top-tier law firm and/or equivalent in-house experience.
• Experience working in an in-house legal department, regulated industry, and/or negotiating technology services, software, SaaS transactions preferred.
• Gaming license registration as required by applicable jurisdictions.
• Substantive knowledge and understanding of legal strategies and principles related to contract drafting and negotiating; ability to analyze and apply legal principles and precedents to legal issues; ability to perform legal research, evaluate alternatives and make sound recommendations.
• Basic proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Outlook.
• Experience working with a contract management tool preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Pre-tax spending accounts including health care FSA and commuter savings
• Flexible paid time off
• Professional development reimbursement and ongoing skills training opportunities
• Employee resource groups
• Swag, ticket giveaways, and more!