Team Name:
Job Title:
Commercial & Privacy Paralegal | 12 month FTC
Requisition ID:
R028354
Job Description:
Commercial & Privacy Paralegal
Contract Term: 12 month fixed-term
Location: Office-based (Soho, London) and hybrid work from home
Your Mission
You will be part of Activision Blizzard's EMEA and King's global legal team, working in a collaborative and exciting environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your expertise. This role supports two key areas, the commercial team primarily supporting King and the privacy team supporting ABK's global privacy programme.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
Commercial:
Supporting the commercial team on drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts for Activision, Blizzard and King entities.
Responsible for handling NDAs across the business.
Legal research
General support to Legal Team including preparing, maintaining and updating legal documentation, online filling, processing signatures and document management databases.
Privacy:
General support to privacy team on privacy and compliance matters.
Conducting and reviewing privacy risk assessments and legitimate interest assessments.
Supporting completion of DPIAs
Supporting drafting of data processing agreements and conducting transfer impact assessments.
Monitoring privacy inboxes and supporting responses to DSRs, data incidents, regulatory enquiries, and law enforcement requests involving personal data.
Maintaining privacy documentation, including ROPAs, policies, notices, and internal guidance.
Monitoring developments in global privacy legislation and legal research.
Player Profile
You'll be hard-working, enthusiastic and interested in the company and our games.
Qualifications/Training
Law Degree (GDL or equivalent)
Experience in a law firm and/or in-house, preferably with some European and/or US exposure
Privacy qualification is a plus
Knowledge/Experience/Skills/Abilities
General experience with commercial contracts (drafting & negotiating)
Privacy and data protection experience, ideally supporting GDPR compliance
Excellent written and communication skills (English), attention to detail & research skills
Knowledge of other languages is a plus
Project management experience is a plus
Good understanding of online technologies
Positive, proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused, with a willingness to get things done.
Collaborative, able to prioritise and comfortable taking ownership of matters.
Your Platform
At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.
Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources and Finance.
Our office is based in Soho, the cultural heart of London’s West End with a vast array of classic record shops and leading film companies, media offices and great restaurants. Regent’s Park is close enough for a lunchtime run, as are the delights of Piccadilly Circus and the shopping mecca of Oxford Street. It is conveniently walking distance from a number of London tube stations and mainline train stations and…