Legal Counsel, Digital
- Recruiter
- Third Way Legal
- Location
- London (Central)
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Posted
- 20 Mar 2018
- Closes
- 03 Apr 2018
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Commercial Contracts, Information Technology
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
An innovative US-headquartered ad-tech business is looking to hire an additional lawyer to bolster it’s European legal team, based in Central London.
Reporting to the Lead lawyer for EMEA and AsiaPac territory, the Legal Counsel will be responsible for a wide range of legal issues, but with a predominant focus on drafting, reviewing and negotiate customer agreements, licensing, and data processing agreements for a range of local and global clients including digital advertisers, agencies and publishers. Additional responsibilities will include supporting on new market entry issues (including regulatory reviews and analysis) and supporting the initial roll-out and running of compliance programmes, including competition law, privacy and data protection law, anti-bribery laws and labor and employment regulations.
The successful candidate will be a qualified lawyer with a minimum of 3 years’ post-qualification experience in software and/or IT services. Experience with advertising technology (eg ad exchanges, programmatic trading) and online advertising is strongly preferred. This is a role that comes with substantial autonomy and business exposure, so you must be comfortable working closely with sales teams and senior stakeholders across finance, marketing and HR.