Associate Legal Counsel
Hutch, United Kingdom

Associate Legal Counsel | London | Part Time | 12 month FTC

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer amp; publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy. Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Associate Legal Counsel | Part Time (2-3 days) | 12 month FTC

Hutch is now looking for a lawyer to join our Legal and Compliance team as Legal Counsel. The role has a broadly commercial remit with a technology focus and you would be assisting the Head of Legal and working alongside our Data Protection Assistant to support teams across the business including Marketing, Product, Licensing, Brand and Finance. This role will provide exposure to interesting work at all levels at an exciting time in the company’s trajectory. This is a newly created role, and as such there is the potential for this to become permanent.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft and negotiate a range of commercial contracts with vendors, suppliers and other partners.
• Provide legal advice and practical guidance to the teams on the above as well as on ad hoc matters as and when they arise.
• Develop and foster relationships throughout the business and become a go-to for first-point legal enquiries.
• Draft and maintain standard templates and other legal resources.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance personnel at our sister companies.
• Help manage instructions to and advice received from our external legal counsel.

Requirements

You will be:

• a qualified lawyer in England amp; Wales with at least 1 year of post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house legal role.
• collaborative and at the same time confident working with a degree of autonomy as need dictates.
• pragmatic and understand the need to balance legal risk with commerciality.
• a strong communicator who can tailor for their audience both in conversation and in writing.
• detail-oriented but able to see the bigger picture.

Bonus Points

• Prior in-house experience
• Experience of ad-tech and/or SaaS agreements
• Experience of working in or with a start-up or scale-up environment
• An understanding of or broad interest in regulatory matters (for example, data protection and loot boxes) and/or intellectual property.

Benefits

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Flexible working hours
• Excellent salaries
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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