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Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial

Voodoo is a Tech company that creates and publishes hyper-casual and casual mobile games for a wide audience. It is the worldwide leader in the mobile game market through snackable, innovative, and creative content combining data and new technologies.

The company raised $200M in 2018. More recently, Tencent has become a minority stakeholder in Voodoo, with a role in framing our strategy to dominate the Asia Pacific region.

#1 worldwide in mobile game downloads, and regularly at the top of the App Store rankings, our games have about 300 million monthly active users and more than 5 billion downloads since our creation. Voodoo is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having multiplied its turnover by 5 over the past few years.

With more than 400 employees around the world, we would love you to apply to join an ambitious, innovative and international company!

As Senior Legal Counsel in the Commercial/IP team, your role entails acting as a business partner with/for the operation teams to fulfill their business and legal needs by handling contractual matters for the publishing, marketing, product and partnership teams. Your experience in IP will also help bolster the company’s asset-protection strategy.

Main challenges:

• Negotiate, draft and/or review a variety of commercial agreements for the publishing, marketing, partnerships, tech and product teams, including publishing and licensing agreements, user acquisition and monetization agreements, and/or service agreements.
• Have the capacity to truly understand the company’s business needs and the market in which the deals are made to mitigate risk and ensure our assets are protected.
• Contribute to a more efficient, knowledge-driven contractual process that will allow the legal team to deliver faster.
Impact:
• You will participate in challenging and innovative deals, and promote efficiency in contract negotiation.
• You will ensure that Voodoo’s contracts with its partners are business-oriented yet as solid as possible from a legal standpoint.
• You will promote trust between the legal and operations team and contribute to the legal team being seen as a business partner.

What do we expect?

• Minimum seven years of relevant professional experience (interships not included)
• Experience in IT/IP/Media and Entertainment/Tech or Ad Tech. Prior experience in a law firm is highly preferable
• Strong knowledge of IP law (copyright, trademarks, designs) will be highly considered
• Fluency in English and French required
• Business-oriented, creative, and full of initiative
• Capacity to work with operational teams and deliver fast
• Constant search for excellence in the work that you do
• Collaborative team player with an ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment

Nice to have:

• Fluency or proficiency in another language where Voodoo’s business is present
• Prior experience in gaming or a tech company (ad tech, entertainment, social media)
• Experience in both France and another jurisdiction (notably a common law country) will be highly considered

You will work closely with a senior team member and the general counsel. You'll be part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You will be part of a collaborative team that is ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and willing to go the extra mile.