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Senior Legal Counsel
1 year ago
Madbox is a mobile gaming company, creating and publishing its own games worldwide. Since 2018 Madbox has gathered more than 300 million players, still growing. We are looking for top talents with mad skills, a mad passion and a mad ambition to join us.
Madbox is a fast-growing mobile gaming company with a very unique way of developing games. Everything has been made for teams to take as much ownership as possible, unleash their creativity, bring performance, and have as much fun as possible.
In July 2022, we launched our Pocket Champs game worldwide which quickly became one of the top-grossing games in its category. We are now entering a new era where we aim at becoming the next Gaming Hit Factory.
Today, we’ve around 80 talents in France and Spain united around four core values:
- Explore together
- Learn fast
- Be thoughtfully candid
- Share (Y)our Journey
To support our growth, we’re now looking for a Legal Counsel to support our Legal department’s mission: Make MadBox a safe house to let creativity shine!
What will you do ?
- You’ll join MadBox’s Head of Legal to work closely with all teams across our company. Your role will focus on 3 pillars:
Ecosystem
- you will handle the business contract drafting and review
- you will be in charge of managing and enforcing our studio’s IP
- you will assist with the legal aspects of potential M&A transactions or potential further fundraising
People
- you’ll be in charge of the legal aspects of our Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) and the onboarding of the beneficiaries
- you’ll be in charge of the legal aspects of HR-related topics
Players
- you will handle our GDPR compliance along with our Data and Automation teams
Additionally, the business-as-usual topic would cover:
- oversee the corporate milestones (in both France and Spain) and work hand-in-hand with our external counsels
- assist Finance, HR, Operations, Production, and Office Management teams with their day-to-day legal queries
- handle a great variety of topics in a fast-evolving industry
Madskills required
- You have 6 years of experience in business law, IP law, or tax law (not counting internships)
- You apply your legal skills in a practical and business way
- Fluent in English and French ( mandatory) with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Willingness to have a 360° role
- Willingness to learn
- Willingness to have an impact on your team, the company, and - hopefully - the industry
- Impeccable organization, time and priorities management
- Ability to work within tight deadlines, adjust changes in priorities, and balance short-term needs with long-term strategic initiatives
- Ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers in a short and impactful way, and enjoy making “legal stuff” approachable
- Curiosity for the video game or entertainment industry
- A team player with a positive and humble attitude
Nice to have
- French Bar exam
- Interest in Legal Automation
- Coding skills
- Third fluent language
What do we offer ?
- A competitive compensation, a transparent grid shared for each Madboxer to allow frequent evolutions
- Team profit sharing as it will always be a collective success, we share what we create all together
- Private medical cover, because your health should always come first
- Lunch coupons - joining Madbox means joining a group of foodies
- Regular team events where you will discover where the "mad" of Madbox comes from !
- Remote policy : 3 days at the office, 2 days at home (every week you can choose the day you want to work remotely)
Our Recruiting Process:
- A first call with our Recruiter
- A call with our Head of Legal
- Home Assignment
- An interview with our Head of Legal to debrief your test
- An interview with two Madboxers of the HR team
- Final interview with one of our co-founders
- NB: Offers are usually sent within 48h after the last interview
Madbox is a fast-growing mobile game company based in Paris and Barcelona, creating and publishing its own games. The story of Madbox started when two video game studios fell in love with each other during the summer 2018.
A few months after the beginning of this promance , Madbox first in-house titles hit the top charts of the App Store and Google Play Store worldwide, ranking in #1 positions in more than 100 countries. Since then, Madbox has gathered more than 300 million players, still growing fast. To fuel this creative and operations growth, Madbox develops cutting-edge automation systems internally to shorten production times and drive accurately its performance at large scale.
Madbox will collect your personal data for the purposes of managing our recruitment related activities. That is why, Madbox may use your personal data in relation to the evaluation and selection of applicants. Your information will be accessible to recruiting & people teams in Paris & Barcelona. By applying, you expressly give your consent.
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