Commercial & Privacy Paralegal | 12 month FTC

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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 has a well-stocked kitchen and free on-site gym.

Want to learn more? Check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on X at @ATVI_AB!

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

About Us

Blizzard Entertainment® is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.