Legal Counsel – Commercial Contracts
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What you'll do
- You review, redline and negotiate the agreements that close our deals: MSAs, service agreements, order forms, SOWs, NDAs and DPAs, with clubs, leagues, federations, broadcasters and brands, often across several countries.
- Sales comes to you when a deal is stuck on terms, and your job is to unstick it: fast turnaround, pragmatic fallbacks, and the judgement to know when a point is worth holding.
- You partner with Sales, Finance, RevOps and Customer Success so contract terms match how the deal is actually priced, booked and delivered.
- You take a share of vendor and partner agreements alongside Lou, split based on what is moving and where you want to build depth.
- We use AI heavily in contract work: drafting, first-pass reviews, summarizing counterparty terms. We want someone who genuinely enjoys this and keeps looking for a smarter way to handle the repetitive part.
- Our legal playbook is young. You execute it, then you help Lou refine it with what you see in real negotiations.
- You contribute to customer security, privacy and vendor due-diligence questionnaires, and to DPA and international transfer questions. The heart of the role is contracts, with room to grow into broader compliance work if that interests you.
What they're looking for
- You know commercial contracts inside out. 3 to 5 years of experience, most of it in-house, with contracts at the core of what you did.
- You work autonomously. Give you an MSA or a set of customer redlines and you come back with a position, a fallback and a recommendation.
- You ship fast. A solid answer today beats a perfect one on Friday, and you're comfortable making the call at 80% certainty.
- You're resourceful. When something is unclear, you dig, you ask, you find a way, rather than waiting for perfect instructions.
- You like helping people win. Supporting a Sales team means being responsive, available, and genuinely happy when a deal signs because of your work.
- You're excited by AI. You already use it in your legal work, or you can't wait to, and you keep looking for smarter ways to handle the repetitive parts.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
ScorePlay is the AI-powered media infrastructure for sports, built to automate the content operations behind the world's biggest sports organizations. We work with 300+ leagues, competitions, teams and broadcasters – including Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs, NBA and NFL teams, the Tour de France, the Australian Open, and leading bodies like UEFA and FIBA – helping them turn every moment on and off the field into high-value, structured content. Our platform brings all their media into one place and makes it effortless to find, edit and share in seconds.
Founded in 2021, we’re a 50-person team based between New York and Paris, growing 2x year over year with 98% retention. We’ve raised $20M+ from top investors including Alexis Ohanian and Harry Stebbing’s 20VC and elite athletes like Kevin Durant, Raphaël Varane, Mario Götze, Nico Rosberg and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
If you’re passionate about sports and thrive in fast-paced environments - and you want to help shape how the next generation of fans experience sports, you’re in the right place. We’re on track to become the global leader in sports media, and this is definitely the best time to join our adventure.
Location: Hybrid from Paris or full remote
Role Overview
ScorePlay signs deals with some of the biggest organizations in sports, and every one of them starts with a contract. We are hiring a Commercial Contracts Counsel to own that: redlines, negotiations, signatures, the whole thing. You work directly with Lou, our General Counsel, and are the first point of contact for Sales on contracts.
What you will do
1. Contracts
You review, redline and negotiate the agreements that close our deals: MSAs, service agreements, order forms, SOWs, NDAs and DPAs, with clubs, leagues, federations, broadcasters and brands, often across several countries.
Sales comes to you when a deal is stuck on terms, and your job is to unstick it: fast turnaround, pragmatic fallbacks, and the judgement to know when a point is worth holding.
You partner with Sales, Finance, RevOps and Customer Success so contract terms match how the deal is actually priced, booked and delivered.
You take a share of vendor and partner agreements alongside Lou, split based on what is moving and where you want to build depth.
2. Tools, processes and enablement
We use AI heavily in contract work: drafting, first-pass reviews, summarizing counterparty terms. We want someone who genuinely enjoys this and keeps looking for a smarter way to handle the repetitive part.
Our legal playbook is young. You execute it, then you help Lou refine it with what you see in real negotiations.
3. Privacy and security
You contribute to customer security, privacy and vendor due-diligence questionnaires, and to DPA and international transfer questions. The heart of the role is contracts, with room to grow into broader compliance work if that interests you.
What we are looking for
You know commercial contracts inside out. 3 to 5 years of experience, most of it in-house, with contracts at the core of what you did.
You work autonomously. Give you an MSA or a set of customer redlines and you come back with a position, a fallback and a recommendation.
You ship fast. A solid answer today beats a perfect one on Friday, and you're comfortable making the call at 80% certainty.
You're resourceful. When something is unclear, you dig, you ask, you find a way, rather than waiting for perfect instructions.
You like helping people win. Supporting a Sales team means being responsive, available, and genuinely happy when a deal signs because of your work.
You're excited by AI. You already use it in your legal work, or you can't wait to, and you keep looking for smarter ways to handle the repetitive parts.
What’s fun about this role
You negotiate international contracts with some of the biggest names in sports: clubs, leagues, federations and broadcasters on every continent.
As our first commercial counsel, you own your function and you're the main partner of the Sales team on both sides of the Atlantic.
You sit in sales calls with senior stakeholders at major sports organizations, on deals worth USD 50k to 500k a year. When a deal closes, you're usually one of the key players who made it work.
Small team, short loops. You'll have the opportunity to bring ideas to the table, build playbooks, experiment with AI and new tools, and learn a ton along the way.
We know many people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every single requirement on a job description. If you’re interested in ScorePlay but not sure you tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, this could be the start of a great long-term collaboration.
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