Senior Legal Counsel
Relax Gaming is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join its legal team. The role involves providing proactive legal advice across a broad range of business matters, including corporate governance, commercial, software licensing, intellectual property, and data protection issues.
The Senior Legal Counsel will report to the General Counsel and collaborate closely with product, marketing, finance, compliance, and IT teams. The primary objective is to identify legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate them while supporting the company's business objectives. This position is based in one of three locations: Isle of Man, Malta, or Gibraltar.
- Provide proactive legal advice on a wide range of business matters, covering corporate, commercial, intellectual property, licensing and data protection issues.
- Identify legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate them while supporting business objectives.
- Draft and review various commercial agreements, including software licensing agreements, vendor agreements, data processing agreements and partnership deals.
- Ensure contracts comply with legal and regulatory requirements while protecting the company’s interests.
- Manage contract disputes and assist in resolution strategies and dealing with any other post-contractual legal issues that may arise.
- Support corporate governance matters, including the drafting of resolutions and internal policies.
- Develop and implement internal legal policies and support the development and delivery of legal training programs to promote best practices across the organisation and to manage legal risks.
- Assist with updating and creating legal templates.
- Work closely with Product, Marketing, Compliance, Commercial, Finance and IT/Security teams to ensure alignment in new product launches and business initiatives and adherence to industry standards and best business practices.
- Support and advise the business in data protection and privacy matters.
- Assist with any additional tasks according to the needs of the company.
- Qualified solicitor/lawyer/advocate with at least 6 years PQE either in-house or within a private practice law firm, with corporate commercial and data privacy experience (required).
- Analytical, with a creative, hands-on and pragmatic mindset (required).
- Self-driven with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them through to completion, while prioritising workload accordingly (required).
- A positive team player with strong communication skills and who enjoys a multicultural and multinational environment (required).
- Motivated and proactive with a desire to learn, and with a keen eye and attention to detail (required).
- Uphold a high standard of work ethic, always ensuring to complete assigned tasks accurately and in a timely manner (required).
- Excellent contract negotiation, drafting, communication, risk assessment and legal advisory skills (required).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth industry and to manage multiple legal priorities, and to prioritise competing workloads and tight deadlines (required).
- Strong business acumen and the ability to support commercial strategy while managing legal risks (required).
- High level of independence and accountability and are able to act under limited supervision (required).
- Exposure to the gaming and technology industries (nice-to-have).
- Join a passionate team and organisation that values quality, innovation, and people.
- A creative environment where ideas matter and wins are celebrated collectively.
- Endless opportunities to develop, learn, and push beyond boundaries.
- A company that’s scaling fast, but still keeps it human, flexible, and fun.
Relax Gaming is a business-to-business iGaming supplier and content aggregator, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Malta. It develops its own slots, poker and bingo products and distributes thousands of third-party casino games through its Silver Bullet and Powered By partner programmes. Owned by the Kindred Group (now part of FDJ United), the company runs game studios in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Malmö and Stockholm, with additional offices across Europe and Gibraltar. Relax Gaming supplies regulated online casino operators worldwide.