Associate Legal Counsel

This is a fantastic opportunity for an Associate Legal Counsel to play a key role at the heart of a fast-moving, high-growth business. Reporting to the VP Legal, Spain, you’ll support a broad range of commercial activities across the Spanish market, tackling everything from day-to-day legal queries to more complex matters with confidence and impact.

In this role, you’ll go beyond pure legal support—acting as a true business partner, delivering clear, commercially focused advice, driving contract negotiations, and helping shape key projects alongside cross-functional teams. You’ll be instrumental in managing legal risk while enabling innovation and growth in a dynamic, content-driven environment.

We’re looking for a qualified lawyer with around 3 years’ experience in an international law firm or in-house, ideally within media, tech, or audiovisual sectors. A strong command of English (written and spoken) is essential.

This role will be based in our Madrid office.

Please note, our Talent Acquisition team and some Hiring teams are based in the UK so parts of the recruitment process will be in English. Please also upload your resume in English, thanks!

By joining DAZN, you will be part of a company that has earned the Great Place to Work certification, a recognition we’ve achieved thanks to the commitment and professionalism of everyone at DAZN Spain. This certification reflects the exceptional environment we've built together, where employee well-being is a top priority. At DAZN, we take pride in being an excellent place to work, as confirmed by the experiences and feedback of our team members.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Draft, review, and negotiate sports rights, tech, and commercial partnership agreements

• Support development of legal templates, precedents, and internal policies

• Advise on antitrust, consumer protection, privacy, and fair competition matters

• Handle copyright licensing and broader IP/IT and media-related legal issues

• Stay informed on telecoms regulation, public authorities (e.g. CNMC), and industry trends

• Identify and assess legal/commercial risks, escalating when needed

• Provide practical risk mitigation strategies and support implementation

• Follow internal legal processes and help improve efficiency and consistency

• Deliver clear, timely legal advice to business teams

• Build strong relationships with cross-functional and international stakeholders

• Manage workload independently with appropriate senior oversight

• Ensure high-quality, consistent contract drafting and quick turnaround times

• Develop expertise in key business areas and demonstrate growing autonomy

What You'll Bring:

• Strong legal drafting and review skills for standard agreements with good understanding of key commercial contract principles.

• Effective communication and stakeholder management with an ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences

• Ability to follow established workflows and maintain consistency whilst identifying opportunities for improvement

• Ideally some post-qualification experience (PQE) in a [corporate] legal environment, but NQs also considered.

• Spanish Law degree and relevant professional qualification.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, medical insurance fully funded by the company provided by Cigna (including access to a medical chart, premium hospitals and a reimbursement policy), Cobee flexible compensation policy: 180€ every month to be used on a range of social benefits, refer a friend scheme, learning and development resources, opportunity for hybrid working and access to our internal speaker series and events.