Corporate Counsel

Job Description

• As ZURU's business and overall impact will grow significantly over the next months and years in the U.S. and globally, we are further building out our legal team to support this growth. You will join our global legal team to protect ZURU from litigation, regulatory, and contractual damage risks. You will navigate, litigate, and resolve disputes with various bodies. • You will provide legal support across a broad range of issues to ZURU globally, ultimately responsible for ensuring that ZURU conducts its business in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school, and license to practice in applicable state. • Minimum 3 years’ experience as an attorney. • Contract review and drafting. • Intellectual property prosecution, strategy, review, and implementation. • Knowledge of regulatory and compliance issues affecting consumer products and toys. • Strong negotiating skills with both legal and financial/commercial issues. • An ability to assess and evaluate a broad range of legal issues and risks and provide commercially focussed practical legal advice. • A natural ability and desire to work collaboratively with our team and business partners. • Excellent communication skills and ability to engage at all levels of the organisation.

Benefits

• Provide legal support for global marketing, sales, product design and development, concept acquisition and creative services groups. • Counsel on a broad range of legal issues, including licensing, marketing, advertising, promotions, social media, privacy, regulatory and compliance matters, contract interpretation. • Advise the business regarding regulatory and compliance issues affecting consumer products and toys. • Negotiate and draft a variety of contracts, including in-licenses with inventors and entertainment companies, marketing and promotions agreements. • Assist with intellectual property prosecution, acquisition, and strategy. Assist with litigation matters relating to intellectual property. • Review and advise on product development, product packaging, and all manner of advertising and marketing materials, including television commercials, print ads, digital media campaigns, contests, sweepstakes and other promotions. • Coordinate with internal legal and non-legal resources as necessary to address legal and business issues; manage external legal resources. • Work directly with and advise on legal issues succinctly to senior executives. • Provide internal education and training on relevant legal issues • Provide legal support and advice on licencing of brands. • Advise on legal aspects of company structuring (in partnership with the Tax team) • Participate in the definition and development of corporate policies, procedures and programs