Legal Director, Privacy I Global I Activision Blizzard King

Job Description :

Activision Blizzard King seeks a Director to join our legal team to have a significant impact on our global privacy program. You’ll work with multiple partners, products, services and franchises across the group and will help us maintain and improve our world-class privacy standards.

Your Mission

As a valued member of our cross-group Privacy Legal Team you will play a key role in driving the improvement and implementation of our global privacy program across ABK, covering King globally and Activision Blizzard in EMEA, LATAM and ANZ.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities :

Lead various global privacy projects to ensure compliance with new privacy and digital safety laws and regulations in different parts of the business, including games and marketing

Collaborate with international cross-functional teams on a variety of products and services (games, shared & central tech, marketing and advertising / adtech teams) to ensure privacy compliance, and advise them on emerging privacy and digital safety challenges and requirements, including minor protection

Serve as ABK’s Data Protection Officer (DPO), with responsibility for all DPO tasks as defined in the GDPR and other privacy laws and regulations

Apply a risk-based approach to privacy and digital safety reviews and guidance

Drive improvements to processes, compliance frameworks and standard methodologies within the privacy legal team and across the broader legal organisation

Prepare, maintain and update privacy documentation, including data protection agreements, standard contractual clauses, and internal policies

Recognising the broad geographic coverage of the role, keep up to date with changes in privacy and digital safety laws, regulations and guidelines across the EMEA region and beyond that may impact the design, development and marketing of our products and services

Manage the group’s GDPR compliance program, including records of data processing activities (ROPA) and various privacy risk assessments including AI, data protection impact assessments (DPIA), legitimate interest assessments (LIA) and transfer impact assessments (TIA)

Prepare and deliver training on privacy and digital safety regulations as needed

Support the EMEA legal team in improving processes, efficiency, compliance framework and standard methodologies and support and oversee the team in the handling of privacy and digital safety related inquiries from customers and regulators

Partner with Activision and Blizzard privacy legal teams as well as legal teams and stakeholders across Microsoft and its Gaming business, including Xbox and ZeniMax Media, to ensure consistency and alignment in the privacy and digital safety domains

Contribute to public policy work as an expert on privacy and digital safety

Manage and oversee our EMEA privacy legal team, with a mix of direct and dotted-line reports

Player Profile

Experience

PQE 8+ (or equivalent) with experience gained in a similar role, preferably including in-house, and with significant exposure to data protection and privacy regulations in Europe and preferably digital safety and / or platform regulations

Experience and knowledge of UK and European laws; US is a bonus

Strong experience advising on data protection and privacy and digital safety requirements in sophisticated market scenarios

Knowledge & Skills

Qualified to practice law in the UK or equivalent qualifications in another relevant jurisdiction

Excellent attention to detail, written & communication skills (English)

Good understanding of online technologies and their privacy and digital safety implications

Strong organizational skills, with an ability to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues quickly and effectively in a complex, fast-moving organisation

Ability to manage varied workload through proper work balance, prioritisation and delegation

Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organisation and across group legal teams

Personal Attributes

Full commitment to the position and a passion for privacy and digital safety

Positive attitude with a bias towards action

Pragmatic and curious thinker, not afraid to work outside the box

Great commercial awareness

Extra

Prior experience working in the mobile or video game industry or in tech or entertainment is highly appreciated

CIPP / E and / or CIPM accreditation or similar preferred

Familiarity with privacy management software (e.g. OneTrust) and content moderation solutions (e.g. Community Sift) a plus

Knowledge of other languages a plus

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide. Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

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.