Associate Director, Legal (Privacy)

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Job Title: Associate Director, Legal (Privacy)

Department: Legal

Reporting to: Head of Legal, King

Location: Office based (Soho, London) & hybrid work from home.

Activision Blizzard King seeks an Associate Director, Legal (Privacy) to join our Legal and privacy 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 Legal Privacy Team, based in London, 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 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 and marketing & advertising teams) to ensure privacy compliance, and advise them on innovative privacy challenges.
• 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/TRA)
• Prepare, maintain and update privacy documentation, including data protection agreements, standard contractual clauses, and internal policies
• Apply a risk-based approach to data protection reviews and guidance
• Keep up to date with changes in laws, regulations and guidelines across the EMEA region and beyond that may impact the design, development and marketing of our products and services
• Serve as a senior adviser for Customer Support when responding to customers queries related to privacy
• Prepare and deliver privacy & data protection training when needed
• Support the EMEA legal team in improving processes, efficiency, compliance framework and standard methodologies and support the team in responding to privacy  queries.
• Manage & support privacy legal counsel role

Player Profile

Experience

• PQE 7+ (or equivalent), with experience gained in a similar role, either in a law firm and/or in house, with significant exposure to data protection and privacy issues in Europe.
• Experience and knowledge of UK and European laws
• Strong experience advising on data protection & privacy requirements, with an emphasis on use of EU/UK data in a sophisticated market scenarios              

Knowledge & Skills

• Qualified to practice law in the UK or equivalent
• Excellent attention to detail, written & communication skills (English)
• Good understanding of online technologies and their privacy implications
• Strong organizational skills, with an ability to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues quickly and effectively in a sophisticated organisation
• Ability to manage varied workload through proper work balance, prioritisation and delegation.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to 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
• Positive attitude
• Pragmatic and curious thinker, not afraid to work outside the box
• Great commercial awareness   

Extra Points:

• Prior experience in the Tech, mobile, video game and/or entertainment industry is appreciated
• CIPP/E accreditation preferred or any similar data protection practitioner certificate
• Knowledge of OneTrust software 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.

To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on X at @ATVI_AB

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thanks for your interest.