Legal Manager, Deezer
Corporate
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
Audio streaming platform
Open for applications
Audio streaming platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.
Role
Who you are
- Master degree in a Legal related field
- 2-3 years of experience in corporate law, business law/M&A and/or compliance law (ideally with an experience in a law firm)
- Autonomous, adaptable, pro-active and curious
What the job involves
- The Legal Corporate & Compliance team is in charge of overseeing and managing the legal affairs related to Corporate and Compliance matters, and therefore participating & mitigating the risk management for the Deezer group
- You will join a team of 4 and report directly to the VP, Legal Corporate & Compliance
- Compliance matters:
- Implementation and execution of the compliance program for the Deezer group
- Management of compliance requests (KYC) from our suppliers
- Corporate/ M&A:
- Legal management of Deezer S.A. and the group's subsidiaries (including preparation of meetings of the board of directors and general meetings of shareholders, social formalities, etc.)
- Management of the group's insurance policies (including negotiation and renewal of coverage with insurance companies); management of the group's French and foreign lease contracts
- Assistance in the preparation of financial reports (in particular the group's annual report) and in legal aspects relating to securities law (in particular, corporate governance and regulatory matters, but also capital market operations, including the issuance of shares) and to business law (in particular, M&A operations)
- Others:
- Coordination of relations with the team's various external service providers in France and abroad (lawyers, notaries, formalists, translators, etc.)
- Assistance to other operational teams in the group according to their needs; monitoring management and legal research
Our take
Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.
Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.
There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2018
$168.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2016
$105.2m
SERIES E
Total funding: $512m
Company benefits
- Start-up environment and philosophy
- Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
- In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
- Hackathons & meetups
- Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
- A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
- Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
- An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
- Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
- A Deezer premium family account for free
- Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
- Meal vouchers
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Articles
Leadership
Jeronimo Folgueira
(CEO)Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.
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