Associate Corporate Counsel, PlayStation
Marketing & Advertising
$181-271.6k
2 days a week in office
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Be an early applicant
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$181-271.6k
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years of legal practice, particularly working as in-house counsel in an interactive entertainment or technology company
- JD or LLM degree from top law school; admitted to a U.S. state bar. California State Bar membership is preferred. At a minimum, the candidate must be qualified for and quickly obtain Registered In-House Counsel status in California and the willingness to maintain that status during employment
- Experience advising business teams and drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts
- Working knowledge of marketing and advertising laws
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good judgment and strong analytical skills
What the job involves
- Join PlayStation as Associate Corporate Counsel for the marketing and advertising legal team and be at the forefront of shaping the future of entertainment!
- In this role, you'll provide legal support for SIE’s global marketing team in connection with the marketing and advertising of the PlayStation brand, and its wide array of gaming and entertainment related products and services, including hardware, peripherals, video games and subscription services
- You will provide counseling and transactional support to marketing teams to assist them with their initiatives, as part of a global legal team
- Work with a team of lawyers and paralegals to review marketing campaigns and related materials (including video commercials, print advertisements, social media postings, website pages, toolkits, blog postings, and press releases), to provide timely and nuanced legal advice to marketing teams in connection with claims substantiation, truth-in-advertising, regulatory compliance, intellectual property clearance, and related advertising law issues
- Draft and negotiate marketing-related contracts, including advertising agency agreements, vendor production agreements, creative services agreements, and non-disclosure agreements, as well as vendor contracts to support the global customer experience team
- Advise on global prize promotions, including drafting rules for sweepstakes and contests and reviewing related online advertising
- Understand and stay up to date on the latest legal developments related to marketing, advertising, and proactively advise the business of relevant legal developments
- Identify areas where PlayStation’s internal legal processes can be improved to better support the Global Marketing Organization, and work with internal stakeholders to drive those changes forward
- Develop legal guidelines and provide training to marketing teams
- Collaborate with counterparts in other SIE regions, including the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan to anticipate and address challenges related to the Global Marketing Organization, and to identify and resolve issues
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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