[Hiring] Commercial Counsel @ScorePlay

Role Description

ScorePlay signs deals with some of the biggest organizations in sports, and every one of them starts with a contract. We are hiring a Commercial Contracts Counsel to own that: redlines, negotiations, signatures, the whole thing. You work directly with Lou, our General Counsel, and are the first point of contact for Sales on contracts.

What you will do

• Contracts:
  • You review, redline and negotiate the agreements that close our deals: MSAs, service agreements, order forms, SOWs, NDAs and DPAs, with clubs, leagues, federations, broadcasters and brands, often across several countries.
  • Sales comes to you when a deal is stuck on terms, and your job is to unstick it: fast turnaround, pragmatic fallbacks, and the judgement to know when a point is worth holding.
  • You partner with Sales, Finance, RevOps and Customer Success so contract terms match how the deal is actually priced, booked and delivered.
  • You take a share of vendor and partner agreements alongside Lou, split based on what is moving and where you want to build depth.
• Tools, processes and enablement:
  • We use AI heavily in contract work: drafting, first-pass reviews, summarizing counterparty terms. We want someone who genuinely enjoys this and keeps looking for a smarter way to handle the repetitive part.
  • Our legal playbook is young. You execute it, then you help Lou refine it with what you see in real negotiations.
• Privacy and security:
  • You contribute to customer security, privacy and vendor due-diligence questionnaires, and to DPA and international transfer questions. The heart of the role is contracts, with room to grow into broader compliance work if that interests you.

Qualifications

• You know commercial contracts inside out.
• 3 to 5 years of experience, most of it in-house, with contracts at the core of what you did.
• You work autonomously.
• You ship fast.
• You're resourceful.
• You like helping people win.
• You're excited by AI.

Benefits

• You negotiate international contracts with some of the biggest names in sports: clubs, leagues, federations and broadcasters on every continent.
• As our first commercial counsel, you own your function and you're the main partner of the Sales team on both sides of the Atlantic.
• You sit in sales calls with senior stakeholders at major sports organizations, on deals worth USD 50k to 500k a year. When a deal closes, you're usually one of the key players who made it work.
• Small team, short loops. You'll have the opportunity to bring ideas to the table, build playbooks, experiment with AI and new tools, and learn a ton along the way.
• We know many people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every single requirement on a job description. If you’re interested in ScorePlay but not sure you tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, this could be the start of a great long-term collaboration.