Counsel, Trust & Safety

Full Time
London, UK
2 months ago
Who We Are:

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. The Company develops and publishes products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, Private Division, and Zynga. Our products are currently designed for console gaming systems, PC, and Mobile, including smartphones and tablets, and are delivered through physical retail, digital download, online platforms, and cloud streaming services. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO.

While our offices (physical and virtual) are casual and inviting, we are deeply committed to our core tenets of creativity, innovation and efficiency, and individual and team development opportunities. Our industry and business are continually evolving and fast-paced, providing numerous opportunities to learn and hone your skills. We work hard, but we also like to have fun, and believe that we provide a great place to come to work each day to pursue your passions.

 

The Challenge:

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., a leading interactive entertainment company, seeks a product counsel to join its Product & Publishing legal team with a focus on trust and safety and age appropriate design. This is an opportunity to join a highly-motivated team and to work with multiple game labels across the company to support our industry-leading products to foster safe, welcoming environments for our players. This is a hybrid in-person position that will operate out of Take-Two’s offices located in either in the Bay Area, California; New York City; or London. The selected candidate will support teams located in North American and Western European time zones.

What You’ll Take On:
  • Serve as product counsel for Take-Two’s publishing labels, assisting in providing legal advice to leadership on strategic and operational matters with specific focus on trust and safety, minor safety, and age appropriate design.
  • Develop strong relationships with key partners across Trust & Safety, Security, Privacy, Product & Publishing, and collaborate to create and maintain internal legal trainings, policies, and guidelines.
  • Stay up to date on current and emerging legislation, industry standard processes, and threats related to trust and safety, minor safety, and age appropriate design.
  • Review blocking issues from internal Security, Customer Support, and Trust & Safety teams while exercising sound judgment to make prompt, concise, reasoned recommendations to high-level partners.
  • Engage with industry trade associations on matters of public policy and government affairs, contribute to industry-wide initiatives and submissions, and advocate for take-Two’s public policy priorities.
What You Bring:
  • Commercially minded lawyer with 5-8 years of experience, ideally in the consumer or technology space, mobile, or entertainment industries. Strong preference given to candidates who have in-house experience.
  • Working knowledge of online safety, content moderation, consumer protection, and privacy laws. Preference given to candidates with experience in advising on:
    • U.S. and international content regulations, including California Age-Appropriate Design Codes, EU Digital Services Act, and UK Online Safety Act; and/or
    • Implementing safety-, privacy-, and/or security-by-design processes.
  • Must possess keen intellect, attention to detail, excellent communication and decision making skills, and the ability to influence and interact at all levels of the organization.
  • Must be willing and able to work as part of a team dealing with urgent, confidential and highly-sensitive subject matter.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and a strong ability to balance multiple matters simultaneously and appropriately prioritize projects.
  • Genuine desire and enthusiasm to work in the video games industry; must be a great teammate with common sense, kindness, good humor, and dedication to succeeding together.  
  • Must provide certificate of good standing from the State Bar (issues within 90 days applying).
What We Offer You:
  • Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
  • Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
  • Work Hard, Play Hard. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles – through corporate boot camp classes, our onsite Gym, company parties, our Office bar, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
  • Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to Private healthcare, Private dental, A double matching pension policy where the employer will double match up to a 4% contribution from the employee, Employee stock purchase scheme with a 15% discount, Eye tests and vouchers towards glasses, Cycle to work scheme, Flu vouchers, Annual health, 4X death in service insurance, Income protection (66% salary), Workplace Savings, 26 days holiday, Enhanced Family friendly policies + other great perks and great office facilities!
  • Perks. Fitness reimbursement up to £50 per month, an onsite Gym, an Office bar, employee discount programs, free games & events, stocked pantries and a dog friendly workplace.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and its affiliates and group companies (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, colour, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Please be aware that Take-Two does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Take-Two also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and the Company will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing exercise. Take-Two’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a take2games.com email domain). If you need to report an issue or otherwise have questions, please contact Careers@take2games.com.