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Legal Operations Executive
Department: 32-882 - Legal - Corporate
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Reporting To: James Cooper
Description
DAZN is transforming the way the world watches sport, delivering premium live and on-demand experiences to millions of fans globally. Behind the scenes, our Legal Team plays a critical role in enabling the business to operate efficiently, manage risk effectively, and support growth across multiple markets. As a Legal Operations Executive, you'll be at the heart of the team's day-to-day operations, helping to drive efficiency, consistency, and compliance across legal processes and workflows. This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced international business where you'll collaborate with stakeholders across functions and jurisdictions, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and play a key role in supporting one of the world's leading sports entertainment platforms.
As a Legal Operations Executive, you will provide comprehensive administrative and operational support to DAZN's Legal Team, ensuring the smooth and efficient management of legal processes, documentation, governance activities, and financial administration. Acting as a central point of coordination, you'll support legal workflows from initiation through to completion, maintain accurate records and reporting, and oversee key operational processes including contract execution, invoice management, and approvals tracking. You'll work closely with lawyers, business stakeholders, finance teams, and external legal providers to ensure information flows efficiently and legal operations are delivered to a consistently high standard.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Managing day-to-day legal administration, including matter tracking, approvals monitoring, and status reporting
- Coordinating contract execution processes and liaising with stakeholders to ensure timely completion of documentation
- Taking ownership of legal invoice processing, external counsel billing, matter coding, and associated reporting
- Monitoring compliance with internal policies, approval frameworks, and record-keeping requirements
- Maintaining legal templates, document repositories, and version control processes
- Supporting the preparation, formatting, filing, and archiving of contracts and legal documentation
- Acting as the first point of contact for legal process and documentation requests across the business
- Identifying opportunities to improve legal workflows, operational efficiency, and process consistency
What You'll Bring:
- Strong organisational and administrative skills with excellent attention to detail
- Experience managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with document management systems and Microsoft Office applications
- Experience coordinating billing, invoicing, or financial administration processes
- Excellent communication skills and a proactive, service-oriented approach to stakeholder management
Benefits
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.