# Senior Legal Counsel - Music (F/H/NB)

**Company**: Ubisoft
**Location**: Paris, IDF
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

As a Senior Legal Counsel specialising in music at Ubisoft, you will be the go-to legal expert for all music-related matters across our games, including licensing and synchronisation. Your role involves negotiating and drafting contracts with external partners, advising production teams, and ensuring compliance with regulations.

Responsibilities:

- Negotiate and draft music-related contracts, including licences, commissions, and distribution agreements, in French and English

- Provide strategic and operational advice to production teams, making complex legal concepts accessible

- Act as a natural point of contact for creative teams on music-related queries, offering practical guidance

- Educate creative teams globally to enhance their legal awareness and collaborate with the legal team to develop useful tools

- Monitor regulatory changes and market trends in the music and gaming industries to anticipate impacts on production

- Ensure compliance with business needs, internal policies, and risk tolerance

- Contribute to continuous improvement of contract templates and legal processes

- Work closely with external law firms on sensitive cases

Qualifications:

- Significant experience in music law, ideally within a corporate setting

- Strong background in drafting and negotiating music contracts under various jurisdictions

- Fluency in French and English, with ability to work in both languages

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to simplify complex legal concepts

- Strong negotiation skills, with a win-win approach and comfort in ambiguous situations

- Emotional intelligence, curiosity, and sound judgement, with ability to unite stakeholders from different backgrounds

Additional Information:

- Recruitment process: phone exchange with recruiter, interview with hiring manager and recruiter, interview with Chief Legal Officer

- Benefits: participation, company savings plan, 25 days' paid holiday, 12 days' RTT, 50% transport pass reimbursement, meal vouchers, good health insurance, and more

- Ubisoft offers a 20-week maternity leave and 7-week paternity/co-parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- music law
- contract negotiation
- French
- English
- communication
- interpersonal skills
- strategic thinking
- operational management

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