Legal Counsel (Regulatory and Compliance - Communications), London

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The Team
The successful candidate would join the Communications Regulatory part of the "Consumer/Communications/Commercial Content Regulatory" team which plays an important role in our European Legal team. The team works on a wide range of complex and high profile issues, in a fast-paced environment, working across a range of consumer, communications and commercial content areas.

The Role

• Successful candidate will be a core part of the EU Legal team focusing on and specialising in telecoms regulatory matters, reporting into EU Legal Direct Messaging lead.

Responsibilities

• supporting business teams to ensure ongoing compliance with new and existing legislation across the Europe region;
• supporting our product legal team to review new products and features against relevant law and guidance;
• ensuring the consistent handling of regulatory enquiries and investigations; and
• assessing risk and coordinating with the wider business as a trusted adviser on compliance and risk management issues.

This is a growing team, as the business adapts to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex European legal regulatory framework.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to work on a wide range of complex and high profile issues, in a fast-paced environment, working across a range of telecoms regulatory issues.
• Ability to take responsibility and drive forward matters independently (with ad hoc support from manager, as needed).
• Ability to engage and form good relationships with a wide range of other legal and business stakeholders and multi-task more generally.
• Willingness to learn and get up to speed on a wide range of EU Telecoms regulatory rules we work with day to day.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant in-house telecoms regulatory experience for online messaging services (ideally) or traditional telecoms services.
• Relevant EEA and/or UK telecoms regulatory experience.
• Experience of having worked for a platform provider of online messaging services.
• Experience of having worked on regulatory matters across the EEA and in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
• Experience of having worked on various types of regulatory matters - e.g., providing regulatory advice, working on regulatory enquiries and investigations, incidents.
• Experience of working across various legal frameworks in the digital space - e.g,. privacy, telecoms, security.

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