Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial, Privacy and Product

About Us

We are BetMGM. We are revolutionizing sports betting and online gaming in the United States. We are a partnership between two powerhouse organizations—MGM Resorts International and Entain Group. You know our name through our exciting portfolio of brands including BetMGM Sportsbook, Borgata online, Party Casino and Party Poker. We aim to bring our ideas into action and find ways to deliver the best quality in gaming platforms.

We understand that each card in the deck plays a unique role in any given hand, just as our employees each play a unique role in accomplishing our goals as a company. We strive to create a culture of empathy where our employees feel valued, heard, and comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We want to build a product and a workplace that reflect the communities we serve so we approach our work fearlessly, take responsibility when we get it wrong, and ante-up again. We play to win, and we are all-in together.

We were recognized as one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”.

About the Role
BetMGM is looking for our next Senior Legal Counsel to support our commercial, privacy, product, corporate development, and business strategy needs. This role will play a pivotal role on our dynamic legal team.

Responsibilities

• Reviews, drafts, and negotiates key, high value commercial contracts, including business development, technology, data protection, AI, and privacy agreements and legal risk management including advising on information security controls, negotiating DPAs and SCCs.

• Adopts a collaborative business-partnering approach to lead negotiations with partners, suppliers, and affiliates across different functions.

• Develops a comprehensive understanding of the personal data BetMGM collects, uses and stores and assesses risk mitigation efforts to advise the business accordingly.

• Proactively advises and identifies legal risks arising from potential or existing commercial relationships and emerging privacy-related laws and regulations in the United States and Canada.

• Maintains up to date knowledge of state, federal, and global privacy laws, including but not limited to monitoring developments related to GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, CPA, and other emerging state privacy regulation and/or sector-specific frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, GLBA, COPPA).

• Manages outside counsel to address issues relevant to privacy-related laws and regulations.

• Reviews products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies for products across multiple jurisdictions.

• Provides and coordinates legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues such as data protection and privacy, data governance, consumer protection, e-commerce, payments, finance, corporate transactions, artificial intelligence, information integrity, and other legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to BetMGM’s products.

• Supports commercial transactions by advising the business regarding privacy diligence while partnering with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals in a collaborative environment (compliance, IT, product, finance, business development, technology, and corporate matters).

• Inspires confidence in business clients by consistently providing well-reasoned legal advice and practical solutions to complex issues.

• Exhibits a strong work ethic and takes ownership of complex projects with minimal supervision while demonstrating sound judgment and superior decision-making, multi-tasking and problem-solving skills; meets prescribed deadlines.

• Exhibits the utmost professionalism in all settings; capable of deploying strong advocacy skills in a tactful and effective manner.

• Consistently produces excellent work product.

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with co-workers, internal clients, and external business partners.

• Maintains confidentiality of sensitive information and demonstrates the utmost integrity in all settings.

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned by the Associate General Counsel, Corporate Transactions, Strategy & Technology, Deputy General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer.

Qualifications  

• Juris Doctor Degree

• Minimum of five (5) years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, and/or in-house legal departments.  7+ years experience and prior in-house experience preferred.

• Experience in gaming or other highly regulated industries a plus.

• Admission to practice law in a U.S. State and eligible to practice law in New Jersey as in-house counsel.

• Gaming license registration as required by ap