Senior Legal Counsel (Consumer and Privacy)

Who We Are:

Omaze is a fundraising platform that has raised over $150M to support charities by offering people the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences, prizes and dream homes. Omaze is dreaming the world better, both for our customers and for the charities that we support in our work every day. Omaze winners have gone to Lake Como with George and Amal Clooney, received Pope Francis’ Lamborghini, received $1M cash and won multi million pound dream houses in the UK. Meanwhile, Omaze experiences have helped build a children's hospice centre in the UK, a community hub assisting the homeless population of LA, and solar water farms in multiple countries around the world.

Why You’ll Love Working at Omaze:

• Big Impact: You will be a part of a passionate team of world changers dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the world.
• Growth: Omaze is growing rapidly. If you’re excited about a high-growth, fast-paced environment or about scaling something that’s never been done before, we’d love to talk to you.
• Unique Culture: We live by our virtues. We believe in “we before me,” growing together, taking ownership, spreading joy, and dreaming giant.

Who We’re Seeking:

The Legal team at Omaze is responsible for protecting the company's interests by providing long-term strategic direction and day-to-day operational support.

The Senior Legal Counsel (Consumer and Privacy) will play a key role in supporting Omaze’s consumer, privacy, compliance and commercial contracts functions in the UK.

What You’ll Do:

• Marketing and consumer law. Review and advise on marketing materials, website copy, promotional rules, and consumer communications. Draft and maintain marketing policies and provide marketing and consumer law internal training. Keep up to date with legislative developments/ trends with UK marketing and consumer law.
• Data protection and compliance. Working closely with Omaze’s Data Protection Officer, provide legal advice and assistance on a wide range of data protection matters, including conducting LIAs and DPIAs, negotiating data processing agreement, cookies and similar technologies compliance, policy maintenance and running internal training.
• BAU legal support. Review, draft, edit and negotiate commercial agreements, including vendor agreements, NDAs, residential property purchase agreements, charity partnership agreements and update & maintain template repositories.
• Risk management. Coordinate with internal teams and external service providers to ensure agreements, communications, and other corporate materials properly reflect company risk tolerances.
• Compliance. Anticipate and proactively guard against legal and compliance risks by conducting research and providing analysis and advice on various matters and materials.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Qualified UK lawyer with 3 - 7+ years of experience working in an in-house legal department for a fast paced B2C company or an internationally/nationally recognised law firm
• Law degree from a top-ranked law school
• Fluent in English required (fluency in another European language a perk)
• Significant consumer law, data protection and contract drafting experience with high proficiency in creating clear, understandable and risk based advice
• Significant experience advising on the the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAP & BCAP Codes and UK advertising laws
• Experience of working closely with senior leaders across the group providing relevant and timely legal advice that promotes business growth
• Unmatched organisational skills and unyielding attention to detail
• Extreme multi-tasker with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness to learn other practice areas and to become familiar with laws of other jurisdictions
• Willingness to do the tedious, detailed-oriented legal work that keeps Omaze running and can independently exercise sound judgement with minimal supervision
• Experience of prize draw, promotion and gaming laws a plus
• Experience of charity laws a plus

Don’t quite meet all the above requirements? Apply anyway! We love talking to exceptional candidates. If the current role isn’t a fit, we’ll keep your information on file for the future.

Start Date: Immediately

Location: London Based (offices in Holborn)

Office Days: 3 days per week

What to Expect:

• Pension Plan with generous employer contributions
• Health Insurance with health, dental and optical cover
• Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection and Life Assurance
• Employee stock options
• The opportunity to work for a company making a tangible difference to the lives of our customers and our charity partners

We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze can bring their authentic self to work at all times.