Attorney

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

The Role

We are looking for a commercial attorney to join our in-house legal team to support the APAC region with an emphasis on trading card game development and commercialization.  The ideal candidate will have an excellent all-around understanding of commercial matters in the games industry. In this newly created role, you will work closely with our Magic: The Gathering Senior Attorney in the day-to-day provision of support and advice to other teams and departments within our businesses. This role will focus primarily upon Magic: The Gathering and Duel Masters, but will also have expanded responsibilities for collaborative projects across Wizards and Hasbro brands as well as physical and digital product support.

Responsibilities:

• Advising on various commercial matters such as sales and distribution issues (including, but not limited to, anticompetition/antitrust issues and ecommerce) and retail trade marketing.
• Key responsibilities include a heavy emphasis on co-branded licensing agreement drafting; negotiating all phases of distributor agreements; supporting Wizards Retail Support and events teams and providing day-to-day guidance on legal issues relevant to Wizards’ core hobby channel.
• Developing standard operating procedures and other processes to facilitate efficient legal transactions and manage contract risks.
• Guiding APAC business teams on regulatory and compliance issues to ensure compliance with legal regulations with a special emphasis on issues relating anticompetition/antitrust, promotions/marketing and giveaways.
• Maintaining awareness and understanding of the latest developments in the law and technology as they relate to the Wizards business.
• Working with APAC business teams to develop best business practices related to recordkeeping, confidentiality, ethics, and general compliance.

Qualifications:

• Written and oral fluency in English and Japanese is required. 
• Strong familiarity with intellectual property law and excellent legal drafting and negotiating skills; experience negotiating with and against large partners. Pragmatism in balancing costs and benefits and handling ambiguity.
• Ability to build trust and provide well-reasoned, business-based legal counsel based on rigorous legal research and learned expertise in the subject area; courage to identify and address risks and/or deficiencies.
• Ability to innovate and use technology to improve legal processes and best practices.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and handle high volume of work and variety of assignments, as well as recognize priorities and meet deadlines.
• Interest in working and ability to work well with internal stakeholders in multiple IPs and brands to meet the specific needs of those brands in each affected APAC region.
• Ability to work independently as well as in cross functional groups and collaboratively with team members; cross-cultural fluency and/or awareness.
• Working knowledge of legal processes and restrictions relevant to doing business in the APAC region.
• Strong analytical, project management, organizational and problem-solving skills, and demonstrated passion for creating and streamlining internal processes.
• Preferred: knowledge of licensing, ecommerce, retail hobby/gaming businesses or general entertainment industry, products distribution models and ‘new media’ developments.

Education:

• Qualified lawyer (U.S. J.D. or foreign equivalent) with minimum 4 years of experience

Our Values

• Be legendary: practice excellence, improve on our legacy, create awesomeness. 
• Build a well-rounded crew: inclusivity and diversity in both our teams and games.
• Delve into dungeons: embrace challenges with openness and creativity.
• Don’t split the party: agree or disagree but commit. Collaborate and have respect for each other.
• It takes a multiverse: we are driven by the lifelong satisfaction of our fans.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.