Senior Legal Manager, Deezer

DPO

Salary not provided
Senior level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

Open for applications

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Senior level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Company mission

Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.

Role

Who you are

  • A Master’s Degree in IP/IT/Data
  • 5+ years of experience in data protection compliance, whether in a law firm or in-house
  • A strong understanding of tech, web and mobile environment
  • High skills in negotiation and ability to work effectively under pressure and to manage sensitive and confidential information
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills both in French and English and ability to interact with third parties and cross-functional teams internally
  • Strong project management skills

What the job involves

  • We are currently looking for a Senior Legal Manager & DPO to join our Legal and Compliance Team
  • The team is composed of around thirteen people and contributes to Deezer’s development, from securing music licensing contracts and commercial partnerships, to managing Deezer's governance as a listed company, or to ensuring compliance with legal obligations, particularly regarding the protection of personal data
  • Serve as the main point of contact within the organization for staff members, regulators, and relevant public authorities on issues related to data protection
  • Ensure that Deezer policies are in compliance with codes of practice such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Evaluate the existing data protection framework to identify areas of no or partial compliance, and rectify any issues (including updating existing internal data protection policies, guidelines, and procedures, in consultation with key stakeholders)
  • Devise training plans and provide data protection advice to staff members
  • Inform and advise the data controller or data processor on all matters related to data protection
  • Promote a culture of data protection and compliance across all units of the organization
  • Drafting and negotiating various contracts relating to Deezer's commercial activities throughout the world and litigations management related to Deezer’s B2C and B2B activities
  • Securing data and tech-related matters
  • Providing legal advice and risk assessment to other teams

Our take

Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.

Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.

There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.

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Freddie

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back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2018

$176.3m

LATE VC

Jan 2016

$110.2m

SERIES E

Total funding: $529.1m

Company benefits

  • Start-up environment and philosophy
  • Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
  • In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
  • Hackathons & meetups
  • Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
  • A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
  • Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
  • An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
  • Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
  • A Deezer premium family account for free
  • Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
  • Meal vouchers

Company HQ

Saint-Georges, Paris, France

Leadership

Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.

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