Roles & Responsibilities
- Negotiate and draft inbound and outbound intellectual property license agreements supporting products sold across ZURU’s toy and fast moving consumer goods verticals.
- Provide legal support and advice on intellectual property licensing and management of ongoing licensing partnerships. Licensing contract review, drafting, and advice will be about 50% of time spent for this role.
- Provide legal support for global marketing, sales, product design and development, concept acquisition and creative services groups.
- Counsel on a broad range of legal issues, including licensing, marketing, advertising, promotions, social media, privacy, regulatory and compliance matters, contract interpretation.
- Advise the business regarding regulatory and compliance issues affecting consumer products and toys.
- Negotiate and draft a variety of contracts, including inbound licenses with inventors and a variety of third party licensors, marketing and promotions agreements, distribution agreements, third party logistics agreements, and manufacturing agreements.
- Assist with intellectual property prosecution, acquisition, and strategy. Assist with litigation matters relating to intellectual property. Intellectual property prosecution, acquisition, and litigation will be about 20% of time spent for this role.
- Review and advise on product development, product packaging, and all manner of advertising and marketing materials, including television commercials, print ads, digital media campaigns, contests, sweepstakes and other promotions.
- Coordinate with internal legal and non-legal resources as necessary to address legal and business issues; manage external legal resources.
- Work directly with and advise on legal issues succinctly to senior executives.
- Provide internal education and training on relevant legal issues.
- Advise on legal aspects of company structuring (in partnership with the Tax team).
- Participate in the definition and development of corporate policies, procedures and programs.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from a recognised university and a current practising certificate.
- Minimum 8 years’ experience as an attorney.
- Experience negotiating and drafting merchandise and brand licensing agreements preferred.
- Strong contract review and drafting experience required.
- Intellectual property prosecution, strategy, review, and implementation.
- Strong negotiating skills with both legal and financial/commercial issues.
- An ability to assess and evaluate a broad range of legal issues and risks and provide commercially focussed practical legal advice.
- A natural ability and desire to work collaboratively with our team and business partners.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to engage at all levels of the organisation.
Top Skills
What We Do
ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow from A to Z. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction). Known for its cutting-edge software and world-leading automation and manufacturing systems, ZURU has over 5,000 team members in over 30 global locations, making it perfectly placed to continue building its reputation as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies in the world. ZURU TOYS ZURU Toys is one of the largest toy companies in the world, known for its innovation, creativity and disruption through automation. Inspired by kids and imaginative play, ZURU Toys distributes to all major retailers in over 120 countries and has delighted millions of families all over the world with brands such as Bunch O Balloons™, X-Shot™, Rainbocorns™, Robo Alive™, Smashers™, 5 Surprise™, and Pets Alive™ and partnerships with entertainment properties, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Universal Studios and DreamWorks. ZURU EDGE ZURU Edge is disrupting stale consumer goods categories and building new generation brands to better serve modern consumers. Arguably the fastest-growing consumer goods company in the world today, ZURU Edge has a key focus on building tomorrow’s brands across five key verticals—Pet Care, Baby Care, Personal Care & Beauty, Home Care and Health & Wellness. ZURU TECH ZURU Tech is revolutionizing the way the world builds to bring greater flexibility, speed, affordability, quality and sustainability to the construction industry. Ten years in the making, ZURU Tech has reinvented every aspect of the construction process, developing the world’s first BIM software that directly connects to fully automated production. Get to know us a little better by checking out our company Instagram @lifeatzuru
