At Sorare, we bet on passionate and innovative people! Are you looking for an empowering environment to grow professionally and personally? Join us in this tremendous adventure!

Our Mission

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience and marketplace featuring officially licensed digital player cards. With Sorare you build legacy teams –  buying, selling, collecting and trading player cards -- and compete with them in free-to-play fantasy games to win rewards week over week and season over season, just like a professional sports owner.

Sorare is revolutionizing digital sports fandom, and now has over 3,5 million users across 180 countries. More than 300 iconic teams, clubs, and organizations including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, NBA, NBPA, MLB, MLBPA, and many others have partnered with Sorare to build the next sports entertainment giant.

Our Journey

Sorare was founded by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort in 2018 in Paris to bring sports fans across the globe closer to the players, teams, and leagues they love.

With 130-plus employees across France and US, Sorare is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups and recently raised a $680 million Series B funding round from world-class investors including SoftBank, Accel, and Benchmark. Sorare also has athletes Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Piqué, Blake Griffin, and Rudy Gobert among its investors, ambassadors, and advisors.

Our Values

• Own your game: Think and act like an owner, and expect your teammates to do the same. You are an “entrepreneur” empowered to make decisions and own the outcomes.

• Build with the fans, and for the fans: Have an obsession for high-quality user experiences. Engage our community with transparency to build trust and learn from the fans to deliver effective changes.

• Run fast: Take bold risks and outpace the competition in an ever changing environment. Have a bias for action (connected to team goals) and strive to ship and iterate.

• Have fun and bring joy: Sports have the power to unite people around the world, and as fans ourselves, we believe it is a privilege to work in this industry.

• Win as a team: We are all in this together as one team, win or lose. Inspire your teammates to always be better.

The Sorare legal team is looking for a dynamic, business savvy qualified lawyer who is ready to provide first-in-class cross-functional legal advice. The ideal candidate will be excited by revolutionizing the sport entertainment industry and the novel legal issues this present.

This junior to mid-level attorney role will be focused on marketing, licensing and on providing legal advice to internal business clients. This role will directly report to the Lead Counsel, Licensing & Marketing and will require cross-functional collaboration with several departments and with people with very diverse backgrounds globally.

To succeed in this role, candidates should be fast learners, well-organized with excellent interpersonal skills, and have a business-partner mindset. Ideally, this lawyer will be well-versed in IP, marketing, licensing and the tech ecosystem. Knowledge of the sports industry will be considered a plus.

As this role will involve large amounts of drafting and training internal clients, top writing skills and excellent oral communication in English are an absolute must.

As a Legal Counsel at Sorare, you will: 

•  Act as legal contact for the Business Development and Marketing teams, support them in negotiations with Sorare’s partners, influencers, marketing agencies etc;

• Negotiate, review and draft a variety of commercial agreements and documents including licensing and partnership agreements, vendor agreements, talent agreements, production agreements, confidentiality agreements, sweepstakes rules;

• Review marketing and product content and provide legal guidance to business teams;

• Design and roll-out guidelines, processes and training on a regular basis to key stakeholders from Marketing, Business Development and Product teams.

 The ideal candidate:

• 3 to 5-year experience at a law firm and/or in-house international legal department;

• Experience in working across multiple international markets;

• Strong experience and knowledge in drafting, negotiating and interpreting complex agreements involving intellectual property, image and likeness rights. Knowledge of legal challenges around fantasy sports, gaming, and blockchain is preferred;

• Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity and problem-solving skills;

• Ability to prioritize and follow through on various negotiations and projects concurrently;

• Strong change management capabilities (flexible and open to embracing changes);

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills. Proficiency in French would be a plus.

• You are a team player who collaborates with empathy and respect

• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrating a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making.

The position is located in Paris, France 

If you’re passionate about technology, enjoy problem-solving, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

Our Hiring Process

• Step 1: Recruiter Screen (30 min)

• Step 2: Hiring Manager Screen

• Step 3: Case Study + Panel interviews

• Step 4: Reference Check & Offer

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.