Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Content Legal

The role

This person will lead the Content Legal team and provide legal advice, risk assessment, and partnership management to Content Acquisitions and Original Content business teams. They will manage a team of seven attorneys and work cross-functionally with various business and Fox teams.

What you will do

• Serve as a functional role model for leadership for the Content Legal team, Tubi Legal and across Tubi.
• Develop understanding of Tubi's business and the streaming and ad technology landscapes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, legal colleagues and the Tubi GC to develop positions on legal issues and risk tolerance.
• Provide analysis and communication of complex legal issues to business stakeholders.
• Develop and implement process-related tasks to help the Content Legal team develop efficiencies.
• Work with other Tubi Legal managers to develop training for the entire Legal team.
• Establish best practices and practical solutions for content negotiations and original content production.
• Review, update, structure, draft, review and negotiate content-related agreements.
• Keep internal stakeholders and third-party representatives apprised of the status of negotiations.
• Escalate issues to the GC as appropriate.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years' legal experience between an established law firm and an entertainment, media, advertising and/or technology company
• 5+ years' experience managing, coaching and developing a team of high-performing attorneys
• Experience negotiating and drafting content acquisition and content distribution agreements
• Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements involving the development and production of original, licensed and co-produced scripted and unscripted content including movies and series
• Experience functioning in a combined business and legal affairs role
• Understanding of digital rights management issues
• Familiarity with union (SAG-AFTRA, WGA, DGA, IATSE) and non-union issues, labor and employment law issues, music clearances, intellectual property law, risk management, and rights of publicity and pri
• Excellent negotiating and drafting skills
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic and creative environment
• Strong executive presence and an energetic team leader
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written
• JD received from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Long-term incentive plan
• Medical/dental/vision
• Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Flexible Time off Policy for salaried/exempt employees
• Parental Leave Program (twelve weeks of paid bonding leave)
• Monthly wellness reimbursement

About the company

Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. It is a division of Fox Corporation.