[Remote] Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Content Legal

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tubi is seeking a Vice President, Associate General Counsel to lead its Content Legal team and advise its Content Acquisitions and Original Content business teams. The role oversees a team of attorneys, supports content negotiations and original productions, and partners with business and legal stakeholders on risk, legal strategy, and related issues.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a functional role model for leadership for the Content Legal team, Tubi Legal and across Tubi
• Develop a keen understanding of Tubi’s business, with a deep understanding of the evolving streaming and ad technology landscapes. Collaborate with business stakeholders, legal colleagues and the Tubi GC to develop Tubi’s positions on legal issues and risk tolerance. Serve as a resource for business stakeholders across Tubi’s teams by providing thoughtful analysis and effective communication of complex legal issues, regulations and laws, to provide business-forward advice in furtherance of company goals and OKRs
• Actively participate in developing and implementing process-related tasks to help the Content Legal team develop efficiencies and suggest areas for development across all Tubi Legal verticals. Work with other Tubi Legal managers to develop training for the entire Legal team
• Work to establish best practices and identify practical solutions for your team to bring content negotiations and original content production to a close as frictionlessly as possible. Review and update templates, and structure, draft, review and negotiate a variety of content-related agreements, such as content licensing, content distribution, production services, co-productions for original scripted and unscripted content, development and talent agreements, among others
• Keep internal stakeholders and third-party representatives adequately and timely apprised of the status of negotiations. Exercise thoughtful judgement to escalate issues to the GC as appropriate

Skills

• 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 a combined business and legal affairs role, and equally proficient and comfortable negotiating business points and drafting agreements
• 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 privacy
• Excellent negotiating and drafting skills and demonstrated ability to balance necessary legal protections with practical business needs, managing multiple, complex legal transactions simultaneously
• 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 who coaches and supports a team effectively
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written, and the ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal colleagues and stakeholders
• Detail-oriented and able to manage a high-volume workload efficiently and smoothly
• JD received from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school
• Admission to the state bar in at least one U.S. state

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Long-term incentive plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• For all salaried/exempt employees, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
• For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX’s short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
• For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

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