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Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs
Source: remoteok
About the Role
MLB Network is seeking a Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs with a strong understanding of legal and business issues related to media/production. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation and drafting skills, a solid understanding of business issues, and a business-minded and technology-focused approach. This attorney will support media production operations while handling technology, SaaS, and digital infrastructure transactions across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of technology and commercial agreements, including:
- SaaS agreements
- Cloud services agreements
- Software development and licensing agreements
- Master services agreements
- Statements of work
- Technology integration, data processing, and information security agreements
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of business operation and content production-related agreements and other documents, including:
- Services agreements in support of business operations
- Studio and remote production operations
- Transmission-related agreements
- Event-related agreements
- Content acquisition, licensing, and distribution
- Certain talent/services agreements and work-for-hire/independent contractor agreements
- Advise on data privacy, cybersecurity, AI/automation tools, IP ownership, open-source use, and risk allocation in technology transactions.
- Partner with production technology, engineering, IT, product, procurement, and finance teams to support studio and remote production operations.
- Develop and maintain contract templates and playbooks to streamline technology and other contracting processes.
Requirements
- Strong experience in media/production environments.
- Substantial expertise in SaaS, cloud, software development, and technology licensing agreements.
- Ability to translate business objectives into practical legal solutions.
- Ability to manage risk and ensure efficient deal execution in a fast-paced media production and technology environment.