Associate General Counsel

Overview

An established professional golf organization is seeking a strategic, business-minded, and collaborative attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel. This role supports global media, marketing, content, intellectual property, and technology initiatives. The attorney will work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional business teams to structure, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial transactions.

Responsibilities

Media Rights, Broadcast Production & Content Distribution

• Support television, streaming, and digital media businesses, including programming, production, distribution, monetization, and emerging content initiatives.
• Negotiate, draft, and manage complex media, broadcast, production, and content licensing agreements such as:
  • Domestic and international media rights agreements
  • Streaming, OTT, FAST channel, and digital distribution agreements
  • Production services agreements
  • Content acquisition and licensing arrangements
  • Telecast, radio, highlights, archive, and ancillary rights agreements
• Advise on content-related legal issues involving rights ownership, chain-of-title, copyright, trademark, music licensing, rights of publicity, and user-generated content.

Marketing, Advertising, Content Use / Clearance

• Support global marketing and communications teams on advertising, promotions, and branded content initiatives.
• Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial and marketing agreements, including:
  • Promotional agreements
  • Influencer, creator, and talent agreements
  • Agency, production, and vendor agreements
  • Branded content and content production agreements
• Support rights clearance and advise on intellectual property use involving music, footage, photography, trademarks, talent, and third-party content across campaigns and platforms.
• Advise on advertising and promotional requirements, including sweepstakes, contests, endorsements, testimonials, consumer disclosures, native advertising, and social media campaigns.
• Advise on compliance with applicable privacy, data protection, and marketing communications laws, including CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and related email, SMS/text messaging, and digital marketing regulations.
• Support management and enforcement of intellectual property assets, including trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and related licensing programs.

Technology & Digital Platforms

• Provide legal support for digital platforms, products, fan engagement platforms, content monetization initiatives, social commerce, payment technologies, and emerging technologies.
• Negotiate and advise on technology-related agreements, including platform integration, ad tech and marketing technology data licensing, SaaS, cloud services, artificial intelligence, and vendor agreements.

Compliance & Strategic Counseling

• Advise internal stakeholders on applicable laws and regulations relating to advertising, media, consumer protection, privacy, and digital content distribution.
• Develop and maintain internal legal policies, templates, standards, and best practices to support operational efficiency and risk management.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with media, partnerships, marketing, communications, technology, finance, and operations teams on strategic initiatives and day-to-day legal matters.
• Manage outside counsel and assist with dispute resolution and pre-litigation matters as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of legal experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements in media, sports, entertainment, technology, marketing, or digital content industries.
• Experience supporting television, streaming, digital media, OTT, FAST channel, or sports/media distribution businesses is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of consumer protection, advertising, and privacy laws and regulations, including FTC guidelines, CAN-SPAM, COPPA, TCPA, GDPR, and applicable state, federal, and global data privacy laws.
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.
• Ability to qualify for Authorized House Counsel status in Florida if not currently licensed in Florida.
• Exceptional drafting, negotiation, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority projects in a deadline-driven environment.
• Strong leadership, business judgment, and strategic thinking skills.
• Proven ability to provide practical, solution-oriented legal advice balancing legal risk with business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience building trusted relationships across all levels of an organization and supporting and mentoring colleagues.

Compensation & Benefits

The final title and level will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications.

Location

This position requires the ability to qualify for Authorized House Counsel status in Florida if not currently licensed there. Specific location details were not provided.