Overview
A leading media organization is seeking a Senior Counsel, Media Transactions to provide strategic legal support across its media, production, distribution, and content businesses. This remote role involves advising on commercial transactions, original production activities, content licensing, distribution matters, and operational issues while collaborating closely with business leaders to manage risk and drive results.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a generalist media/entertainment attorney supporting distribution, programming, production, licensing, advertising, marketing, operations, and corporate initiatives.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements including content licensing, production, services, vendor, nondisclosure, release, and other media-related contracts.
- Support original production and content-rights work, covering development, production, clearance, rights, releases, production services, location matters, risk management, acquisition, use, distribution, renewal, sublicensing, exclusivity, windowing, territory, term, and rights-clearance issues.
- Assist with distribution-related legal matters such as carriage, affiliation, retransmission, platform, and digital distribution arrangements.
- Oversee and manage litigation and disputes, including outside counsel strategy, budgets, pleadings, correspondence, discovery, settlement evaluation, pre-litigation disputes, demand letters, claims, subpoenas, investigations, and stakeholder communications.
- Provide practical advice on negotiation strategy, risk mitigation, contract interpretation, compliance obligations, operational questions, and dispute avoidance.
- Maintain legal templates, playbooks, approval processes, and best practices.
- Support responsible AI and technology-enabled legal department improvements.
- Monitor relevant legal and industry developments.
- Support special projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Active license to practice law in good standing with at least one state bar; Ohio, New York, or Georgia preferred.
- Generally, 10+ years of experience working in a media and/or television environment with content exploited through linear and non-linear means, including broadcast, cable, streaming, and digital platforms preferred.
- Significant experience practicing law in a law firm, corporate legal department, media company, entertainment company, or comparable business environment.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating media/entertainment-focused agreements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Practical legal judgment and risk assessment skills.
- Strong business partnership and client service orientation.
- Contract drafting and negotiation expertise.
- Litigation management and dispute resolution capabilities.
- Fluency in media, production, licensing, and distribution legal matters.
- Clear communication skills and executive presence.
- Project management and prioritization abilities.
- Technology fluency, including openness to artificial intelligence and other tools to support efficient, high-quality legal services.
- Collaborative, collegial, and team-oriented approach.
Compensation & Benefits
Details regarding compensation and benefits are not specified.
Location
This is a remote position allowing work from a home office while collaborating with colleagues across the organization.
Note: Current employees of the organization should apply through the internal career site and not via external job postings.