Counsel Business & Legal Affairs
Role Overview
The Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs at MLB Network is a senior role focused on negotiating and drafting technology and commercial agreements while advising on legal issues in media production. The position requires collaboration with various teams to develop legal solutions that align with business objectives, managing risks and ensuring compliance in a fast-paced environment. The hire will directly impact the efficiency of media production operations and technology transactions.
Perks & Benefits
While specific benefits are not outlined, this role likely includes a flexible remote work setup typical for tech jobs, allowing for collaboration across teams in various time zones. The culture is expected to be dynamic and collaborative, fostering growth and development within the legal and media fields. Opportunities for career advancement may arise due to the broad scope of responsibilities.
Full Job Description
MLB Network seeks a Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs with strong knowledge and understanding of legal and business issues related to media/production, strong negotiation and drafting skills and a solid understanding of business issues. The Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, should be a business-minded and technology-focused attorney supporting media production operations while handling technology, SaaS, and digital infrastructure transactions across the organization. The ideal candidate has strong experience in media/production environments and substantial expertise in SaaS, cloud, software development, and technology licensing agreements. This individual will partner cross-functionally to translate business objectives into practical legal solutions, manage risk, and ensure efficient deal execution in a fast-paced media production and technology environment.
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, 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 procPlease mention the word **HELPING** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.