Description:
Job Description:Join our An American Mass Media and Entertainment Conglomerate Company EPIC Legal Team! EPIC symbolizes key foundational principles as we strive to be extraordinary partners to our businesses in an evolving environment. Here at NBCU Legal, we are Expert Partners who provide Inspiring and Creative solutions to our clients. We are subject-matter experts who collaborate with our legal colleagues and clients to guide, solve and push for our collective success. We inspire by bringing optimism and positivity to our work, and apply strategic and innovative thinking to support our businesses.
Role Purpose:
The role of Associate Counsel/Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs will serve as a legal point of contact, provide legal support and meaningfully contribute to key business decisions with respect to all aspects of content acquisition by An American Mass Media and Entertainment Conglomerate Company's broad portfolio of television entertainment networks (NBC, USA, Bravo, Syfy, E!, Oxygen and Universal Kids) and our dynamic streaming service Peacock – including a wide range of issues relating to the distribution and licensing of film, television, news, sports, live events and original programming.
Job Duties:
- Independently draft, review, negotiate and interpret a range of licensing agreements and other legal documents
- Provide timely and thorough legal advice on and analysis of potential risks and issues, as well as propose practical, responsive solutions
- Identify and implement improvements to forms and processes
- Partner with An American Mass Media and Entertainment Conglomerate Company business executives, as well as colleagues across the Acquisitions, Finance, Marketing, Product, Legal and other departments, to discuss and implement best practices and formulate new processes in connection with business needs
- Other matters as needed at the direction of the division's General Counsel and its Senior Vice President
Qualifications:
Basic Requirements:
- Member of New York, California or other U.S. state bar
- JD or LLM degree from an accredited law school
- Minimum of 1 year of experience for Associate Counsel, or 4+ years of experience for Counsel, in a law firm and/or in-house legal department of entertainment, media/technology, intellectual property, or other relevant industry, with title and salary dependent on years of experience, including a thorough understanding of and demonstrated proficiency in the television and/or digital media space.
Desired Characteristics:
- Outstanding analytical, communication and organizational skills, including excellent drafting, negotiation and strategic thinking ability
- Collaborative, team-oriented approach
- Comfortable making legal decisions and advising on business risks
- Sound business judgment, and flexibility/adaptability to manage multiple, wide-ranging matters, conflicting deadlines, and new areas of expertise as business needs change
- Proactively identify, prioritize and resolve legal issues quickly and effectively
- Demonstrated ability, in a positive and practical manner, to approach complex legal scenarios in a thoughtful and analytic fashion
- Ability to explain complex legal concepts to business and creative executives, build consensus across business units, think creatively, and collaborate with other executives to address business needs
- Ability to work independently and interact with legal and business personnel of all levels
- Solid academic credentials
- Interest in the media industry
This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week
