Description:

About the role:
An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company is seeking a dynamic, business-oriented Senior Counsel to serve as the primary legal partner for our innovative software and connected fitness product teams. In this role, you will be a key advisor from ideation to launch and beyond, embedding yourself with product managers, engineers, and designers to navigate complex legal issues in areas like data privacy, AI ethics, user-generated content, and consumer protection.

Reporting to the Senior Legal Managing Director of Product and located in our NY HQ office, you will be responsible for providing pragmatic legal guidance that enables the development of cutting-edge features across our connected fitness, mobile, and web platforms. The ideal candidate is a proactive and collaborative attorney who thrives on translating complex legal principles into actionable guidance that helps the business achieve its objectives while upholding our commitment to our Members.

Your Daily Impact at An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company

Serve as the lead day-to-day counsel for An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company Product organization through the lifecycle of our software products and services, including on our connected fitness, mobile and Web platforms.
Ensure that An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company products and services uphold applicable laws, An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company principles, and our Members' preferences, about protecting personal data. Advise business stakeholders on potential privacy issues and practical solutions.
Coordinate closely with legal subject matter experts in areas like litigation and privacy to translate complex legal concepts into actionable guidance for the business.
Review, negotiate, draft, and advise on contracts and agreements relating to our software products and services, including software development agreements and software license agreements, and serving as the lead Legal liaison with Procurement on these contracts.
Demonstrate a keen ability to issue spot sensitive legal and business concerns, including a strong sense of when to escalate (and not escalate) such matters to internal stakeholders
Provide advice on workflow process improvement, playbook development, client training, and updating templates to address the evolving needs of a growing organization

What You Bring to An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company

J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and a member in good standing of the New York State Bar, or the ability to register as in-house counsel.
8+ years of relevant legal experience, with a significant portion spent in-house at a technology or consumer products company counseling product and engineering teams.
Experience providing rapid, practical, business-oriented legal/commercial contract evaluation to both internal and external clients
Strong working knowledge of privacy law and related rights, including recent AI, privacy and security reforms and proposed regulations
Experience advising on global regulations for user-generated content, in particular the Digital Services Act and the Online Safety Act, with experience advising on those laws preferred.
Experience drafting and negotiating software services and license agreements required.
Strong command of technical concepts, including system architecture, coding languages, and software development lifecycles, and the ability to distill complex concepts into “plain English” for internal clients and counterparts.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an interest in working cross-functionally, and ability to collaborate with all personality types.
Superb planning and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once, and to create and implement short and long-term strategies and goals
Able to work independently with An American Exercise Equipment and Media Company team members throughout the U.S. and globally, meeting deadlines in the face of fast-moving initiatives
Outstanding critical thinking skills, with a bias for action and confidence to make informed decisions that have both legal and business implications.