[Hiring] Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Content Acquisitions @Tubi

Role Description

Tubi is seeking a Vice President, Associate General Counsel-level attorney to lead our Content Acquisitions Legal team. This role provides legal advice, risk assessment and partnership management to the Content Acquisitions and Partnerships business team, and leads a team of four additional attorneys.

You'll work cross-functionally with other Tubi business teams, including Marketing, Sales, Product and Finance, as well as with Fox business and legal teams (e.g., Music and Tax). You'll also partner closely with fellow Tubi Legal subject matter experts on content-related issues including data privacy, digital rights management, IP and sponsorships.

The Tubi Legal team is organized into seven vertical subject areas. We're fast-paced, nimble, and work collaboratively on challenging issues while striving to be excellent partners to our fellow Tubies.

This position reports to our Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and may be located in our San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York offices, or remotely from any US-based location.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a functional role model for leadership for the Content Acquisitions Legal team, Tubi Legal and across Tubi.
• Develop a keen understanding of Tubi’s business, with a deep understanding of the evolving streaming and ad technology landscapes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, legal colleagues and Tubi GC to develop Tubi’s positions on legal issues and risk tolerance.
• Provide thoughtful analysis and effective communication of complex legal issues, regulations and laws, to provide business-forward advice in furtherance of company goals and OKRs.
• Actively participate in developing and implementing process-related tasks to help the Content Acquisitions Legal team develop efficiencies.
• Work with other Tubi Legal managers to develop training for the entire Legal team.
• Establish best practices and identify practical solutions for your team to bring content negotiations to a close as frictionlessly as possible.
• Review and update templates, and structure, draft, review and negotiate content license and distribution agreements, and other related agreements.
• Keep internal stakeholders and third-party representatives adequately and timely apprised of the status of negotiations.
• Exercise thoughtful judgement to escalate issues to the GC as appropriate.
• Build trust and drive strong relationships with internal stakeholders, third-party partners and licensors, cross-functional teams and Fox Legal and business colleagues.
• Support other Legal team verticals who have overflow work and counsel their clients, as needed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ legal experience between an established law firm and an entertainment, media, advertising and/or technology company.
• 5+ years’ experience managing, coaching and developing a team of high-performing attorneys.
• Experience negotiating and drafting content acquisition and distribution agreements.
• Understanding of digital rights management issues.
• Excellent negotiator with exceptional relationship management skills.
• Strong drafting skills and demonstrated ability to balance necessary legal protections with practical business needs.
• Ability to manage multiple, complex legal transactions simultaneously.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic and creative environment.
• Strong executive presence and an energetic team leader who coaches and supports a team effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written, and the ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal colleagues.
• Detail-oriented and able to manage a high-volume workload efficiently and smoothly.
• JD received from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school.
• Admission to the state bar in at least one U.S. state.

Requirements

• #LI-MJ1
• #LI-Hybrid

Benefits

• Pay range for this role: $252,300 — $360,500 USD annually, dependent on education, skills, experience, and location.
• Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and long-term incentive plan.
• Various benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
• For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
• Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy for salaried/exempt employees.
• Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program for full-time, regular employees.
• Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement for full-time, regular employees.

Company Description

Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.