Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Content Legal

About the Role:

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

Youll 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). Youll 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. Were 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 Youll Do:

• Serve as a functional role model for leadership for the Content Legal team Tubi Legal and across Tubi.
• Develop a keen understanding of Tubis business with a deep understanding of the evolving streaming and ad technology landscapes. Collaborate with business stakeholders legal colleagues and the Tubi GC to develop Tubis positions on legal issues and risk tolerance. Serve as a resource for business stakeholders across Tubis teams by providing 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 Legal team develop efficiencies and suggest areas for development across all Tubi Legal verticals. Work with other Tubi Legal managers to develop training for the entire Legal team.
• Work to establish best practices and identify practical solutions for your team to bring content negotiations and original content production to a close as frictionlessly as possible. Review and update templates and structure draft review and negotiate a variety of content-related agreements such as content licensing content distribution production services co-productions for original scripted and unscripted content development and talent agreements among others.
• 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.

Your Background:

• 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 content distribution agreements
• Experience structuring drafting and negotiating agreements involving the development and production of original licensed and co-produced scripted and unscripted content including movies and series
• Experience functioning in a a combined business and legal affairs role and equally proficient and comfortable negotiating business points and drafting agreements
• Understanding of digital rights management issues
• Familiarity with union (SAG-AFTRA WGA DGA IATSE) and non-union issues labor and employment law issues music clearances intellectual property law risk management and rights of publicity and privacy
• Excellent negotiating and drafting skills and demonstrated ability to balance necessary legal protections with practical business needs managing 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 and stakeholders
• 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

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Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation and the FOX Employee Benefits summarizedherecovers the majority of all US employee following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOXbenefits:

• For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
• For all salaried/exempt employees in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
• For all full-time regular employees in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth adoption surrogacy or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOXs short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state city and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
• For all full-time regular employees Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

Boldly built for every fandom Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the worlds 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. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.