Counsel Business & Legal Affairs

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 proc