Director, AGC, Business & Legal Affairs, Original Content

About the Role:

Tubi is adding a Director, Associate General Counsel-level attorney to our growing legal team. You will play a key role in structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of agreements, including development agreements, license agreements, production services, and co-productions for original scripted and unscripted content. You will be working with your fellow legal team colleagues and many teams across the organization and will have a direct impact on our service as we continue to grow our slate of Tubi Originals movies and series. You are an energetic team player, who is willing to learn and to be challenged. The legal department comprises eight different teams supporting the business and legal operations for the company. We are fast-paced and collaborative while we work on challenging issues, and strive to be an excellent partner to our fellow Tubies. This position will report to our Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, Original Content.

This position may be located in our San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York offices, or remotely from any US-based location.

Responsibilities:

• Structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements involving the development and production of original, licensed and co-produced scripted and unscripted content including movies and series. This role is a combined business and legal affairs role, and the individual should be equally proficient and comfortable negotiating business points and drafting agreements.
• 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.
• Manage and resolve issues that arise during content development, production, and distribution.
• Serve as a resource and provide guidance to external production partners.
• Working with colleagues to establish best practices, draft templates and identify practical business solutions for driving contracts to close in a manner that balances meeting business objectives and mitigating risk.
• Assisting other legal team members with overflow content licensing work and counseling clients as needed.  A cooperative, team-focused approach.
• Must have superlative communication skills, orally and written, and the ability to proactively collaborate with client group members, provide guidance, and make strategic recommendations in deal-making.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to manage a high-volume workload efficiently and smoothly.

Your Background:

• 12 years of legal experience as an attorney, including experience at an established law firm and in-house at entertainment/media companies, with 8 years of extensive experience negotiating and drafting a wide range of entertainment-related agreements and 3 years of legal experience in a business and legal affairs role focusing on original scripted series content production.     
• An excellent negotiator with strong influencing skills
• Strong drafting skills and demonstrated ability to manage multiple, complex legal transactions simultaneously
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal colleagues
• Demonstrated ability to develop creative and practical solutions to drive deals to close 
• Ability to work independently and proactively, with good judgment to know when to escalate an issue 
• Curiosity about the entertainment/media landscape and technology
• 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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