About the Role:
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. Serve as a resource for business stakeholders across Tubi’s 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 Acquisitions 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 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.
- Working with your team, support other Legal team verticals who have overflow work and counsel their clients, as needed.
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 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 and 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
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Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:
- 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 FOX’s 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 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. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
Tubi Los Angeles, California, USA Office
10201 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90064
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