Vice President Senior Counsel, Legal - Sports

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

Responsibilities:
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of rights acquisition agreements and other commercial agreements for Versant's sports division, including Golf Channel, USA Network and their respective websites and digital platforms.
• Agreements may include various forms of rights agreements with leagues, conferences, national governing bodies, international federations, sports teams, colleges, and other sports content suppliers (including content/program agreements, time buy agreements, barter agreements, etc.), sponsorship agreements, programming development agreements, syndication agreements and other commercial agreements
• Counsel clients on contractual interpretation, advertising and promotional rights, production obligations, intellectual property usage, clearance issues and pre-litigation dispute resolution associated with sports and programming rights
• Liaise with and advise TV and Digital distribution teams on rights and clearances associated with linear and digital distribution matters
• Present analyses directly to executives and management
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
• Minimum seven (7) total years of related experience for the Senior Counsel level and ten (10) total years of related experience for the Vice President level, with some experience at comparable in-house position
• Capable of providing practical legal advice to members of business team at all levels
• Experience in drafting and negotiating sports rights acquisitions
• JD degree from an accredited US law school
• Member of a state bar in good standing

Desired Characteristics:
• Ability to work independently, multi-task successfully and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with minimal supervision
• Experience in broadcast media or sports industry, and/or new media and/or an understanding of television, cable industry and/or new media distribution businesses, a plus
• Excellent drafting skills
• Must be a team player
• Managerial experience a plus, but not mandatory
Additional Requirements
• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. Subject to change based on Manager discussion or business need.
• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
• Salary range for VP level: $200,000 - $280,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).
• Salary range for Senior Counsel level: $165,000 - $200,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-nee573-216-73-216-161-42 in your application.