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