About the Role:
Tubi is seeking a Vice President, Associate General Counsel-level attorney to lead our Marketing and Legal team. This role provides legal advice, risk assessment and partnership management to the Marketing business team, and leads a team of three additional attorneys.
You'll work cross-functionally with other Tubi business teams, including Original Content, Sales, Product and Engineering, as well as with Fox business and legal teams (e.g., Music and Litigation). You'll also partner closely with fellow Tubi Legal subject matter experts on marketing-related issues including intellectual property, IP, AI and sales 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.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a functional role model for leadership for the Marketing Legal team, Tubi Legal and across Tubi.
- Develop a keen understanding of Tubi’s business, with a deep understanding of the evolving streaming and digital marketing 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 Marketing Legal team develop efficiencies and suggest areas for development across all Tubi Legal verticals.
- Work cross-functionally to complete complex commercial agreements, including marketing, services, and licensing agreements, in support of Tubi’s Marketing, Creative Studio, Original Content, Sales, Growth, and Product/Engineering teams.
- 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 negotiations to a close as frictionlessly as possible. Review and update templates, and structure, draft, review and negotiate marketing 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 complex commercial agreements, including marketing, licensing, services and sponsorship agreements
- Experience providing intellectual property clearance, including clearance subject to talent and content agreement restrictions
- Excellent negotiator with exceptional relationship management skills
- Knowledge of industry-specific marketing issues, such as FTC influencer disclosures, sweepstakes and contests, and claims-based advertising
- 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.
High cost labor markets such as but not limited to Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco
$252,300—$360,500 USD
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.
About Tubi:
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.
