Legal Counsel, Product and Digital

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution.

When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Nielsen seeks to hire a talented, enthusiastic and business-oriented lawyer to join the Legal Department’s Product & Digital Support team as Legal Counsel, Product & Digital supporting Nielsen’s Audience Measurement business.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting Nielsen's product development and deployment efforts and will work closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to identify and manage contractual, regulatory, privacy, and other legal risks. In addition to advising product-related teams, this position will draft and negotiate product, alliance, supplier and commercial sales agreements relating to data and information, licensing, technology, and market research at the forefront of the evolving media landscape.

The ideal candidate is a reliable problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes a rigorous, detail oriented approach to matters, and who offers practical solutions that accommodate business needs and legal risks. Nielsen is seeking a good communicator comfortable engaging with internal and external clients to identify key issues and resolve matters. The Counsel will work in a collaborative culture advising teams regarding compliance with contracts, internal policies and regulatory requirements (including AI and data privacy), and will draft and negotiate agreements with networks, streaming services, digital/social media companies, data suppliers, and service/equipment providers.

This role provides an opportunity to make an impact on the media, entertainment and advertising industries at an exciting and transformative time.

Candidates will have the option to work in-office or hybrid model in our New York location.

• Provide legal support for product development, distribution, and sales using an ability to understand, interpret and translate legal, business and technical concepts to provide practical and business-oriented opinions on legal risks and ensure appropriate contractual terms.
• Assess product features, functionalities, and designs, data processing proposals, and other product-related initiatives to identify potential legal issues, protect intellectual property rights, and ensure compliance with contractual commitments and regulatory requirements.
• Draft, review, negotiate and manage commercial contracts, including data supplier and integration agreements, inbound and outbound licenses, technology services agreements, alliance agreements and supplier agreements.

• 3 or more years of experience including experience in a digital media, digital advertising, ad tech, data analytics or technology practice at a law firm and/or in-house.
• Working knowledge of online, internet and mobile communications and connected devices (e.g., IP
• protocol/addresses, device identifiers, cookies, content/ad delivery, APIs, SDKs).
• Experience supporting data processing teams that work with identity graphs/spines, data matching,
• data modeling and algorithms, identity resolution and data clean rooms.
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex contracts involving online media, consumer data, digital
• advertising technology, market research, and/or data products, and experience with commercial sales
• agreements involving various compensation structures.
• Knowledge of current, relevant laws and regulations in the areas of contracts, computer/technology,
• licensing, intellectual property and privacy.
• Working knowledge of intellectual property law and data…