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.

• 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 processes.
• Oversee relevant contract management processes, including tracking, summarizing, and compliance monitoring.
• Support standards and practices related to technology, operations, distribution and marketing.
• Advise on regulatory, intellectual property, data privacy and media law developments.
• Assist in incident reporting, risk mitigation strategies and internal investigations as needed.
• Provide day-to-day legal counseling across departments including engineering/operations, IT, finance and executive leadership.
• Support corporate governance, dispute management, and broader company-wide legal initiatives.
• Assist with counseling various departments on transactional, business and legal matters.
• Collaborate with internal teams on time-sensitive projects and translate business objectives into agreements.
• Develop and revise contract templates as necessary.
• Support senior attorneys/Company, as needed.
• Other such duties as required.

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
• 4–7+ years of relevant experience at a reputable law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating SaaS, cloud, and technology agreements.
• Experience in media, entertainment, sports media and/or production environments.
• Extensive knowledge of contract law, intellectual property and general corporate law.
• Solid understanding of data protection, cybersecurity and information security principles.
• Exceptional drafting, negotiation, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong business judgment and ability to provide pragmatic, solution-oriented advice.
• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-legal stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel; experience with contract lifecycle management systems a plus.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends, as schedules require.
• Experience supporting live broadcast or remote production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to implement process improvements and drive operational efficiency.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence…