Counsel Business & Legal Affairs

MLB Network is seeking a Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs with expertise in media, production, and technology transactions. The role involves supporting media production operations, handling SaaS, cloud, and digital infrastructure agreements, and translating business objectives into legal solutions.

Location: Secaucus, NJ

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 processes.