We are looking for a talented, hard-working, super bright team player with at least 3-5 years of experience to join our small but mighty legal team. This is a unique opportunity to work on a wide variety of exciting and challenging matters in a fast-paced and collaborative environment where you can really make a difference.

Our new team member will assist our existing 2-person team in handling all of the company’s legal needs, including anticipating legal risks, providing advice, negotiating a breadth of commercial arrangements, assisting in our global expansion efforts and generally setting us up for success. Prior technology, privacy and e-commerce experience would be helpful.

Responsibilities:

• Contracts: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including studio partners, master services, licensing, leases, professional services, marketing, technology, SaaS, vendor agreements, NDAs, website terms and many more.
• Advice: Working cross-functionally to identify risks and provide strategic, practical and creative legal and business advice, including with respect to studio relations, product development, marketing campaigns, technology, customer service, operations, compliance and other matters.
• Privacy: Advising on best practices and compliance with global privacy and data protection laws, including by supporting a privacy by design approach and overseeing legal and regulatory aspects of data collection and use, privacy disclosures and transparency, data security and breaches, and the use of location-based services, biometrics and emerging technologies.
• Global Expansion: Assisting with rapid global expansion from the legal perspective, including identifying and managing local legal requirements.
• Processes: Helping to develop and improve internal procedures and policies, including template agreements, contract management, record retention, outside counsel oversight, company education.
• Best Practices: Staying on top of, and educating colleagues about, industry best practices, trends and legal developments.

Our ideal candidate:

• Excels in a fast-paced environment. We’re a high-growth company that’s constantly iterating and you will demonstrate responsiveness and flexibility while managing multiple priorities and adapting quickly to change.
• Has an extremely practical, creative, business-first, can-do approach to problem solving and is excited to roll up their sleeves to tackle whatever comes our way.
• Is super bright, hardworking, reliable and a self-starter; this is a small team and you will need to thrive while working independently.
• Demonstrates great judgment and has excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical, negotiating and drafting skills.
• Has a collaborative and approachable style and the ability to communicate and interact effectively with all levels of the organization.

Requirements:

• JD. from top law school, NY state bar admission preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years experience in a large law firm or corporate legal department, even better if you have also worked in house.
• Experience in ecommerce, privacy and technology preferred