Influential is looking for an experienced, collaborative and highly motivated team player to join as our Director of Legal & Business Affairs. This position will report directly to our General Counsel, Head of Business & Legal Affairs and will play a critical role in helping stakeholders across the company with contracts in areas ranging from client, vendor and talent agreements to content production, rights, and clearance work. Within the Business & Legal Affairs team, this position will support day-to-day activities, contract management as well as longer-term initiatives and projects. This is a great opportunity to join a growing team and work on cutting-edge legal and business issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment. 

In general, on a typical day, you will:

• Review, edit and advise on legal correspondence and contracts, including master service agreements, SaaS licenses, and SOWs
• Ensure compliance with privacy laws including, but not limited to, GDPR
• Liaise between internal business partners and client teams during contract development and negotiation
• Serve as a resource for Sales and Operations teams’ inquiries about governing terms of insertion orders, custom content agreements, media vendor agreements and intellectual property rights issues
• Conduct rights analysis, summarize existing and proposed agreements and research relevant legal issues
• Perform research on privacy, intellectual property rights, media platforms, legal provisions, and industry and territory-specific laws and requirements
• Monitor changes to government guidelines and/or regulations
• Maintain knowledgebase of resources, develop industry best practices, process improvements, and conduct related compliance trainings
• Learn and implement the company’s review and approval protocols for different agreement types
• Liaise with Sales and Operations teams to track and manage deal status and related reporting, maintain and track reports for all assigned projects and ensure that agreements are executed in a timely manner
• Additional responsibilities as delegated by the General Counsel

Being a Director of Business & Legal Affairs requires:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience as in-house counsel (preferably in the marketing or advertising industry)
• Prior experience in privacy law and GDPR compliance
• Ability to build positive client relationships at all levels of the business and advise clients
• Demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate and interact with clients, representatives, and outside attorneys
• Excellent communication, organization, time management, problem solving and interpersonal skills, impeccable judgement, integrity, and collaborative team player
• Must be able to function effectively and work independently, multi-task under pressure, and manage a high-volume workload efficiently in a team-oriented environment

Bonus points if:

• Experience working at a startup, especially a media company or agency
• Familiarity and comfort with advertising and media agreements and business terms
• Understanding of content production process, especially with rights, clearances and SAG

Salary:

$150,000