Senior Counsel, Media Distribution

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MLB seeks a Senior Counsel, Media Distribution with substantial experience navigating the legal and business issues surrounding media rights, content distribution and emerging engagement platforms, with significant focus on structuring, drafting and negotiating MVPD and virtual MVPD distribution agreements and content rights agreements. This Senior Counsel will play a critical role within the vertical of the MLB Legal team supporting the entirety of the industry’s national, international and local media business, and will work under the joint direction of the MLB Network Business &amp; Legal Affairs team, as required.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Structure, draft and negotiate domestic and international affiliate distribution agreements with MVPDs, virtual MVPDs, streaming platforms and emerging engagement platforms in support of the needs of various MLB entities, including MLB, MLB Media and MLB Network</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Structure, draft and negotiate wide variety of other agreements and other legal documents, including services agreements in support of content distribution and studio/remote production operations (e.g., uplink/origination, crewer, truck, equipment rental and/or purchase agreements, etc.), software and other technology-related agreements, transmission and engineering-related agreements, event-related agreements, license agreements (e.g., footage, films, and music related agreements), and such other agreements as required</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide interpretation, counsel and strategic guidance to internal stakeholders with respect to all current agreements, policies and governing documents</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Track, interpret and advise on existing terms and conditions of executed distribution agreements as one of the industry’s primary legal sources of knowledge, guidance and interpretation related to content distribution agreements across all platforms and partners</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner closely with business, programming, distribution and finance departments to ensure consistent understanding and application of distribution terms</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&qu