Assistant General Counsel (Commercial)

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Job Description :

Position - Assistant General Counsel (Commercial)

Location - NYC 1211 6th Avenue

In office - 4 days a week

Job Description:

News Corp is looking for a Commercial Attorney to join our team here in NYC. This individual will provide legal support and expertise to our corporate team drafting, reviewing, and negotiating on a wide variety of commercial contracts with particular responsibility for our technology, infrastructure, and sourcing and procurement activities.

Job responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate contractual language and standardize terms on all manners of commercial contracts with a particular emphasis on:

  • Technology and infrastructure platform licensing (including SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS)

  • Network connectivity and communications

  • Software license and development

  • Advertising technology (SSP & DSP)

  • Content licensing

  • Advertising, commercial sponsorship, and promotion agreements

  • Content, data, and distribution arrangements across all media – print and digital

  • Marketing arrangements

  • Other day-to-day operational, vendor, supplier and service provider services

• Efficiently process a large volume of complex, business critical, high-dollar value and other day-to-day contracts in a fast-paced environment and work independently with limited oversight. 

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders throughout the vendor engagement process, including Procurement, Operations, Finance, Cyber, Privacy, Risk Management, Compliance and Tax. 

• Contribute to the holistic negotiation of agreements with suppliers that achieve the optimal combination of service, cost, quality, and risk mitigation

• Assist with the development, implementation, and improvement of systems, processes and procedures to support legal review and contract lifecycle management

• Stay abreast of and contribute to sourcing and procurement’s professional trends and functional innovation particularly around legal and contractual matters

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor degree (J.D.)

• Qualified to practice law in New York/NJ

• Minimum eight (8) years of post-JD experience with mid - large sized firm training and in-house experience. Ideal candidates will have 8 to 12 years of relevant work experience.

• Knowledge of tools and systems to drive, automate and improve legal operations, as well as familiarity with intellectual property, consumer protection regulations, data privacy laws (including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and Australian Privacy Act), FTC advertising guidelines, and platform-specific advertising policies

• Demonstrated, first-hand experience:

  • Handling international and multi-jurisdictional matters

  • Being first-line reviewer, negotiator and drafter of international data privacy considerations in the context of commercial contracts with particular emphasis on issues (including cross-border transfer) arising from the utilization of third party service providers (including cloud services) by multi-national company 

  • Both utilizing and addressing contractually issues raised by AI technology

  • With intellectual property in the context of commercial contracts. Experience with real estate transactions, particularly commercial leases, is a plus

• Ability to creatively accomplish business goals while managing legal risk, including managing up to senior stakeholders and providing regular updates on successes and challenges

• Ability to effectively interact and collaborate with all levels of business professionals, including senior man