Location:
New York, NYConde Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.
The company is headquartered in New York and London, and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local license partners across the globe.
PURPOSE
The Purpose of this role is to lead the day to day management of transactional legal work at Conde Nast. This will include negotiating and advising on major transactions, leading on support to the Commercial, Consumer, Production and Procurement teams, while overseeing and developing the legal teams providing advice to these business units and partnering with the Head of Legal Operations to proactively identify the need for Legal Operations solutions.
Consumer Revenue
Provide legal support to our Consumer business and proactively build connections and influence across the senior Consumer team. Assist on a range of global deals and issues in the Consumer space.
Commercial Revenue Revenue
Support US and global revenue transactions, acting as a point of escalation for major transactions, across Ad sales, Consumer sales, Consumer regulatory, Events, Social as requested by the Deputy GC and in-market Revenue & Consumer lawyers. Assist the Deputy GC and in market counsel with the development of appropriate service levels to the Revenue teams.
Procurement
Oversee and develop delivery of procurement advice and service to the global procurement team, including development of processes, best practices and workflows.
Corporate
Oversee delivery of day-to-day corporate and company secretarial advice to the Finance, Real Estate and Executive Leadership teams.
Content Transactions
Oversee and be responsible for the drafting and negotiation of production related agreements, contributor agreements and talent agreements and provide business-oriented legal guidance for publishing, film and television, digital video, podcasts and other inbound licensing across the US and international markets.
Commercial & Entertainment Team
Support the Deputy General Counsel with the development of the Commercial & Entertainment team. This will including working together on:
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The expected base salary range for this position is from $263,250 - $295,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.
REPORTING LINE
This role will report to the Deputy General Counsel
ABOUT CONDE NAST LEGAL
The Conde Nast Legal & Policy team is led by the General Counsel and is led from our International HQs in London and New York. Our team also comprises our Legal teams based in our various markets around the world. We are also supported by a network of outside counsel where necessary.
Our Purpose
The Purpose of the Conde Nast Legal team is to help our business, shareholder and colleagues:
Make more informed decisions; Solve and prevent legal and business problems; Conduct business in the right way (and prove that they have done so); Protect their assets, brands and people
We achieve our Purpose by:
Providing advice and training Resolving issues and disputes Developing legal systems, processes, policies, documents and tools that enable proactive legal risk management Creating and managing legal documents and record records Tracking and monitoring the external legal and policy trends that will shape the Digital, Publishing and Luxury marketplace of the future.
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Conde Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.