Director Of Legal Business Affairs West Coast-Influential
Director of Legal & Business Affairs, West Coast
Fully Remote • Los Angeles, CA • Business and Legal operations
Influential is looking for an experienced, collaborative and highly motivated team player to join as our Director of Legal & Business Affairs, West Coast. This position will report directly to our Chief Legal Officer, EVP 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. The role is open to candidates living full-time in the Pacific Time Zone.
What we offer:
- Fully remote company – work from home
- Competitive compensation
- 20 Days annual Vacation PTO with inclusive holiday benefits
- 100% company paid medical, dental & vision insurance for employees
- Participation in stock option plan
- Fully vested 401(k) matching
- Stipends for at-home office setup, phone & wifi, health & wellness, and more
- An awesome collaborative work culture and diverse team
In general, on a typical day, you will:
- Review, edit and advise on legal correspondence and contracts, including agreements, amendments, SaaS licenses, SOWs, and NDAs
- 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 rights, media platforms, legal provisions, and industry and territory-specific laws and requirements
- Monitor changes to government guidelines and/or regulations
- Work with Legal team to assess advertising claims substantiation, prepare disclosures, disclaimers, and support sweepstakes, contest, and promotional offers
- 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
- Maintain and update internal resources for onboarding and team-specific trainings
- Additional responsibilities as delegated by the Chief Legal Officer
Requirements
Being a Director of Business & Legal Affairs requires:
- 5-8 years of relevant experience as a practicing attorney
- 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
- 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
- Experience in corporate and/or privacy law
- Working knowledge of and interest in Web3 and/or the Metaverse
About Influential
Influential is an AI-powered social data and conversion technology services company. Influential’s technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services to brands and agencies by leveraging a network of over 3 million social media influencers. Through strategic partnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential’s Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestle´, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.