Senior Legal Counsel, Product and Digital

Nielsen seeks to hire a skilled, business-oriented lawyer to join the Legal Department’s Product & Digital Support team as Senior Counsel - Product & Digital supporting Nielsen’s Audience Measurement business. The successful candidate will play a meaningful role in supporting Nielsen's product development and deployment efforts and will work closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to identify and manage contractual, regulatory, privacy, and other legal risks. In addition to advising product-related teams, this position will draft and negotiate product, alliance, supplier and commercial sales agreements relating to data and information, licensing, technology, AI, and market research on the leading edge of the rapidly changing media landscape.

The ideal candidate is a dependable, solution-oriented attorney who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is energized by the challenges that come with the fast pace of transformation in the digital media space, who takes a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to matters, and who offers practical solutions that accommodate business needs and legal risks. Nielsen is seeking a good communicator comfortable engaging with internal and external clients to identify key issues and resolve matters. The Senior Counsel will work closely with development and engineering teams in a collaborative culture to provide advice and direction regarding compliance with contracts, internal policies and regulatory requirements (including AI and data privacy). This position will also draft and negotiate agreements with networks, streaming services, digital/social media companies, data suppliers, and service/equipment providers. The role provides an opportunity to make an impact on the media, entertainment and advertising industries at an exciting and transformative time.

Candidates will have the option to work in-office in New York, New York or to work remotely.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide legal support for product development, distribution and sales using an ability to understand, interpret and translate legal, business and technical concepts to provide practical and business-oriented opinions on legal risks and ensure appropriate contractual terms.
• Assess product features, functionalities, and designs, data processing proposals, and other product-related initiatives to identify potential legal issues, protect intellectual property rights, evaluate issues related to the use of AI, and ensure compliance with contractual commitments and regulatory requirements.
• Draft, review, negotiate and manage commercial contracts, including data supplier and integration agreements, inbound and outbound licenses, technology services agreements, alliance agreements, and supplier agreements.