Full time
Major League Baseball
New York, NY
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 & Legal Affairs team, as required. Responsibilities 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 Structure, draft and negotiate wide variety of other...

