Senior Counsel, Global Content Licensing (DTC)

About the Role & Team

The Legal Department is seeking an experienced attorney to join the Global Content Licensing team supporting Disney’s direct-to-consumer businesses. This role will focus primarily on providing strategic advising with respect to operation of the Hulu + Live TV service, other content licensing agreements across Disney’s streaming ecosystem, and performing due diligence, with an emphasis on operational excellence and strong cross-functional partnership.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment, supporting key distribution partnerships and stakeholders across the business. The role is well-suited for an attorney with a strong foundation in content distribution (specifically, with respect to DMVPDs and/or MVPDs carriage deals) who is interested in deepening their expertise in a fast-paced environment, with the opportunity to gain exposure to more complex deal work over time.

The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable managing a high volume of work while exercising sound legal judgment. This individual will play a key role in supporting ongoing distribution initiatives and contributing to the efficiency and scalability of the legal function.

What You Will Do

• Conduct contract diligence and summarize key terms, rights, obligations, and restrictions for legal and business audiences

• Advise internal stakeholders on contractual requirements and legal considerations for live, linear, and distribution-related programming

• Assistin the execution and ongoing management of distribution agreementsand operation of Hulu + Live TV, ensuring alignment with business and legal requirements

• Partnerwith cross-functional teams to support distribution workflows and improve operational efficiency

• Support distribution initiatives for Disney’s direct-to-consumer services, including live events and similar offerings

• Exercise independent legal judgment on key initiativesand draftrecommendation memos for senior legal and business stakeholders

• Identifyand escalate key legal considerations, risks, and issues as appropriate

• Contribute to the development of best practices, templates, and processesto improvelegal support for high-volume distribution work

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• At least 5 years of legal experience

• Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating content distributionagreements acrosstraditional cable and satellite providers (e.g.,MVPDs),new media platforms and/ordigitalMVPDs, and/orbackground in a law firm supporting similar clients is strongly preferred

• Strong contract interpretation,draftingand analyticalskills, with attention to detail and accuracy

• Ability to manage a high volume of work and multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent communicationand organizationalskills and ability to effectively partner with cross-functional teams

• Sound judgment and ability toidentifyand escalate legal risks as needed

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Interest in developing broader deal-making and negotiation skills over time

Education

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent from an accredited law school

• Strong academic credentials

• Admission to the California State Bar in good standing or willingness and qualification to be Registered In-House Counsel

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $177,100.00 to $229,100.00 per year and in New York, NY is $185,500.00 to $240,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Disclaimer

This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

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