Senior Counsel, Product and Privacy

Versant Media, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Benefits package

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Versant Media, LLC seeks a thoughtful and practical Senior Counsel to join its corporate Privacy Legal team. You will provide product, privacy, and data protection advice across Versant's global businesses, collaborating with Product, Technology, Data, Advertising, Marketing, and Security teams.

You will translate legal requirements into workable business decisions, help manage risk, and support commercial negotiations while scaling the legal function across a growing organization.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 7+ years of relevant legal experience counseling on product, technology, privacy and related matters.
• Ability to provide clear, practical advice to stakeholders at all levels and take ownership.
• Willingness to dig into technology, products, data flows, and new subject matter.

Responsibilities

• Provide product counseling across the lifecycle with cross-functional teams.
• Advise on privacy, data protection, consumer protection, AI, marketing and related laws.
• Translate legal requirements into practical business decisions and risk solutions.
• Support commercial matters by reviewing and negotiating data, privacy, and terms.
• Develop playbooks, training, and processes to scale legal support.
• Monitor legal and tech developments to adapt guidance as products evolve.

Skills

Judgment & communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Curiosity about technology

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Job description

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

VERSANT is looking for a thoughtful, practical, and curious attorney to join its corporate Privacy Legal team as Senior Counsel. This role will provide product, privacy, and data protection advice across VERSANT's global portfolio of businesses, products, and services.

This is a role for a lawyer who enjoys learning how things work, solving problems, and helping teams turn ideas into products and experiences. You will work across the enterprise with Product, Technology, Data, Advertising, Marketing, Security, and other business teams, while also partnering closely with legal colleagues and subject-matter experts.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide product counseling across the lifecycle. Partner with business, product, technology, engineering, data, and other teams from ideation through development, launch, and ongoing operation of products, services, features, and initiatives.
• Advise across a broad range of digital and consumer issues. Provide practical guidance on privacy and data protection, consumer protection, artificial intelligence, marketing, subscriptions, and other laws affecting digital products and services.
• Translate legal requirements into business decisions. Identify meaningful legal and regulatory risks related to product and privacy, explain their practical impact, and develop workable solutions.
• Support commercial matters as needed. Collaborate with other legal teams to review, draft, and negotiate data, privacy, and other terms impacting our digital products.
• Help the team scale. Develop practical guidance, playbooks, training, and processes that make legal support more consistent, efficient, and useful across a growing organization.
• Stay current and help shape our approach. Monitor relevant legal, regulatory, and technology developments and help the team adapt its guidance as products, business models, and laws evolve.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 7+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience counseling on product, technology, privacy, data, consumer, and related matters.
• Excellent judgment and communication skills, including the ability to provide clear, practical advice to stakeholders at all levels, take ownership of matters, and know when to collaborate or elevate.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple matters and shifting priorities.
• Willingness to dig into technology, products, business models, data flows, and subject matter that may be completely new to you.

Preferred Experience

• Prior in-house experience counseling product, technology, data, and other digital teams.
• Experience with digital media, streaming, connected television, advertising technology, analytics, identity, personalization, AI, or other data-driven products and services.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating technology, privacy, data, or related commercial agreements and terms.

How We Work

We care about the quality of our legal work and how we work together. We value lawyers who are practical, collaborative, low-ego, and comfortable giving advice when the answer is not clear. We want people who approach business partners with curiosity, are willing to roll up their sleeves, and want to contribute to a legal team that shares expertise and learns from one another.

We don't expect anyone to know everything. We do expect strong judgment, initiative, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to learn, take on new problems, and keep growing as lawyers while helping the team and VERSANT succeed.

Additional Requirements

• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. Subject to change based on business need. This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.
• Salary range: $165,000-$190,000 (bonus & LTI eligible)

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.