Senior Counsel, Product & Tech Contracts

Discovery Education UK; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance package

Tuition reimbursement

Mentorship program

Job summary

Discovery Education in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to serve as a trusted legal partner across teams, reporting to the General Counsel. The role covers vendor, procurement, and operational matters, including data privacy, AI governance, and marketing compliance.

You will help align legal effort with business risk, triage requests, and support scalable, self-service approaches while advising on products, content, and customer impact.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar.
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including in-house, government, or law firm experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on a broad range of agreements.
• Sophisticated, practical contract drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to balance business objectives, customer commitments, operational needs, and appropriate legal risk management.
• Experience counseling a product or technology organization, including advising on how vendor and business arrangements may affect products, content, data, customers, or operations.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of diverse vendor, procurement, and operational agreements, including vendor and SaaS agreements, independent contractor agreements and SOWs, NDAs, and marketing and advertising arrangements, frequently on third-party paper.
• Issue-spot and triage incoming legal requests across business lines, managing competing priorities and varying urgency levels.
• Advise on data protection, COPPA, and privacy considerations in vendor arrangements, including data processing terms and appropriate handling of customer and student information.
• Spot and address routine trademark clearance, copyright, content-usage, gifting, sweepstakes, and related marketing compliance matters.
• Use technology, templates, playbooks, and lower-touch or self-service approaches to align legal effort to business risk and support efficient handling of routine work.

Education

J.D. and U.S. state bar in good standing

Job description

Discovery Education in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to serve as a trusted legal partner across teams, reporting to the General Counsel. The role covers vendor, procurement, and operational matters, including data privacy, AI governance, and marketing compliance.

You will help align legal effort with business risk, triage requests, and support scalable, self-service approaches while advising on products, content, and customer impact.