NBCUniversal is seeking a Vice President Legal AI Innovation and Acceleration to serve as the lead business lawyer for the newly formed AI Innovation and Acceleration group. In addition this role will coordinate legal advice across the legal matrix including business and corporate functions. This role will report to the General Counsel Corporate Legal Affairs Operations & Technology. The role will focus on guidance and risk assessments involving artificial intelligence machine learning and other new technologies as needed. This is a great opportunity to work on complex and evolving legal frameworks in an exciting fastpaced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice and support on matters pertaining to the newly formed AI Innovation and Acceleration group. Serve as legal point of contact with AI Innovation and Acceleration group senior management to provide practical and actionable legal advice and strategic risk management.
- Coordinate with business and legal teams across the enterprise to deliver seamless legal support to the new team. Collaborate with corporate and business legal teams including experts from Intellectual Property Privacy Cyber Employment Legal Operations and Compliance teams.
- Collaborate to develop and execute on best practices for operationalization of new technology with focus on artificial intelligence.
- Serve as legal representative for Gen AI Innovation and Acceleration group in corporate AI governance including representing the group in legal and risk committees.
- Contract negotiation and drafting for AI and new technology agreements.
Qualifications :
Required Qualifications:
- A law degree from an accredited institution and at least 10 years of experience in transactional law practice with significant experience in the entertainment or technology sectors preferred
- Must be a member in good standing of a State Bar
- Strong knowledge of and interest in AI and its applications and the legal and regulatory challenges it presents for entertainment companies
- Excellent drafting negotiation and communication skills
Desired Characteristics:
- A proactive collaborative and solutionoriented approach
- Creative problemsolving capabilities good business instincts and the ability to propose practical solutions when presented with novel issues
- A strong sense of ownership sound judgment in ambiguous situations and superior professionalism integrity and ethics
- Handle complex and fastpaced projects with multiple stakeholders
- Work well independently and as part of a team
- Effectively distill complex legal issues in a manner suitable for the audience in written and verbal form
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be willing to work in New York NY
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
- This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
- 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. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $200000 $280000 (bonus and longterm incentive eligible)
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals 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.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime