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About the Role
Nielsen seeks a talented, enthusiastic, and business-oriented lawyer to join the Legal Department’s Product & Digital Support team as Legal Counsel, Product & Digital. This role supports Nielsen’s Audience Measurement business, focusing on product development and deployment. The successful candidate will work closely with product, partnerships, engineering, and data science teams to identify and manage contractual, regulatory, privacy, and other legal risks. This position offers an opportunity to make an impact on the media, entertainment, and advertising industries.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal support for partnerships, product development, distribution, and sales.
- Understand, interpret, and translate legal, business, and technical concepts to provide practical, business-oriented opinions on legal risks.
- Ensure appropriate contractual terms are in place.
- Assess product features, functionalities, designs, data processing proposals, and other product-related initiatives to identify potential legal issues.
- Protect intellectual property rights.
- Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and regulatory requirements.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts, including data supplier and integration agreements, inbound and outbound licenses, technology services agreements, alliance agreements, and supplier agreements.
- Draft and negotiate product, alliance, supplier, and commercial sales agreements relating to data and information, licensing, technology, and market research.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree and at least three years of legal experience as a lawyer.
- Experience in a digital media, digital advertising, ad tech, data analytics, or technology practice at a law firm and/or in-house.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements involving online media, consumer data, digital advertising technology, market research, and/or data products, including sales agreements with varied compensation structures.
- Working knowledge of internet, online, and mobile communications and connected-device technologies, such as IP protocols and addresses, device identifiers, cookies, content and ad delivery, APIs, and SDKs.
- Experience advising or supporting data-processing teams working with identity graphs or spines, data matching, data modeling and algorithms, identity resolution, and data clean rooms.
- Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations relating to contracts, technology and computer systems, licensing, intellectual property, and privacy.
- Working knowledge of intellectual property and data privacy law as they apply to consumer data.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Academic or professional background in computer science, engineering, or mathematics is preferred.
Skills
- Legal support
- Product development
- Partnerships
- Contract negotiation
- Regulatory compliance
- Privacy law
- Intellectual property
- Data privacy
- Digital media
- Digital advertising
- Ad tech
- Data analytics
- Technology law
- Commercial agreements
- Online media
- Consumer data
- Market research
- Data products
- Internet technologies
- Online communications
- Mobile communications
- Connected-device technologies
- IP protocols
- Device identifiers
- Cookies
- Content delivery
- Ad delivery
- APIs
- SDKs
- Data processing
- Identity graphs
- Data matching
- Data modeling
- Algorithms
- Identity resolution
- Data clean rooms
- Computer science
- Engineering
- Mathematics
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of legal experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctor degree
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- USD 97700.00 - USD 162800.00
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness plans
- 401(k) with a Nielsen company match
- Generous paid time off policy
- Company-provided vehicle (potential)
- Discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility (potential)
About the Company
- Nielsen is passionate about powering a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results.
- The company's talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed.
- Nielsen is rooted in its deep legacy and stands at the forefront of the media revolution.
- The company champions its employees, enabling their best to power Nielsen's future.
Equal Opportunity
- Nielsen makes hiring decisions without regard to disability status, protected veteran status, or membership in any other protected class.