Undertone sits at the intersection of creative, data, and distribution, delivering award-winning creative experiences for the world’s leading brands. Through our synchronized digital branding solution, we deliver cohesive stories that reach consumers across the most important touchpoints, screens, and platforms. We eliminate fragmentation and ensure brand messaging is synchronized and perfectly aligned with campaign KPIs—always with beautiful creative and in brand-safe environments.
Our global legal team is handling some of the most intriguing legal and commercial topics relating to the rapidly developing ad tech and privacy regime. We are looking for an exceptional, passionate, proactive and business-savvy Senior In-House Legal Counsel to join our team in New York. In this role, you will support our business and all aspects of our commercial activity as well as various corporate matters. This is a great opportunity to work on exciting initiatives with a highly talented team.
Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee the legal work for North America for different business units in the group.
- Provide strategic analysis and implementation for North America while ensuring the organization’s policies and regulations are followed.
- Drive, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including master services, licensing, professional services, marketing, SaaS, and vendor agreements.
- Understand and ensure company-wide compliance with privacy & data protection laws and self-regulatory organizations in the AdTech industry.
- Conduct legal research and partner with the executive team to assess any new initiatives.
- Provide practical, business-oriented, strategic legal advice and recommendations to cross functional teams on a broad range of commercial and regulation matters.
- Understand complex privacy & data protection law and apply those concepts to challenging business processes.
- Oversee different aspects of legal matters including but not limited to corporate, employment, real estate, M&A, benefits, insurance and litigation.
- Collaborate with various teams in the organization to deeply understand the company’s products and practices and provide advice on best practices to ensure compliance with the applicable regulation.
- Establish and maintain business processes and internal policies aimed to scale the business and support corporate governance.
- Manage and facilitate relationships with outside counsels and work with other global team members in the global legal department.
Profile and Experience:
- A Juris Doctor from an accredited US law school and a license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction required
- A minimum of 7-10 years of experience practicing law in-house and/or at a law firm
- Experience in the AdTech/MarTech industry is required
- Experience with and a demonstrated knowledge in privacy and data protection laws and applicable self-regulatory organizations required
- Experience in working in a global a legal department and/or demonstrating strong leadership instincts.
- Solid knowledge of technology law and contract law and demonstrated success in an IP/technology licensing and commercial contract environment
- Knowledge of various regulatory, legal, and financial filings
- Pragmatic and business-focused, ability to resolve issues independently
- Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both orally and in writing, internally to legal colleagues and business clients and externally to customers and business partners
- Enthusiastic leader who enjoys taking ownership of projects and building relationships with individuals across a variety of functional teams
- Excellent interpersonal skills which will enable him/her to interact with a range of personalities and styles and be able to establish effective relationships at all levels of the organization
Undertone is committed to building a company whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. Our employees are hired, promoted, and rewarded on the basis of talent, performance, dedication and results. We embrace our diversity and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes all candidates without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, partnership status, ancestry, disability or veteran status.
What We Do
Undertone by Perion (NASDAQ: PERI) creates memorable ad experiences by thoughtfully orchestrating solutions across Display, Video, CTV, and DOOH to drive unmatched brand lift and audience engagement on virtually every screen, and every device. Their award-winning creative team uses the company’s 20 years of experience, and billions of impressions worth of data to intelligently craft campaigns that can drive full-funnel KPIs while making meaningful connections with the 200MM+ unique users they can reach every month. Undertone brings the art and science of advertising together to intelligently craft campaigns that uplift consumers, brands, and publishers alike.
Our growing, global organization includes the brightest, most creative, and passionate thinkers and doers in the industry. Our team wins awards for the service they provide and the products they create. Our unique culture, diverse training and development opportunities, and comprehensive benefits have earned us recognition as a "best place to work." We’re committed not only to getting the job done right but having fun as we do it.
The moment you walk through our doors, you get a sense of the vibrant personalities that make up our remarkable organization. Working at Undertone gives you the opportunity to shape the future of digital advertising, and the individuals who work with us are experts in their fields and passionate about their roles.
We work within a rapidly progressive industry where continuous education is a must, and we recognize and support that premise. We’re committed to training and developing our team, as well as bringing in new talent to lead and support the organization. If our goals and values align with yours, we want to hear from you. Start your search today by taking a look at our current openings.
Intelligent High Impact. Machine Learned. Creatively Designed
