UMT
VP, Legal
Brooklyn, New York · Vp
Sponsorship not specified$220k-$250kDetected 86 days ago
Business DevelopmentContract ManagementResearchLeadership
About the role
- The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more.
- We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
- The VP, Legal will serve as a key legal leader across the UnitedMasters enterprise, supporting UnitedMasters LLC and Translation LLC.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the C-suite and senior leadership to provide strategic legal guidance and risk analysis on key initiatives and company direction.
- Manage the internal legal team, setting priorities, allocating resources, and elevating overall legal function performance.
- Partner and coordinate with outside counsel, ensuring efficient execution, cost management, and alignment with company objectives.
- Lead development and implementation of scalable legal frameworks, policies, and best practices across the organization
- Oversee and manage enforcing rights, dispute resolution strategy, including pre-litigation, litigation, and settlement approach.
Requirements
- 8 to 15 years of experience, with a mix of reputable entertainment law firm and in-house experience
Compensation
- Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
- If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
- The salary range above is for the NY/CA.
- As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.
- $220,000 - $250,000
Company info
- UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
- The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
- We are looking for a VP, Legal to join UnitedMasters.
- The VP, Legal will serve as a key legal leader across the UnitedMasters enterprise, supporting UnitedMasters LLC and Translation LLC. This role operates at a strategic level, advising the business on risk, commercial structures and transactions, strategy and corporate initiatives, expansion and partnerships, while managing the legal team and working closely with executive leadership.The position is designed to help shape legal and business strategy across music, music technology and advertising.
- UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow.
- UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties.
- Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
- This role operates at a strategic level, advising the business on risk, commercial structures and transactions, strategy and corporate initiatives, expansion and partnerships, while managing the legal team and working closely with executive leadership.The position is designed to help shape legal and business strategy across music, music technology and advertising.
- This role is based in Brooklyn, New York with four days in-office and one day remote.
This listing is sourced directly from UMT's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.