Senior Corporate Counsel

Discovery Education Talent Team•Charlotte, NC

2d•$170,300 - $189,200•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Corporate Counsel to serve as a trusted legal partner to teams across our business. Reporting to the General Counsel, this role will support vendor, procurement, and operational matters across business lines and support functions, including Product, Marketing, Finance, HR, IT, Security, Production, and Content. You will counsel on the goods, services, technology, and relationships that enable the business and our products to operate. This is a high-visibility role for an experienced attorney who can work independently, manage varied legal intake, exercise sound judgment, and escalate novel, high-risk, or strategically significant matters as appropriate. Beyond handling day-to-day legal work, you will contribute to improving how legal services are delivered by aligning legal effort to business risk and supporting smarter, more scalable ways of working. We are a tech-forward legal team. We run intake and triage through Asana, redline with an AI-powered contract tool, and use AI tools to search, analyze, and improve how we work. We value curiosity, experimentation, and practical adoption of tools that help the legal team deliver efficient, business-aligned support.

Requirements

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.
Demonstrated experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on procurement, vendor, technology/SaaS, independent contractor, SOW, NDA, and marketing-related agreements.
Experience counseling a product or technology organization, including advising on how vendor and business arrangements may affect products, content, data, customers, or operations.
Track record of working independently, managing competing priorities, and exercising sound judgment with appropriate escalation.
Curiosity and willingness to learn, adapt, and apply new tools, technologies, and ways of working.
Legal right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with data privacy, intellectual property, AI governance, and/or the education technology sector is a strong plus.

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.
Recognize when a vendor, procurement, or operational matter has broader product, content, data, or business implications and engage more deeply as a product-minded legal partner.
Partner with business and product stakeholders on important relationships, helping anticipate downstream impacts to our products, content, data, and customers.
Escalate novel, high-risk, or strategically significant matters to the General Counsel as appropriate.
Support the company’s review process for AI tools and vendors by providing legal and procurement perspective on use cases, vendor practices, contractual terms, and risk considerations alongside Security and other stakeholders.
Help ensure vendor contracts include appropriate protections related to AI, data use, confidentiality, intellectual property, security, and customer commitments.
Advise the business when AI is incorporated as a user-facing feature in our products, as part of counseling on significant product features.
Stay current on how vendors deploy and use AI, and help the business navigate associated legal and contractual considerations.