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VP & Head of Legal

Luminate · Los Angeles, CA · On-site

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About Luminate

Backed by Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

o Develop and maintain playbooks, templates, and processes to empower the sales team to execute standard deals independently and accelerate overall revenue operations while preserving Luminate’s legal protections. o Partner with product and engineering teams to provide proactive legal guidance on new product launches, feature development, and data methodology changes.

What they're looking for

  • J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and active member in good standing of the California State Bar (or eligible for California registration as Registered In-House Counsel)
  • At least 10-12 years of corporate and transactional legal experience. Several years of in-house experience at a technology, data, media, or SaaS company strongly preferred
  • Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex data licensing, SaaS, and technology agreements
  • Strong understanding of U.S. and international data privacy laws and their direct impact on data licensing
  • Direct experience managing the legal lifecycle of strategic M&A transactions, including due diligence, agreement negotiation and post-merger integration of acquired revenues and products
  • Comfort with technical concepts in data engineering, data pipelines, APIs, and analytics platforms sufficient to advise product and engineering teams effectively
More about this role

Luminate is the entertainment industry’s preeminent data and insights partner, serving as the single source of truth for record labels, film studios, talent agencies, and every part of the music and entertainment ecosystem. By aggregating data from over 500 verified sources, Luminate provides customers with the objective validation needed to make critical business decisions and track global market share. While its data famously fuels the Billboard Charts and the Variety Streaming Originals Charts, Luminate’s primary mission is to empower the entertainment industry with essential, accurate and objective data.

Luminate, the definitive data authority for the entertainment industry, fueling the most powerful media, tech, music and film companies on the planet, is seeking a Vice President & Head of Legal to provide day-to-day legal leadership across Luminate’s commercial, regulatory, and corporate matters.

This role requires a commercially minded, deal-focused corporate and transactional attorney who views legal as an engine for business growth. Reporting the CEO, the Vice President & Head of Legal will work cross-functionally with the sales, product and engineering teams, as well as...

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