Counsel, Warner Bros Discovery
Privacy & Data Strategy
Office located in Theobald's Road, London
Entertainment company
Open for applications
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Theobald's Road, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- Must be qualified as a UK solicitor or equivalent European legal practice qualification
- Preferably law firm experience but could be in-house provided you have undergone rigorous training
- Excellent negotiation, contract and other formal document drafting skills
- Strong advisory skills in consumer and/or employee data privacy, digital advertising, marketing, consumer protection and other related topics, familiarity with ad tech, data governance and information security a plus
- Knowledge of IP, commercial contract and adjacent legal experience desirable
- Entertainment industry and/or technology experience a plus
What the job involves
- The Privacy Legal team brings together a global team of legal and privacy professionals to drive WBD’s consumer-first global privacy strategy
- The Privacy & Data Strategy Legal team helps WBD’s global workforce comply with privacy and data-related legal requirements, provide personalized and innovative consumer experiences that meet business goals, and build consumer trust by embedding privacy-by design into products and initiatives and maintaining transparency, control, and optionality around data use
- Primary supporting role on core consumer data privacy matters enabling product launches, revenue-generating projects, BAU operations and risk management in WBD’s flagship streaming service (Max) and all other consumer brands, web and mobile properties, such as CNN, TVN, Discovery+, WB Games, Harry Potter and Eurosport. Acting as escalation point for individual rights request issues, privacy activist and consumer complaints, providing legal advice to key Tech stakeholders (GPS and CAKE) and CS teams on operating individual rights processes and systems
- Supporting Employment Legal and P&C on employee data privacy matters. This includes: employee monitoring issues, background checks, data privacy aspects of employee disputes, data protection aspects of Diversity & Inclusion projects, benefits issues, benefits vendor agreements, and general P&C queries; reviewing Artificial Intelligence use cases involving employee data and advising on mitigations. Supporting responses to employee Data Subject Access Requests (including complex issues connected to employee disputes, in close collaboration with Employment Legal, and working with Director, International Privacy - and VP Legal, Privacy & Data Strategy on high-risk matters)
- Assist with updating and maintaining consumer and workforce privacy policies; Assist with responding to data security incidents, where required; Assist with developing and delivering data protection training to WBD employees and group companies; Assist with global Privacy Controls Framework, assurance and audits
- Conduct legal analysis and research on data privacy laws around the world and maintain legal knowhow; create and comment on drafts of legal documentation including policies, guidelines, contracts, training materials and communication; support and oversee the completion of data protection impact assessments and other internal compliance documentation such as the Intra-group Agreement; analyzing data types and flows across the business (systems, processes and vendors), and how these relate to policy and regulatory requirements; work with local counsel where required to obtain advice, and manage compliance issues and documentation. If required, reviewing, negotiating and amending vendor agreements for compliance with GDPR requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
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Company values
- Act as One Team: Trust each other, succeed together, and growth together
- Create What's Next: Be curious, innovate, and focus on the future
- Empower Storytelling: Put creators, consumers and partners at the center, and share extraordinary stories
- Champion Inclusion: Empower others, have courage, and pursue equity
- Dream It & Own It: Advocate the mission, ove with speed, and drive results
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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