Responsibilities: The role of Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs reports to the Senior Vice President, Head of Business and Legal Affairs, and is part of a team responsible for providing business and legal affairs services for scripted and unscripted programming, content acquisitions and live entertainment across Versant’s portfolio of television entertainment networks, including USA Network, Oxygen, E! and SYFY. Job Duties: Provide senior-level business and legal affairs services during development, production and delivery of original productions, including structuring, negotiating and drafting business and legal terms for production services, co-productions, studio licenses, rights agreements, showrunners, on-camera talent, writers, and other above-the-line personnel. Draft and negotiate agreements for licensing of acquired television series, motion pictures and specials and serve as a business and legal affairs point of contact for content acquisition business partners. Interface with production service companies during all phases of development and production and advise and collaborate with all key internal departments including creative, production, risk management, intellectual property, labor, and other groups on production matters. Manage other legal personnel on the team and work closely with internal departments to implement best practices and formulate new processes in connection with Versant’s emerging business needs.