Vice President – Legal Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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👔 Vice President

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RCX Sports

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

📣 Marketing

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

Marketing • Hospitality • Logistics

RCX Sports is the premier youth sport operating partner of professional sports leagues, providing officially licensed uniforms, resources, and dedicated support to league operators. With a focus on empowering youth engagement, RCX Sports manages youth leagues for NFL FLAG football, Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA basketball, and MLS GO recreational soccer, among others, serving over 2 million young athletes in North America. Their technology-driven solution simplifies league management, helping operators enhance their programs and create impactful sports experiences for children.

📋 Description

• Establish and lead RCX Sports’ in-house legal function • Advise the executive team and business leaders on governance, compliance, risk management, employment matters, contracts, and business decisions • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including sponsorship, supplier, vendor, service, partnership, licensing, and media-rights agreements • Own the full contract lifecycle, including intake, templates, playbooks, approval workflows, execution, repositories, renewals, and obligation tracking • Build legal intake and prioritization processes with service levels and matter tracking • Develop the legal department operating plan, annual budget, and reporting cadence • Manage outside counsel relationships, budgets, rates, scopes, and spend reporting • Provide legal support to the Foundation on nonprofit governance, grants, agreements, and league activities • Create and maintain the company policy library and annual review cycle • Lead investigations involving youth protection policy violations and support safeguarding compliance • Design and execute a risk-based compliance audit program • Advise on data privacy, security, and data involving minors • Manage the trademark and copyright portfolio • Monitor legislative and regulatory developments across operating states • Advise on professional-league partner requirements and contractual standards • Support People Operations on employment-law matters • Oversee litigation, disputes, insurance and claims matters, legal holds, records retention, entity maintenance, and corporate housekeeping • Advise on and negotiate leases, real estate agreements, capital expenditure contracts, and physical-asset agreements • Review terms of service, participant agreements, privacy notices, promotions, sweepstakes, endorsements, and content involving minors • Develop and deliver employee legal training • Establish legal metrics and provide leadership updates on risk, service levels, spend, contracts, compliance, and priorities • Report initially to the Chief Customer Officer and long-term to the Chief Operating Officer • Work as an individual contributor with no supervisory responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school • Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar • Eligibility to practice as in-house counsel in the employee’s work jurisdiction • 10+ years of relevant commercial and corporate legal experience • Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements • Experience working directly with executives and cross-functional stakeholders • Experience implementing contract lifecycle management, legal intake, matter tracking, document repositories, templates, playbooks, service levels, or comparable legal-operations systems • Ability to independently prioritize a broad portfolio of matters and determine when outside counsel is required • Experience managing outside counsel, legal budgets, matter scopes, and spend reporting • Experience conducting sensitive internal investigations and developing or administering compliance programs • Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills • Discretion to handle sensitive and confidential matters • Experience advising a multi-state organization and interpreting evolving federal, state, and local regulatory requirements • Ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal partners • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability insurance • 401(k) with company matching • Paid parental leave • Unlimited PTO • Monthly wellness expense reimbursement of up to $65 • Comprehensive benefits and insurance plans with no waiting period • Relaxed casual dress code • Work equipment provided, including laptop and monitor • Reimbursement of up to $350 toward a personal-use laptop, tablet, or computer • Additional voluntary benefits