General Counsel (Fully Remote)

This is a Full Time Job

General Counsel (Fully Remote)

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The Role
As Cinereach's General Counsel, you will build the legal infrastructure that enables the organization to compete in the entertainment industry while maintaining nonprofit compliance rigor. You'll provide the operational legal excellence and strategic coordination that allows Cinereach to deploy funds, scale content partnerships, and explore innovative revenue models.

You're joining as Cinereach tests innovative approaches to narrative systems investing, building legal operations that enable both current deployment of funds and future growth.

Strategic Partnership & Coordination (30%)
• Coordinate multiple specialized external counsel (nonprofit/tax, entertainment, fund structures) and synthesize their guidance into actionable business frameworks and templates
• Participate in cross-functional senior leadership discussions with investment, content affairs, partnerships, and finance teams
• Advise on what Cinereach can and cannot do within its nonprofit structure as it explores new business models, maintaining an optimistic attitude that a creative solution likely exists to meet almost any challenge
• Partner with finance and fund development leadership to understand legal implications of various funding models and investment structures
• Support organizational leadership through strategic transition period, building legal foundation flexible enough for future strategic evolution

Entertainment/Media Operations (45%)
• Draft, review and negotiate content partnerships, production agreements, and distribution deals in partnership with Content Affairs team
• Develop standardized contract templates for recurring deal structures (development agreements, co-production deals, partnership frameworks)
• Provide timely legal guidance that enables rather than delays business operations in fast-moving entertainment industry context
• Support capital deployment with investment agreement review and co-investor partnership documentation
• Manage intellectual property strategy and rights management across Cinereach's creative portfolio and ensure compliance with ongoing third-party contractual obligations
• Support revenue diversification pilots including fee-for-service consulting and Story Lab programming

Legal Operations & Compliance (25%)
• Build legal operations systems and processes that support efficient, scalable operations
• Draft corporate resolutions, employment offer letters and consulting contracts, vendor agreements and other required legal documentation for organizational operations
• Manage external counsel relationships across multiple specializations, determining when to leverage outside expertise versus handling matters in-house
• Ensure compliance with 501(c)(3) requirements, employment law, and relevant entertainment industry regulations
• Develop and maintain impeccable institutional knowledge systems, paper trails, and archives
• Manage the organization's corporate entity structure, subsidiary formation and dissolutions
• Help liaise with Cinereach's insurance brokers/ underwriters on insurance matters

Qualifications

Legal Credentials (Required)
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school
• Active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction in good standing
• Ability to practice or obtain authorization to practice in relevant jurisdictions for entertainment and nonprofit work

Entertainment/Media Legal Experience (Required)
• 10+ years legal experience with significant entertainment, media, or content industry focus
• Demonstrated experience negotiating and executing complex media agreements (production, development, distribution, co-production)
• Understanding of contemporary media landscape including streaming, digital distribution, and content partnership models
• Track record of providing practical business guidance that keeps creative projects moving at industry pace
• Comfort with rights management, clearances, and intellectual property issues in media production

Nonprofit or Public Sector Experience (Strongly Preferred)
• Experience at the intersection of nonprofit organizations and commercial activity, ideally in arts/culture sector
• Exposure to 501(c)(3) compliance challenges, hybrid structures, or impact investing models
• Understanding of how mission-driven organizations navigate earned revenue and investment activities

In-House Legal Leadership (Required)
• Experience managing legal functions internally
• Track record of building legal infrastructure-templates, processes, frameworks-that enabled organizational efficiency and scale
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate external specialized counsel while building in-house capability
• Experience determining when to build in-house expertise versus leverage outside specialists
• Comfort operating as sole in-house counsel with strategic external counsel coordination

Bonus Qualifications:
• Fund structure or investment legal experience
• Experience in emerging business models at the intersection of multiple legal domains
• Entertainment industry network and relationships

What we offer
• Salary Range $150,000-$170,000 depending on experience
• Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) matching, health insurance, generous holiday, vacation and sick leave
• Remote-first organization with quarterly in-person gatherings
• Opportunity to build legal infrastructure for a creative organization testing innovative approaches at the intersection of storytelling and systems change
• Collaborative culture that values both strategic thinking and practical execution
• Partnership with Content Affairs team working with high-caliber creators and compelling projects
• Professional development support and access to specialized external counsel relationships
• Potential for role evolution as organization scales and permanent CEO defines future strategy

Hiring Practices
Cinereach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit and Company needs. Cinereach does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, or mental or physical disability.

At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis. Unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship.

To Apply
Please submit your resume to jobs@cinereach.org with subject line: ''General Counsel.''