Director, Legal - Data and Content

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Team: AlphaSense has a great opportunity for a Director, Legal - Data and Content to join our growing legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company's fast-paced environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial growth targets while managing risk and protecting our business. About the Role: This role will be based remotely in the United States, with a strong preference for the East Coast. As Director, Legal - Data and Content, you will serve as the strategic lead for our data and content legal function. You will be directly responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating our most complex commercial data and content contracts while developing and managing a small team to scale the department's output. Your remit includes reviewing, drafting, negotiating sell-side research licensing agreements, exchange and financial data/content agreements, distribution and aggregation agreements, and vendor contracts relating to the global acquisition and licensing of content. In addition to being a hands-on negotiator, you will serve as a trusted legal advisor to internal stakeholders, including senior executives of the company, providing expert guidance on content/data rights and strategy. Reporting to the SVP of Legal, you will partner with all levels of the business—including Content, Sales, Marketing, and Product—to build a scalable legal framework that supports AlphaSense's high-growth goals. This role is essential to our expansion and offers the opportunity to shape a team in a dynamic, fast-paced culture. Who You Are: J.D. from an ABA accredited law school and admission to, and good standing with, a state bar; Minimum of 8+ years' experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various agreements relating to the licensing of content/data (including but not limited to sell-side investment research and market data) and advising stakeholders on related matters with experience in-house at a broker-dealer, investment bank, or financial data provider; Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations relating to intellectual property, financial data/research, compliance, financial regulation, securities, privacy, and other federal, state, and local laws; Ability to review and negotiate commercial contracts including Master Services Agreements, Services Agreements, SOWs, Service Level Agreements, Data Licensing Agreements, Content Distribution Agreements, Orders Forms, NDAs, etc.; Superior business acumen with an unrivaled commitment and deep-seated need to provide responsive client service to our teams and get things done; approaches responsibilities with a business friendly and pragmatic mindset while maintaining a commensurate balance of l