At RCX Sports, we proudly serve as the premier youth sport operating partner for the NFL, NHL, MLS, MLB, NBA, and WNBA. We provide officially licensed uniforms, comprehensive resources, and dedicated support, empowering league operators to run the very best youth sports leagues and events in their communities. Our mission is grounded in the transformative power of sports. We’re dedicated to ensuring every child has the opportunity to play the game they love. By empowering league operators to effectively run and maintain their programming season after season, we’re committed to making youth sports accessible and inclusive for all.
The Vice President, Legal Counsel will establish and lead RCX Sports’ in-house legal function, serving as a practical, business-minded advisor to the executive team and cross-functional leaders. This role will bring routine legal work in-house, create scalable legal operations, and manage outside counsel for specialized matters—improving speed, controlling costs, and strengthening legal and regulatory risk management.
As an individual contributor reporting initially to the Chief Customer Officer, and the Chief Operating Officer long-term, this leader will serve as RCX Sports’ senior legal partner, overseeing commercial contracting and contract lifecycle management, compliance, youth protection matters, data privacy, intellectual property, employment-law support, policy governance, legal training, and legal operations. The role will establish and evolve the legal frameworks, policies, agreements, and governance practices that support the business, partnering closely with League Success, League Growth, Marketing, Programs, Events, InfoSec, People Operations, and other teams to define requirements, translate legal obligations into processes, and support effective execution.
Job Responsibilities:
Serve as a strategic legal advisor to the executive team and business leaders on corporate governance, compliance, risk management, employment matters, contracts, and key business decisions.
Draft, review, and negotiate sponsorship, supplier, vendor, service, partnership, licensing, media-rights, and other commercial agreements.
Own the full contract lifecycle, including intake, prioritization, templates and playbooks, approval workflows, execution, a central repository, renewals, obligations tracking.
Partner with functional owners and department heads to assign accountability, monitor fulfillment, review obligations regularly, and address gaps that could create business risk.
Build a legal intake and prioritization process with clear service levels and transparent tracking of open legal matters.
Develop and execute the legal department’s operating plan, annual budget, and reporting cadence.
Manage outside counsel relationships, including matter scoping, panel selection, rate negotiation, budgets, spend reporting, and decisions about when specialized external support is required.
Provide legal advisory support to the Foundation on nonprofit governance, program grants, agreements, and owned and operated league activities that expand access to youth sports, in partnership with Foundation and program leaders.
Create and maintain a company policy library with assigned owners and an annual review cycle, beginning with youth protection, data privacy, and employee policies.
Lead and document investigations involving alleged violations of youth protection policies and support broader safeguarding compliance, including background-check requirements, participant waivers, and league standards.
Design and execute a risk-based compliance audit program; track findings through remediation or closure.
Advise on data collection, processing, privacy, and security matters, including data involving minors, in partnership with InfoSec and operational teams.
Manage RCX Sports’ trademark and copyright portfolio, including prosecution, maintenance, enforcement, and related calendars.
Monitor legislative and regulatory developments…