General Counsel

AccuWeather is searching for a dynamic General Counsel to join its leadership team. The General Counsel leads AccuWeather's Legal Services team and serves as chief legal advisor to the CEO and business leaders across a global B2C digital media business, and enterprise B2B weather-data and insights business, and a linear broadcast/OTT network. This role owns the company's legal risk, commercial contracting, IP, privacy, and litigation strategy, and is responsible for modernizing the legal functions, including through the adoption of AI-enabled tools and workflows to deliver faster, leaner, and more scalable legal support to the business.

The position is located on-site at AccuWeather's Headquarters in State College, PA  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Legal Operations & AI-Driven Efficiency

• Champion the adoption of AI legal tools (contract lifecycle management, legal research, drafting assistance) to cut cycle time, reduce outside counsel spend, and scale the legal team's output.
• Build and own the company's internal AI governance framework and advise the business on legal and regulatory risk arising from its own use and development of AI.
• Redesign commercial contracting and other legal workflows for speed, consistency, and measurable efficiency gains.
• Structure and manage the internal legal team and legal support staff; manage outside counsel relationships and budget for cost-effective coverage.

Commercial & Corporate Transactions

• Negotiate and draft high-value commercial agreements, including content and technology licensing, strategic partnerships and alliances, and ad-tech platform arrangements.
• Serve as lead legal advisor on M&A, divestitures, joint ventures, and corporate investment transactions.
• Advise on financing activity, including business and legal-entity structuring.
• Advise on content delivery and distribution issues across broadcast, cable, and OTT platforms.

Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Regulatory

• Act as subject-matter expert on consumer data privacy for a digital media company with a global user base, and monitor emerging privacy, cybersecurity, and AI regulation for business impact.
• Partner with Security and IT on cybersecurity risk, vendor data-processing terms, and incident response.
• Ensure company-wide compliance with applicable domestic and international laws and standards.

Litigation, IP & Risk

• Direct litigation strategy and outside counsel on matters filed by or against the company; approve settlements.
• Protect the company's intellectual property portfolio, trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets — including strategy for complex IP litigation.
• Oversee contract enforcement and delinquency collections.

Corporate Governance & Board Support

• Serve as key advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors on corporate governance, risk, and major transactions.
• Participate in defining corporate policies, procedures, and programs, and advise on their legal implications.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• JD and 15+ years of relevant experience, including service as General Counsel or senior in-house counsel in a corporate environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong working knowledge of AI legal tools and a demonstrated record of using AI to drive legal-department efficiency (not just familiarity, but hands-on experience selecting, implementing, or championing AI tools in a legal setting).
• Broad intellectual property experience, including patent law, IP licensing, and IP due diligence.
• Working familiarity with employment law and compliance investigations (DOL/OFCCP).
• Proven ability to negotiate and draft complex, high-value contracts and to quickly analyze agreements from varied origins.
• Strong executive presence; able to advise and present to senior management, the Board, and international clients and partners.
• Experience managing a team of attorneys and legal support staff and managing outside counsel cost-effectively.
• Experience with corporate governance matters involving a Board of Directors.
• General knowledge of tax laws and standards as they relate to corporate transactions.
• Must reside in State College, PA, or be willing to relocate to the State College area.

Preferred

• Experience in digital media, broadcast/OTT, or a comparable data- or platform-driven industry.
• Exposure to board governance, M&A processes, or strategic planning cycles.
• Experience directing strategy for complex IP litigation.
• Experience managing or coordinating cross-functional teams without direct authority.

About AccuWeather and Dr. Joel N. Myers

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Over one billion people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination globally and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to tens of millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 250 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, Samsung, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chair, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. Dr. Myers was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame, Class of 2026, in recognition of his role in revolutionizing weather forecasting through teaching, research, and building AccuWeather into one of the world’s major sources of weather data, forecasts, and warnings.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.  
 
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.