Job Description:
We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.
About the Role:
Reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, the Counsel is a specialist individual-contributor role within Wiley’s Legal function supporting the company’s content licensing, intellectual property, and technology transactions work. The role partners with business and legal stakeholders to draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements – with a particular focus on emerging technologies and content licenses, text-and-data-mining (TDM) rights, and platform/partner agreements under different frameworks. Working independently with guidance on the most complex matters, the Counsel applies in-depth IP and licensing knowledge to interpret business issues, recommend balanced positions, and help mitigate risk, while building expertise in emerging AI and technology legal questions and supporting the development of templates, playbooks, and legal-technology workflows.
Job Responsibilities:
Draft, review, and negotiate copyright, data-licensing agreements, and other IP transactions – including partner and platform agreements, and tech-driven transactions – negotiating directly with customers, partners, and vendors and their counsel, with senior-counsel support and escalation on novel or high-value issues.
Identify, assess, and help mitigate legal risk in assigned contracts, conduct legal research on emerging technology, TDM, copyright, and data-rights questions, and manage workflows to ensure proper alignment between internal stakeholders.
Support and improve contracting infrastructure: develop and maintain templates, clause libraries, and playbooks; collaborate with contracts team on adoption of Contracts Lifecycle Management (CLM) system for business lines supported; help build and adopt legal-tech / AI-assisted review and automation workflows.
Act as a liaison between Legal and other business units, provide training and guidance on IP/licensing issues.
Required Qualifications:
Juris Doctor (JD)/LL.M. or equivalent law degree; admitted/qualified to practice law in New York and in good standing.
1–4 years’ post-graduation from law school experience in copyright, commercial/transactional, and technology law (law firm and/or in-house); demonstrated contract drafting and review experience and negotiating commercial agreements directly with external parties and their counsel.
Strong contract drafting and negotiation; sound knowledge of copyright and licensing principles; clear communication; high attention to detail; sound independent judgment. Specify proficiency levels clearly (beginner, intermediate, expert)
Proficiency with MS Office and document/contract tools, AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, and/or specialized legal tools such as Westlaw; ability to translate commercial drivers into balanced contract terms; risk identification and escalation.
Organized and detail-oriented; manages a varied workload and competing deadlines independently; takes ownership and accountability for outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with AI and data services licensing and negotiations, SaaS/platform agreements, or similar rights; exposure to publishing, media, or information-services businesses and related legal issues.
Genuine interest in AI and emerging technologies; comfort learning new legal-tech tools; analytical, process-improvement mindset.
We power infinite possibilities.
For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere.
We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.
Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.
Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.
We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary Range:
140,000 USD to 200,733 USD
Wiley is a global knowledge and learning company that has transformed knowledge into discoveries for more than 200 years. The company operates across science, education, and publishing, driving scientific breakthroughs and advancing learning through innovative products and services. Wiley's global team creates impact through scholarly journals, educational platforms like zyBooks, and publishing solutions that reach customers worldwide. The company is focused on accelerating scientific progress, sparking innovation, and improving lives through their work in academic publishing and digital learning.
