Counsel

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, an