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# Head of Legal, Prism Media LLC at Soros Fund Management

- **Company:** Soros Fund Management
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/familyoffice/jobs/7761211003

## Job description

Company Description

Prism Media LLC (“Prism Media”) is a newly established portfolio company of Soros Fund Management LLC (“SFM”), a global asset manager and family office with approximately $28 billion in assets under management.

Prism Media is a centralized operating platform that supports a growing number of leading digital media and information businesses within SFM’s Media Partnerships and Investments portfolio, including Crooked Media, First We Feast, Her Campus Media, and MeidasTouch Network.

The Prism Media team provides finance, legal, human resources, and operations capabilities to drive efficiency, enable growth, and help shape the next phase of each business.

## Role Overview

The Head of Legal will lead day-to-day legal work across SFM’ media portfolio. This includes contract review, partner and key vendor agreements, and senior employee and consultant agreements across portfolio companies.

The role serves as the primary legal partner to portfolio leadership and works closely with SFM’s central legal and compliance teams on investment transactions, material disputes, and regulatory matters. This role will collaborate with SFM’s legal resources within portfolio companies and/or external counsel where appropriate, while maintaining overall responsibility for ensuring work is delivered to a high standard.

In addition, this role will establish and maintain legal structures and governance frameworks across entities, ensuring consistency and scalability as the portfolio grows.

This is a full-time, New York-area role requiring four in-office days per week in our New York city office.

Major Responsibilities

Legal Advisory & Business Partnership

- Oversee day-to-day legal work across portfolio companies, including contract review, commercial agreements, and senior employee and consultant agreements
- Serve as the primary legal partner to portfolio leadership, providing practical, business-oriented advice on ongoing operations
- Work with SFM’s central legal and compliance teams on investment transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters, ensuring alignment with portfolio needs

Governance, Compliance, & Legal Frameworks

- Establish and maintain entity structures and governance frameworks across a mix of minority and controlled investments
- Set and maintain clear, practical legal standards (templates, policies, playbooks) across companies where consistency is helpful
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations across jurisdictions, working with internal and external partners as needed

Legal Operations & Infrastructure

- Manage and coordinate external counsel, including selecting firms, scoping work, and controlling costs
- Identify and implement off-the-shelf automation tools and processes to improve contract review, tracking, and legal workflows

What We Value:

- Bachelor’s degree and JD required, with excellent academic record
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in corporate law
- Experience working on both day-to-day commercial legal work (e.g., contracts, employment, vendor agreements) and transactional matters (e.g., investments, acquisitions, structuring)
- Enthusiasm to support multiple operating teams across a portfolio
- Interest in working across a portfolio of businesses, rather than a single company or purely investment-focused role
- Team player with a positive, “can-do” attitude
- Highly responsive, diligent, and detail-oriented
- Excellent organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Practical, business-oriented judgment
- Familiarity with standard legal tools (e.g., Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat); openness to use and adopt new tools, including AI, to improve workflows

What Success Looks Like

- Legal work is handled quickly and pragmatically, without slowing down operators or decision-making
- Portfolio leadership views legal as a responsive, business-oriented partner they trust and go to early
- Contracts and commercial agreements (including production, partner, and vendor agreements) are clear, consistent, and easy to use across companies
- Entity structures and governance frameworks are well-organized, easy to manage, and scale as new companies and transactions are added
- Legal practices are consistent across the portfolio where appropriate, without creating unnecessary process or rigidity
- SFM’s central legal and compliance teams are effectively leveraged on transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters, with clear roles and no duplication of work
- External counsel is used selectively and efficiently, with strong cost control and clear scoping
- Legal risks are identified early and addressed in a practical way that supports the business

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $320,000 to $350,000. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus.

## About Soros Fund Management

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A global asset manager and family office that serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, investing across all asset classes with a permanent capital base.
- **Entity Type**: Private (family office)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available from provided sources (widely reported as New York, USA)
- **Founded**: Over 50 years ago (c. 1970)
- **Founders**: George Soros

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Asset management, financial services
- **Target customers**: Institutional (exclusively family clients; does not solicit outside investors)
- **Mission**: Generate high-quality returns while upholding values of environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and driving systemic change (clean energy, economic equality, democratic practices).

## Products & Services
Soros Fund Management invests across a broad range of strategies and asset classes, including:

- **Public Equities & Credit**: Long/short equity, investment grade, high yield, distressed debt, structured products
- **Private Markets**: Direct lending (real estate, venture/growth, ABS, NAV, litigation finance), co-investments, private equity
- **Macro Strategies**: Rates, FX, equities (both discretionary and systematic)
- **Alpha Capture & Risk Overlays**: Central risk management and portfolio construction
- **External Manager Allocation**: Partnerships with top-tier external asset managers across public and private markets

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private family office)
- **Key Metric**: $28 billion Assets Under Management (AUM); 200 employees; 5 offices
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Open Society Foundations (primary client and capital source)
- **Growth Signals**: Permanent capital base allows long-term, patient deployment through market cycles; 50+ years of track record; active in both traditional and alternative strategies

## Competitive Advantages
- **Permanent capital base**: Enables long-term, patient investing and the ability to act decisively during market dislocations
- **Unconstrained mandate**: Flexibility to invest across asset classes, geographies, and strategies without style drift
- **Collaborative culture**: Open debate, direct access to senior leadership, and flat hierarchy foster better decision-making
- **Purpose-driven**: Alignment with Open Society Foundations’ mission allows investing with impact as a core criterion

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Driving the clean energy transition, combating economic inequalities, ensuring freedom of expression, and promoting democratic practices and rights
- **Investment approach**: Opportunistic, concentrated positions built on deep industry expertise; emphasis on smart risk-taking with long-term horizons

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Transparency, open debate, and direct engagement with senior leadership at all levels. Values include integrity, teamwork, humility, and ownership mindset.
- **Development**: Custom training programs, continuous learning, hands-on experience, and mentoring. Encourages constructive challenge and creative thinking.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical plans, mental health support, on-site gyms at every office, generous 401(k) matching, and profit-sharing.
- **Work model**: Not explicitly stated; emphasis on in-person collaboration suggests an office-centric culture with multiple global locations.

## Sources
1. [Soros Fund Management Homepage](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/)
2. [Soros Fund Management About Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/about/)
3. [Soros Fund Management Careers Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/careers/)
4. [Soros Fund Management What We Do Page](https://sorosfundmgmt.com/what-we-do/)

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