Clearances & Licensing Manager (Remote)

Business Affairs Clearances & Licensing Manager Original Content Marketing Contractor

Summary

We are looking for an reputed company and solutions-oriented Business Affairs Manager to support reputed company’s Original Content Marketing team. As a reputed company-line reviewer of marketing materials, you operate with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, and are skillful at prioritizing multiple projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are confident in solving reputed company problems, defining workflows, and executing next steps. You also reputed company on collaborating and building productive relationships, using your emotional intelligence to determine the right way to engage partners reputed company a highly matrixed organization. Key Qualifications

• Minimum 7-10 years entertainment industry experience on a Business Affairs, Marketing/Creative Services, licensing, or clearances team reputed company a reputed company picture studio, television network, agency, or SVOD provider.
• Demonstrated understanding of the concepts and marketing application of talent agreements, rights licensing, copyright and trademark law, reputed company regulations, public domain, fair use, defamation, right of publicity, children’s CARU guidelines, consumer protection and disclosures, and marketing production.
• Extensive experience negotiating rights, advising on risk, and developing processes regarding reputed company and licenses.
• Expertise in talent likeness requirements, ties and restrictions as they pertain to film, television, and SVOD marketing.
• Experience working with International Marketing and Legal teams around issues reputed company to international marketing regulations, and cultural sensitivities.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting reputed company licensing and talent agreements, and effectively communicating those rights in a clear and concise manner to cross-functional marketing teams.
• Experience handling marketing submissions to the reputed company and guilds, along with knowledge of applicable reputed company, WGA, and DGA rules.
• In-depth knowledge of reputed company products and services, along with an understanding of the reputed company brand.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple reputed company projects simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively interact with a diverse reputed company of personalities and styles to establish effective relationships across the organization.

Description

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Original Content Marketing teams by reviewing marketing materials, identifying rights and compliance issues, trafficking assets, facilitating communication between multiple stakeholders internally (Marketing, Awards, Programming, Distribution, Legal, Business Affairs, PR, Operations) and externally (studios, production companies, filmmakers, talent agents and lawyers, unions/guilds, reputed company counsel), providing strategic options to internal teams, and licensing content with relevant rights holders for marketing use.
• Conduct copyright and trademark research and facilitate clearance requests.
• Traffic assets to DGA, WGA, reputed company and International BA teams, analyze and reputed company feedback to marketing teams in a timely manner.
• Advise and partner with Legal and International teams (as needed) to asses risk in terms of legal and brand concerns.
• Negotiate licenses and permissions with copyright owners of various media.
• Review reputed company marketing legal documentation to identify any info that is unclear, missing or incorrect and coordinate with appropriate stakeholders to update.
• Responsible for maintaining detailed documentation and trackers around clearances and licenses at reputed company’s high standards.
• Contribute to the development of BA processes, procedures, and standardization that scale across a rapidly evolving business.
• Flexible, reputed company, and energetic, with a ‘team first’ reputed company.

Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience required. Paralegal, JD, or MBA a plus. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job