Junior Counsel, Home Entertainment

This is a Full Time Job

A24 is seeking a Junior Counsel to join our Business and Legal Affairs team to focus on A24's home entertainment, licensing and distribution business. You should be a motivated self-starter with a strong interest and experience in distribution, the evolving ways in which audiences consume entertainment content and intellectual property. This role will be an integral member of a highly collaborative Business and Legal Affairs team and will be a key contributor on our growing team. This role is based in Los Angeles or New York, with a preference for New York.

Initial Responsibilities
• Develop deal structures, negotiate, and draft agreements for the licensing and distribution of feature films and related content across digital home entertainment channels. This includes agreements covering free and ad-supported VOD (FVOD/AVOD), subscription VOD (SVOD), transactional VOD (TVOD), electronic sell-through (EST), and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST), as well as premium pay TV, basic cable, free broadcast, and non-theatrical exhibition.
• Analyze, interpret, and advise on key terms in distribution agreements relating to rights, exclusivity, license periods, territories, financial terms, content protection, marketing obligations.
• Create and augment existing departmental resources pertaining to deal memo templates, longform agreements, contract management and precedent-tracking systems and other departmental processes and procedures.
• Establish and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships with regular, effective and timely communications concerning deal negotiation and business strategy.

Qualifications
• J.D. with strong academic performance and membership in good standing in California or New York bar.
• 4 years of related transactional experience working in house in a film legal affairs department and/or law firm.
• Strong understanding of digital home entertainment distribution models and the evolving ways in which audiences consume entertainment content.
• Strong attention to detail, project management and time management.
• Excellent writing and organizational skills, including clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, negotiating skills, strong drafting abilities and a can-do, no job is too small, team attitude.
• Able to break down complex issues and present them clearly to teammates, business partners and other key stakeholders.
• Professional individual who can build strong relationships, both internally and externally, and is able to comfortably interact with all levels of employees.
• Ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities, pivot quickly, think practically and be solution-oriented.
• Curious, diligent and resourceful.