Counsel

This is a Full Time Job

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.
Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled. Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day. If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

Overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for an attorney to join the legal department at Skydance based at the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles, with a focus on themed entertainment and live experiences businesses. The position will be an integral member of a team that provides day-to-day business and legal affairs services in support of experiences based on Skydance’s intellectual properties and brands worldwide, including in connection with theme parks, hotels, restaurants, live stage productions, immersive attractions and consumer products. The counsel will drive and close a variety of transactions, support a broad array of business and marketing initiatives and provide day-to-day advice to business and creative teams at all levels.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Draft and negotiate intellectual property license agreements, service agreements and other agreements in the global themed entertainment and experiences industry, such as theme parks, hotels, restaurants, live stage productions, concerts, and other immersive attractions and location-based entertainment experiences, as well as consumer products agreements
• Provide practical, strategic and actionable advice and counsel to business clients regarding review of projects in development, risk allocation and legal implications of proposed business opportunities and actions
• Communicate property rights analyses and handle rights acquisitions and third-party rights owner and talent relations where needed to execute business initiatives, including interaction with Broadway and film producers, third party rights owners and their representatives
• Analyze motion picture and television production, financing and distribution agreements, as well as agreements with actors, writers, directors and producers
• Review and provide guidance on design, creative and marketing materials
• Interact with and maintain channels of communication with key legal and business affairs personnel, and outside counsel, in technical areas including insurance/risk management, compliance, production, marketing, rights and clearances, compliance, trademarks and enforcement, unions and guilds, bankruptcy, privacy, standards & practices, and litigation

Basic Qualifications
• License to practice law in the state of CA (and in good standing); or qualified to promptly register as in-house counsel
• 4 years of transferable legal experience (ideally with a major media or entertainment company and/or law company)
• Must have experience managing transactional matters and dealing directly with clients
• Excellent drafting and negotiating skills, with experience drafting and negotiating entertainment or intellectual property agreements (ideally in the media or entertainment industries)
• Outstanding communication (written and oral), interpersonal, and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to build strong internal client and colleague relationships at all levels of the business, and successfully advise clients under conditions of uncertainty, high-pressure and/or high-risk and generate strong client satisfaction through quick turnaround, company decision-making and business judgment
• Proficiency at multi-tasking under time strain, managing and prioritizing a varied, high-volume workload efficiently and accurately, and operating autonomously within corporate parameters
• Exemplary time management skills
• Ability to understand numbers in business/financial context
• Ability to adapt legal work to a changing media and business landscape

Additional Qualifications
• The ideal candidate will be collaborative, positive, and team oriented. A sense of humor is a plus