Director / Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs
Warner Music Group
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Director/Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs
Job Description:
We currently have a fantastic opportunity to join our innovative and highly sought-after Business & Legal Affairs team at Atlantic Records.
Job Title: Director/Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs; Reports to Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel
A little bit about our team: The Business and Legal Affairs team at Atlantic is a close-knit group of passionate music attorneys. Our team negotiates record deals for Atlantic's entire roster of artists and manages the business and legal issues relating to the creation, distribution, monetization and marketing of our artists' music. Our team works directly with every department at the label, including A&R, marketing, artist development, PR, royalties, finance and sales.
Why this could be your next big break: Atlantic Records has been the leading record label by market share for the last several years due, in part, to our ability to adapt to, and innovate in, the constantly-evolving recorded music landscape. At the heart of our philosophy is a drive to enable our creative teams and artists to flourish in this new music environment. This is an opportunity to join one of the groups that is shaping the future of the music business.
Here you'll get to:
• Structure, negotiate, draft and review a wide variety of complex music industry agreements, including ''360'' recording agreements, label deals, profit split deals, soundtrack album agreements, producer agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and various types of licenses.
• Liaise with all other departments of the company to answer questions and ensure compliance with contractual and legal obligations
• Review artwork, audiovisual materials and marketing materials to determine potential legal issues and assess the possible risks associated with their distribution; supervise clearance process.
• Provide advice to Audit and Finance departments on contractual interpretation and audit strategy; negotiate and draft final settlements.
• Review royalty statements of major artists and statements which are substantially payable to ensure accuracy.
• Manage claims and outside counsel as necessary.
Rockstar candidates will have:
• J.D. and authorization to practice law in New York.
• Minimum of five years of legal experience, including significant intellectual property experience and at least two years of transactional work in the entertainment industry, preferably the music industry.
• Demonstrated drafting and negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively interact with a range of personalities and styles and establish effective relationships externally and internally at all organizational levels.
• Strongly self-motivated with demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a close-knit team.
• Sound and practical business judgment
• Ability to multi-task and balance competing priorities.
• Ability to work well in small, fast-paced department.
It would be music to our ears if you also had: Experience working in-house at a record label, music publisher or digital service provider (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, etc.) or working in private practice at a talent representation or intellectual property firm.
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