Senior Business Affairs Manager

MediaMonks is on the lookout for one (1) Senior Business Affairs Manager to join the in-house Legal & Business Affairs team, which works closely together with our content production teams.

Location: This is primarily a remote role, but you will work with clients and other team members across North America. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York preferred.

This role is to strategize and advise on all Business Affairs matters for the production of our award-winning projects across Studio.Monks, which delivers on a wide range of film & content end-to-end projects locally and internationally. The roles include budgeting, commercial & talent rights clearance, contract review and negotiation, and working with legal to resolve any issues that
may arise during production.

Role & Responsibilities

• In this role you will be part of the MediaMonks Americas Legal & Business Affairs team and provide production support to all MediaMonks companies in the Americas.
• You will take the lead in all Business Affairs matters, working alongside agency producers for timely bidding of projects, finalizing client estimates, negotiating various production-related agreements, declaring production insurance, and advising on all compliance and clearance matters.
• You will handle talent for both SAG Union and Non-Union productions; estimating talent session and usage costs, issuing and interpreting all talent contracts and advising on usage rights and other related issues, processing payments and drafting final completion reports for tracking purposes.
• You will also be responsible for the wrap-up process for all of our Live-Event and Film productions together with the Lead EP or producer on the production.
• You will work closely together with our internal legal team, including the VP, Legal & Business Affairs, with regards to production, intellectual property rights management, music rights, talent rights, and other clearance matters.
• Functional reporting to the Director of Business Affairs (with oversight of VP, Legal & Business Affairs) for input in connection with matters relating to your day-to-day responsibilities. 

Requirements:

• At least 5-7 years of professional experience, in-house experience is required — preferably within the digital production industry.
• Demonstrable skills in strategic Business Affairs. Enthusiasm to work in a team, but also independence to work with minimal supervision.
• Fluent in English. Any other language skills are a bonus.
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills.
• Experience with content and media production and right clearance.
• In-depth knowledge of Union requirements.
• Flexibility and willingness to take on tasks in new areas of the industry.
• Confidence in your business/commercial awareness.
• The ideal candidate will be proactive, hands-on, result-oriented, and able to work under pressure of tight deadlines and accuracy. In other words, a self-starter with a strong work ethic.

Come Join Our Team

Building your budding Business Affairs experience, this job will allow you to develop your skill set in an international work environment, filled with many of the nicest people in the industry. You’ll join the brightest creative production company this side of the solar system and be part of a successful and super-fast-moving-(and-growing) organization.

Compensation

The anticipated salary range for this position is $95K - $120K annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. 

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smar