Business Affairs Lead

The pay range is $92,000.00 - $166,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About us: 

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. 

Target Creative is the in-house creative agency dedicated to bringing one of the world’s most beloved and recognizable brands to life. Whether through design, marketing or brand work, we are the driving force behind delivering Target’s dynamic, inventive and unmistakable storytelling to its massive global audience. Our mission is to inspire a sense of joy, wonder and excitement, and to take our guests—and ourselves—somewhere new. Never resting on past wins or settling for anything less than extraordinary, our origin story built us to thrive in the competitive and changing retail marketplace. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story, maximizing our messages across multiple platforms—whether via a digital art gallery or a new $1 billion children’s clothing brand. Operating as one fully integrated team in both the U.S. and overseas, Target Creative comprises the best and brightest talent to execute market-leading creative strategy, design, writing, video production, operations, digital, UX, social media and more. We leverage smart and rewarding external partnerships while closely aligning with our Target teams. Together, we tackle every creative challenge with our amplified strengths, ultimately bearing the groundbreaking creative work that helps make Target the decisive guest favorite, year after year. 

As a Business Affairs Lead you will manage all business facets of content partnerships and production, including production and talent agreements, licensing and clearances, scoping legal issues and interpreting contracts as they relate to specific productions across Target Creative. This role will also manage influencer/talent approach, negotiations, contracts and facilitate payment to ensure consistency and holistic oversight. You will have additional responsibility as the liaison between business and creative teams, external agencies and legal counsel to address and minimize liability/risk and create solutions.  You will work across all creative production helping establish best practices and firming up all business affairs related processes. 

You will also actively participate in defining how Business Affairs operates—helping to assess and adopt new tools and technologies that improve how the team works. You’ll maintain templates, standard terms, and team guidance materials to ensure they reflect up-to-date best practices and enable consistency. And you’ll play a key role in ensuring that front-line teams, leaders, and partners have access to the right information at the right time—empowering informed decisions at all stages of the creative and production process. 

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.  Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 

About you:  

• BA or JD preferred- an active legal license or bar admission is not required

• Expertise in business affairs, creative production and talent including influencer and celebri