What you'll do:

Lead the Company’s day-to-day deal-making with networks, streaming services, producers, and talent across unscripted, scripted and audio development and production
Negotiate and draft all common agreements within the entertainment industry including television series license and sale agreements, producer agreements, talent agreements, option purchase agreements, life rights agreements, etc.
Create and lead an internal production legal function that provides prompt, relevant and clear guidance to the company’s unscripted productions and responds to their show-level legal needs
Seek to improve the company’s precedents with buyers while driving appropriate consistency across the Company’s various initiatives and projects
Provide practical, thoughtful business advice to company leadership to further the Company’s stated short- and long-term objectives
Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders including internal personnel, the Company’s agents, third party representatives, buyers, and potentially talent

What we think you’ll need:

4-8 years of relevant experience in the Business and/or Legal Affairs department at a company doing regular business at the highest levels of the entertainment industry
A background in production legal and working directly with show staff
A broad understanding of the issues and variables contained within common entertainment industry agreements
A friendly, relationship-driven approach to solving complex problems
A strong desire to see things done thoroughly and correctly
The ability to work collaboratively but also independently to get many things done while maintaining the vision to know when to stop and ask for support
A flexible and entrepreneurial nature and the willingness to work in a startup environment where structural support may not be available
A JD and admission into a state bar (preferably CA)