Manager, Digital Legal Affairs, APAC
Found in: Talent HK C2 - 1 week ago
Job Description:
At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.
As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we’re a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we’re committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.
A little bit about our team:
Warner Chappell Music’s Global Digital team is responsible for growing revenues through all forms of digital exploitation and finding new and innovative ways to grow our business in a way that underlines the value of our incredible catalogue of work. The team is responsible for identifying, negotiating with, and drafting contracts with digital service providers (“DSPs”) and also works internally with WCM affiliates, Global Admin, and Finance teams to ensure that all music usage reporting is delivered accurately, and the relevant payments from our DSP partners are made on time. In addition, the team works across multiple territories, either directly or in a support role, advising our international affiliates and sub-publishers. This role is a new position in the team and supports our two Senior Directors, Digital Legal Affairs (based in London and the US) and VP, Digital, Asia Pacific (based in our Malaysia office). Work location may base in Hong Kong or Singapore.
Why this could be your next big break:
Warner Chappell Music is at an extremely exciting juncture in its history. The company has experienced strong double-digit growth over the past few years. Solid industry dynamics coupled with a new management team backed by our long-term owner, Access Industries, provides a very unique company, team, and opportunity for the right candidate to excel.
This role will provide an exciting opportunity to develop your career in the commercially driven digital legal affairs profession.
Here you’ll get to:
Working as part of the Global Digital team (which includes both legal functions and Digital commercial and business development) and alongside the Asia Legal and Business Affairs team, in this role you will play a part in WCM’s digital strategy, drafting digital music licensing deals and related agreements, negotiating legal deal terms, and supporting with contract execution and management. You will gain knowledge of how a music publishing company works, including an understanding of the various ways we exploit and monetize our rights and intellectual property. You will also track past digital deals to monitor their performance against the various deal models and negotiation. Other elements of the role include:
Performing digital legal/business affairs related research.Maintaining, tracking, and monitoring deal contract’s administration status and progress, to ensure the deal execution progress is up-to-date and to support the Digital team to plan and prepare for upcoming significant deal negotiations.Drafting agreements and other documents as part of WCM’s digital deals for multiple territories around the World and overseeing our partners’ compliance with their contractual obligations.Assisting in direct negotiations with global or international Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and supporting with subsequent contract execution.Collaborate with Legal and Business Affair department in managing and responding to inquiries from internal business units and affiliates on matters related to publishing digital deals, policies, or the Digital team.Coordinating internal contract approval process with Regional and Global teams.Assisting with invoicing for digital deals.Managing a fast-moving workload in a thorough, prompt, accurate, presentable, and, where appropriate, confidential manner.Ad-hoc duties and/or project as assigned from time to timeRockstar candidates will be able to:
Law degree with a professional legal qualification in a common law jurisdiction.3-5 years of relevant experience in copyright law and matrix organizational structure, preferably with direct work experience negotiating commercial transactions in-house at a music, media, entertainment or technology company licensing music or other content or at a legal firm. Candidate with less experience will consider at the Legal Affairs Executive level.Working experience in the media, entertainment, and/or creative industry would be advantageous.Good understanding of and experience with digital music/media, content licensing, intellectual property law and performing rights organizations.Experience in business/commercial negotiation and ability to propose the best possible deal proposal.Strong communication and negotiation skills. Ability to communicate at different position levels.A strong work ethic and willingness to support the Digital team with a high volume of business-critical projects.Ability to draft licensing contracts in both English and Chinese languages.The discretion to handle and safeguard confidential information.Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail.Demonstrated experience juggling many projects/deals simultaneously is critical. Excellent written and spoken English and Chinese is a must.A high level of customer service, interpersonal skills, and business acumen.Ability to read and understand materials and documents and to recognize and extract critical data and information. A creative mindset for deal negotiation.Willing to travel as required.It would be music to our ears if you also had:
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