Marketing Business Affairs Manager (Content Licensing & IP Clearance) | Contract

Marketing Business Affairs Manager (Content Licensing & IP Clearance) | Contract

 

Job Summary:

The Clearance Specialist role is responsible for securing the rights and clearances of third-party IP in connection with the marketing of Apps and other third-party content and maintaining and preserving industry relationships.

 

Description:

• Act as a core member of the Global Marketing Business Affairs team, partnering with various internal stakeholders across Marketing, Services, Legal, Business, and Product teams to drive successful outcomes.

• Review and clear third-party content for placement in Marketing, maintaining and improving a system for intake of clearance requests, that includes timely, transparent status, efficient processing within strict deadlines, and world-class developer experience.

• Uphold clearance standards that align with global Marcom Business Affairs objectives

• Address complex IP and licensing issues. Employ creative problem-solving, risk mitigation strategies, and relationship management to support creative objectives.

• Build rapport and facilitate connection between multiple stakeholders across the organization, providing strategic options to internal teams, ensuring proper compliance and appropriate usage of third-party IP

• Identify and mitigate risk throughout creative brainstorming, production, and execution phases of marketing projects

• Process digital assets from external partners and track them in an internal asset management system

• Partner with Legal for guidance on trademark and legal issues and to provide business context for contract negotiations

 

Key Qualifications:

• Relevant Experience: 7-10 years relevant experience on a Business Affairs, or content licensing team at a creative agency or other content-focused industry, content production company, or App-focused brand

• Experience with Licensing and Contracts: Ability to draw conclusions from working knowledge of issues and risks that impact the area of rights licensing, including copyright and trademark law, public domain, fair use, rights of publicity

• Knowledge of Industry Standards: Understanding of guidelines and policies and awareness of trends and developments in the app market, including new regulations, emerging technologies and changing user expectations

• Marketing Expertise: Understanding of varied Marketing channels and placements (digital marketing, social media marketing, print marketing, OOH, etc.)

• Skills & Competencies: Demonstrated ability to work across multiple projects with varying ranges of complexity

• Proven ability to exercise sound, strategic, and executable legal & business judgment

• Demonstrated skill in concise and clear written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail

• Calm approach, sound judgment, organized, excels at time management

• Excellent negotiation skills

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree required. JD or MBA desirable.