Director, Music Affairs

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
This is a Versant role.
Job Description
The Role:
Preferably based in Los Angeles, this role is ideal for an experienced music executive, who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is excited to roll up their sleeves, solve novel challenges, and create smart, scalable processes. At its core, the role will oversee music matters across Versant's businesses, including building internal policies and processes, negotiating music clearance and library agreements, creating new ways to exploit owned music, and servicing Versant's business units with their music needs. This role reports to the SVP, IP & Music.

The Responsibilities:
• Establish and implement strategy for clearing, licensing, and exploiting music across the Versant enterprise.
• Draft, negotiate, review, track a wide array of music agreements including work-for-hire agreements, record label and music publishing waivers, sync and master agreements, and long form blanket agreements ranging from production music libraries to composer deals, AV licenses, bill back agreements and similar documents.
• Assess copyright risk and advise content creators on music usage and licensing implications, fair use, ephemeral use, parody, and union issues.
• Clear or oversee clearance of master recordings and musical compositions, licensing and payment for applicable music uses across the Versant enterprise.
• Conduct client and staff trainings in the areas of music, copyright, cue sheets, and general business processes
• Administer and/or oversee the administration of the company-owned music catalogue, including maintaining all databases of musical assets and administering internal or external use of such assets.
• Maintain tracking grids, cost charts, databases, etc. for all music usage, and licensing
• Cue sheet review, analysis, revision, and submission
• Partner with senior business executives, as well as colleagues in the Legal Department, to discuss and implement best practices and formulate new processes in connection with business needs.
Qualifications
The Qualifications:
• A minimum of 8 years of music business and legal experience, preferably in-house.
• Deep knowledge of and relationships within the music industry.
• Tech-savvy, with knowledge of cutting-edge databases, AI, and software that can create efficiency in music workflows.
• Highly motivated and effective self-starter with strong track record of successful project execution.
• Excellent and pragmatic business judgment that considers non-legal factors.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with multiple business units and their key stakeholders.
• Big picture, out-of-the-box thinker, who is excited to experiment with new tech, tools and strategies.
• Ability to see around the corners, and experience evaluating risk with imperfect information and have the confidence to make quick decisions.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively cross-functionally, thing pragmatically and be solution-oriented.
Key Details
• Versant offers a hybrid work model, with a minimum of three days per week in-office. Los Angeles is the preferred location.
• This position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), and access to a range of other employee perks.
• We're moving fast and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• Salary range: $115,000 - $130,000

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-128obe-216-73-216-43-42 in your application.