Sr. Paralegal

Job Description

Your New Role

This position is a critical member of the rights management team that supports Warner Bros. Discovery's dynamic multi-platform content distribution strategies.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Contract analysis and Rights Management/Tracking:
• Support all rights systems used by the Global Rights Management team, including legacy Warner Media and Discovery RightsLogic rights management systems.
• Research, analyze, capture data, and provide oversight of the company's contractual rights to use acquired and original content on Warner Bros. Discovery's channels, subscription streaming platforms, and other content offerings.
• Maintain data reflecting complex contractual restrictions for studio-acquired content in RightsLogic and in internal, client-facing program planning tools.
• Support entry of rights for content produced or licensed for the MAX subscription streaming services across territories.
• Partner with legal and business affairs teams to ensure proper interpretation of contractual language and risk management.
• Review data in Rights Logic.
• Ensure that other members of the Global Rights Management team have correctly captured data from contracts granting platforms, term dates, and territorial rights as needed.
• Rights Clearance:
• Serve as expert legal resource with deep knowledge of rights and restrictions in studio-acquired series and films and original content.
• Answer rights inquiries from Warner Bros. Discovery network programming and finance teams, studio and network business affairs executives, network distribution clients, and other internal distribution stakeholders.
• Clear monthly VOD schedules for TCM and other Warner Bros. Discovery networks as needed.
• Develop business requirements for future implementations of RightsLogic reflecting complex restrictions in studio acquisition deals.
• Support clearances for new initiatives, including the sale and/or exhibition of legacy Turner content on FAST channels.
• Devise and support ongoing improvements in processes and clearance resources across networks.
• Technical Skills:
• Knowledge and use of multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems (i.e., RightsLogic, SharePoint, FileSite, Smartsheet, and Airtable, Excel).

Qualifications & Experience
• Minimum three-five year's relevant work experience in the media industry or a reputable legal environment. Solid contract management and analysis required.   
• Prior rights analysis and project management experience at a television or entertainment company and/or a legal environment preferred.  
• Some college or equivalent work experience (see minimum experience requirements above).   
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights and/or copyright licensing preferred.
• Ability to interpret/analyze contracts
• Project management skills
• Ability to use multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems. (i.e., Rights Logic, FileSite, Smartsheet, and Airtable, Excel) required.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8bx76-3-15-168-130-42 in your application.