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Business Affairs Executive, Amazon MGM Studios Business Affairs
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Role Overview
This role will support the negotiations for writers, producers, cast, production companies, and other related deals and will work closely with Studio legal affairs to assist in finalizing agreements and dealing with production issues as they arise. In this role, the successful candidate will leverage their negotiation ability while interacting with agents, managers, and outside attorneys and be able to efficiently communicate status and tradeoffs with other members of the Amazon MGM Studios team, including Creative, Production, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, and Legal, as well as executives outside of Amazon MGM Studios.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Applying working knowledge of film and television industry agreements, guild regulations, contract law, and intellectual property rights (as applicable to the entertainment industry) to support drafting, negotiating, communicating (written and verbal) with our external partners.
- In close collaboration with senior executives, negotiating deal terms for production companies, IP, and above-the-line talent to achieve business objectives and support wider Amazon goals.
- Communicating across teams, including Creative, Production, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and external stakeholders.
- Managing high-volume workloads across a global organization and multiple time zones efficiently.
- Advising executives and building strong relationships through clear risk analysis and cross-departmental collaboration.
A Day in the Life
The candidate will negotiate and/or manage negotiations of commercial deal terms with and for production companies, producers, IP rights, format rights, ATL incl. writers, directors, on-screen talent, and other related deals.
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The candidate will interact with managers, agents, managing directors, and outside attorneys and will efficiently communicate status and tradeoffs with other members of the Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video team, including Creative, Production, Marketing, Finance, Tax, Accounting, Legal, and Distribution, as well as executives outside of Amazon.
The candidate will apply a comprehensive working knowledge of film and TV industry business models, development, and production methodologies.
The candidate will, in close collaboration with senior executives, support a varied, high-volume workload efficiently and smoothly, operate within corporate parameters, and remain cool and level-headed in high-pressure situations. The candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues in this department and across Amazon, build strong internal client relationships, effectively advise senior-level executives under time-sensitive conditions, and generate client satisfaction through clear thinking and risk analysis.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in entertainment industry deal negotiation
- Experience in a studio, production company, or television network
- Experience with complex commercial/legal concepts and drafting, ability to quickly read and interpret legal terminology and reasoning
- Experience in negotiating complex agreements with an understanding of legal terminology and reasoning
- UK qualified solicitor with a minimum of 1 year PQE.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working for a content distributor, digital content service, or legal firm (legal training/PQE desirable)
- Experience structuring and negotiating terms for commercial content deals, e.g., production commissions, existing content licenses, talent, multi-title/output
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