Director, Business & Legal Affairs, Publishing

Overview

Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing, theatrical performance rights and narrative content.

Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne and Miami, Concord also has staff in Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. The Company’s catalog consists of more than 1 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings which are licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.

Concord Music Publishing is a global independent music publisher with works spanning nearly two centuries. Concord represents many of the world's most celebrated songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Concord Music Publishing owns or administers more than 800,000 copyrighted musical works. Spanning nearly two centuries of song, through a vast array of genres and territories, Concord represents the world’s most celebrated songwriters, composers, and lyricists.

Concord Music Publishing has many partners and is home to the world's leading classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes. It also operates exclusive joint ventures with Pulse Music Group and Hang Your Hat as well as various sub-publishers around the world.

As the Director, Business & Legal Affairs, Publishing, you'll be responsible to meaningfully contribute to the operation of Concord Publishing’s Business Affairs Department, with moderate supervision by a more senior member of Publishing Business Affairs team.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

• Negotiation, drafting, concluding and management of various music publishing contracts, including songwriter deals, administration agreements, third party commissions, acquisitions, subpublishing and various ancillary matters;
• Provide legal research and general legal advice to various internal departments with respect to general publishing matters including rights and clearances, as needed. 
• Analyze, interpret, simplify and solve problems regarding legacy contractual agreements;
• Assist enforcement of Concord copyrights including infringement prosecution;
• Coordination with relevant Concord departments related to above matters;
• Summarizing, tracking and management of same via various tech platforms and applications;
• Conducting due diligence re acquisitions and associated negotiating/drafting;
• Assist with general corporate compliance and general corporate matters.  
• Research and drafting in connection with offensive and defensive litigation matters;
• Contribute to Concord’s efficiency and organization through best practices

Qualifications

What you’ll need:

• Licensed to practice in Tennessee;
• 2 years’ experience with music publishing business and legal affairs matters.
• Motivated, enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in a friendly but fast-paced team environment.
• Excellent communications and organizational skills essential. Candidate must be able to prioritize, problem solve, and efficiently handle a high volume of work in an efficient manner, managing and meeting deadlines.
• Profeciency with or willingness and skills to rapidly adopt various technology products used by Concord, including Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, Jira, CLM/Salesforce, etc.

*This job is hybrid- requiring 3 days a week minimum on site. 

At Concord, we offer comprehensive medical and wellness benefits, generous time off, parental leave, charity match, paid time off for volunteering, and other fun company perks. We have beautiful new offices and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.