What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensing Coordinator position at SG Services, Inc.?
Title: Licensing Coordinator
Status: Full-time
Hours: 40/week, Monday - Friday, 9am-6pm
Location: Brooklyn, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Bloomington, IN or Chicago, IL
Reports to: Senior Sync Licensing Director
Company Summary: Secretly is a collective of leading independently-owned music companies comprised of three label groups, a music publishing company, a music distribution company, and affiliated support staff. Its major divisions include Secretly Group (record labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Saddest Factory Records and Secretly Canadian, and music publisher Secretly Publishing), All Flowers Group (record labels drink sum wtr and Ghostly International), and The Numero Group. The Secretly affiliates each maintain a distinct artist roster but share a common ethos and staff who bring together an abundance of expertise, resources, insight and scalability while upholding the creative sanctity of these storied independent labels and their catalogues.
Position Summary: Secretly is seeking a Licensing Coordinator who will support the sync clearance and publishing administration team. We are in search of a highly organized, detail-oriented candidate with an interest in copyright and synch licensing, who is eager to learn the art of negotiation and gain experience in contract drafting. This position fields incoming lower level sync requests for recordings and musical compositions across the wide-ranging Secretly catalog, and handles the mechanical licensing workflow for Secretly Publishing. This is a unique opportunity for a candidate to build music licensing skills at a multi-disciplinary company, with growth potential to eventually learn more advanced clearance and licensing tasks. We are seeking someone with great interpersonal skills who is a self-starter and can work in a collaborative and fast paced environment. This individual will report to the Senior Sync Licensing Director and will work closely with a top-notch sync pitching and licensing clearance team.
Responsibilities:
- Negotiate license terms, coordinate clearances with approval parties and issue licenses for sync requests, including film festivals, student films, podcasts, action sports films and new media/micro sync.
- Field incoming “walk in” sync license requests and gather relevant request details from licensee.
- Monitor & resolve sync infringements on social media platforms.
- Assist Senior Sync Licensing Director with tracking confirmations of licenses, database management, updating clearance department rolodex.
- Submit advertising cue sheets to Performing Rights Organizations.
- Update Secretly Publishing website with sync placement highlights on a regular basis.
- Use established boilerplate agreements to draft mechanical licenses and work with third party labels to see licensing through to completion; manage a database of current mechanical licenses.
- Perform filing & clerical tasks, and other special projects as assigned.
The Ideal Candidate Demonstrates:
- The ability to gather facts, synthesize information and organically communicate requests clearly and accurately to stakeholders, with a keen eye for detail and superior organization skills.
- Eagerness to learn and an aptitude for negotiation and deal making, with the ability to follow projects through to completion.
- A basic understanding of copyright, ideally with 1-2 years in sync clearance and/or some experience with mechanical royalties.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and a knack for fostering relationships externally with clients.
- Passion for Secretly's diverse roster and the capability to have a high level of knowledge of the company’s creative assets.
- Knowledge of burgeoning new media and the ability to identify ways to leverage new platforms into music licensing opportunities is a plus.
SG Services, Inc. Benefits
- Paid holidays including end of the year closure
- Paid Time Off policy, which includes a separate Sick Days bank
- 401K with corporate matching
- 12 weeks for parental leave after birth or adoption paid at 100% of salary
- Commuter Benefit
- Volunteer Hours Matching Policy
- Employee Assistance Program
- Medical Health insurance covered at 100% for employee-only medical premiums
- Dental & Vision insurance
Bloomington, IN Salary: $42,500
New York, NY Salary: $55,250
Chicago, IL Salary: $46,750
Los Angeles, CA Salary: $51,000
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, nationality, or national origin.
Salary : $42,500 - $55,250
