Sr. Analyst, Global Rights Management

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Your New Role

Warner Bros. Discovery Legal is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Global Rights Management Department, to review and analyze complex rights agreements for both acquisitions and original programming, to update rights systems, to perform quality control of rights data, to liaise with attorneys, programming, sales, and operations teams, and participate in various special projects.

Your Role Accountabilities

Contract Analysis And Rights Management

• Maintain rights data in RightsLogic and other rights systems used by the Global Rights Management Team, including legacy Warner Media and Discovery. This includes entering, updating, and managing complex data, program rights and program information ensuring that content rights are kept up to date according to contracts and legal documents.
• 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.
• Work closely with the contracts flow and intercompany stakeholders (Acquisitions, Programming, Legal) with regards to rights
• Partner with legal and business affairs teams to ensure proper interpretation of contractual language and risk management.
• Seek, recommend, and implement opportunities for improvement in workflows and processes. This may involve collaborating with other Global Rights Management team members or end users to streamline activities for the benefit of the operation.
  

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 Warner Bros. Discovery networks/services as needed.
• Support clearances for new initiatives, including the sale and/or exhibition of legacy Turner content on FAST channels.
  

Process Improvement

• Devise and support ongoing improvements in processes and clearance resources across networks.
• Knowledge and use of multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems (i.e.,SharePoint, FileSite, Smartsheet, and Airtable, Excel).
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of three to five years of 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.  
• College degree (BA/Associates) and/or equivalent professional certification.
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights and/or copyright licensing preferred.
• Ability to interpret/analyze complex rights.
• Project management skills
• Must be an excellent communicator, both orally and written
• Able to self-audit, be resourceful to find answers and make educated decisions, and be able to operate in a continually changing business environment.
• Preferred experience working with a rights management system and complex rights data.
• Ability to use multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems. (i.e., Rights Logic, FileSite) and information management tools (Smartsheet, Airtable, Excel, etc.) required.
• Good knowledge of TV/SVOD and streaming rights
  
  

How We Get Things Done…

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Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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