Business Affairs

Manage a team of contract administrators who cover the Amazon MGM Television slate. Create and implement processes and process improvements for tracking and payment. High volume deal tracking (rights, actors, first look and overall and other options), including various report and grid maintenance.

General clerical and administrative duties include answering phones, meeting and schedule coordination, preparing expense reports, producing correspondence, and travel coordination.

Oversee series throughout all stages from script development through post-production and exhibition on Netflix’s global streaming service from a legal and, eventually, a business standpoint, with the ability to navigate through complex matters that arise during the production lifecycle.

Create and maintain status reports and draft high volume of correspondence. Maintain department legal files and assist in the day-to-day operations of the department. Enter deal negotiation requests into the database and assign to the applicable executive. Initiate payments with accounting for our development projects.

General clerical and administrative duties include answering phones, meeting and schedule coordination, preparing expense reports, producing correspondence, and travel coordination.

Structure and negotiate complex agreements for all forms of “above-the-line” talent, including directors, writers, actors, and voice talent, as well as rights deals including novels, films and comic books. Work closely with executives and producers to put deals into place.

Efficiently support an executive responsible for negotiating deals for writing, directing, acting and producing clients in scripted and non-scripted Television.

Curate meeting preparations materials – compile grids, and curate relevant information across multiple projects. Manages and directs phone calls and written correspondence and facilitates the execution of documents.

Handle other day-to-day tasks like email distributions, updating contact information, managing expense reports, note-taking, filing, ordering of supplies, etc. Read and digest important content-related documents and discern, summarize, and/or annotate critical data/information.

Negotiate all aspects of film agreements with talent agents and lawyers (including profit participation, rights agreements, co-production, and overall/first look deals) in direct liaison with the relevant stakeholders within the studio.

Editing, proofreading, summarizing agreements and correspondence under the supervision of the executive. Serve as first point of contact with clients, agents and executives. Track all deals, negotiations, and assignments.

Conduct heavy research, track contract drafts and negotiations until contracts are ready for closing, track and keep BA informed of important negotiating related calendar dates.

Initiate wire transfers based on wire request forms provided by legal, with all outgoing transactions requiring dual-party authorization. Create a ledger for each loan, tracking principal, origination fees, and premiums.

General clerical and administrative duties include answering phones, meeting and schedule coordination, preparing expense reports, producing correspondence, and travel coordination.

Efficiently support an executive responsible for negotiating deals for writing, directing, acting and producing clients in scripted and non-scripted television.

Structure and negotiate a wide variety of domestic and international film-related agreements including development, production, financing and distribution deals, talent agreements, releases, licenses, partnership deals, services agreements, consulting agreements, and option agreements.

Executive who knows the in’s and out’s of Feature Film, TV, IP, deal making, etc.

Efficiently support an executive responsible for negotiating deals for writing, directing, acting and producing clients in scripted and unscripted television.

Coordinate signatures on contracts. Save and file contracts and key correspondences. Coordinate the calendar for head of the department.

Negotiation of rights, writing, producing, directing, acting and other development- and production-related deals for feature films.

Effectively coordinate meetings, facilitate communication between various departments, and provide comprehensive administrative support.

Advise business partners with respect to legal rights and contractual responsibilities, guild agreements, intellectual property matters, claims and other matters arising out of the day-to-day production of film and television productions.

Handle all administrative responsibilities for the executive including expense reporting, scheduling all meetings, coordinating conference calls, and greeting all visiting guests.

Provide administrative support to three Vice Presidents, including but not limited to: Answer phones; manage calendars, meetings, and conference calls; book/confirm travel; and manage expense reports.

Provide strategic support on programming from greenlight through renewal, both on an individual title and across the entire Scripted Series slate.

Efficiently support an executive responsible for negotiating deals for writing, directing, acting and producing clients in scripted and non-scripted Television.

Answers phones, schedules appointments, confirms meetings, maintains daily schedules, photocopies material, facsimile and e-mail distributions, routes incoming and outgoing mail that may include large distribution lists.

General administrative duties include but not limited to updating databases, creating, and maintaining organizational distribution lists, managing subscriptions, processing mail, copying, filing, etc. Process Development Payments for Options and Shows.

Structure, draft and negotiate a high volume of above-the-line TV development and production deals, including deals for showrunning EPs, non-writing EPs, rights acquisitions, pilot directors, on-screen talent, etc.

Provide administrative support to executives including heavy calendar management. Screen and respond to calls and email correspondence.