Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, Nonfiction and Sports

2 Months ago • 6 Years + • Legal • $200,000 PA - $380,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Netflix seeks an experienced business and legal affairs executive with extensive sports expertise to handle various responsibilities in acquiring, developing, and producing nonfiction content, including live and recorded sports events. The role involves overseeing legal affairs of in-house and third-party productions, drafting and negotiating agreements, managing production-legal and clearance issues, and providing legal counsel. Experience in production services agreements, above-the-line and below-the-line agreements, license agreements, and dealing with productions, producers, and talent representatives is essential. The position requires strong legal knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • 6+ years experience in sports and events legal affairs
  • Experience drafting and negotiating agreements
  • Production legal and clearance expertise
  • JD and state bar membership
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Mental health support
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Stock option program
  • Disability programs
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Paid time off

Job Details

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Netflix seeks an experienced business and legal affairs executive, with extensive sports expertise, to handle a wide array of responsibilities related to the acquisition, development, and production of Netflix’s Nonfiction slate, including live and recorded sports and events (e.g. WWE, Paul vs. Tyson, NFL Christmas Day Games, just to name a few). The successful candidate will be an integral part of the Nonfiction BLA  team and will primarily oversee legal affairs facets of in-house and third-party productions, with the potential to handle some business affairs elements in the future.  

REQUIREMENTS 

The successful candidate should have at least six (6) years of business and legal affairs experience in the development, production and licensing of live and recorded sports and events, with direct experience drafting deal terms and all forms of agreements, including production services agreements, above-the-line and below-the-line agreements, license agreements and production forms. They should be extremely comfortable dealing directly with productions, producers and talent representatives, as well as communicating across myriad departments within the company.  

 

They need to be ready, willing, and able to completely own all legal affairs facets of live and recorded productions, sports and events including: drafting and negotiating various agreements, overseeing production-legal and clearance issues and providing general legal affairs and production counsel support for the Nonfiction team’s projects. Experience providing in-house support, or as outside production counsel, for a network, streaming service, sports league/organization, or a production company that specializes in live sports and events is preferred. The successful candidate should have knowledge of substantive areas of the law and customary business practices relevant to Nonfiction productions, sports and events.

A successful candidate will also possess the following: 

  • J.D. (or international equivalent) and membership in good standing in at least one state bar is required.

  • Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Strong analytical capabilities and judgment.

  • Ability to work proactively, independently, and reliably under tight timeframes in a fast-paced environment.

  • Ability to work effectively and collaboratively, think practically and be solution-oriented.

  • Willingness to tackle matters outside of expertise.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $200,000 - $380,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more.

is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

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