Based in Los Angeles or New York, this role is ideal for an experienced music executive, who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is excited to roll up their sleeves, solve novel challenges, lead a team, and have a seat at the table. At its core, the role will oversee music matters across Versant’s businesses, including building internal policies, scaling processes, negotiating music clearance and library agreements, creating new ways to exploit owned music, and servicing Versant’s business units with their music needs. This role reports to the SVP, IP & Music.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and implement strategy for clearing, licensing, and exploiting music across the Versant enterprise.
- Manage and mentor a small team of music professionals, investing in their development and building a culture that values learning, accountability, and shared success.
- Draft, negotiate, review, track a wide array of music agreements including work-for-hire agreements, record label and music publishing waivers, sync and master agreements, and long form blanket agreements ranging from production music libraries to composer deals, AV licenses, and similar documents.
- Assess copyright risk and advise content creators on music usage and licensing implications, fair use, ephemeral use, parody, and union issues.
- Create processes that scale for the tracking and payment for applicable music uses across the Versant enterprise, including cue sheet automation.
- Conduct client and staff trainings in the areas of music, copyright, cue sheets, and general business processes
- Administer and/or oversee the administration of the company-owned music catalogue, including maintaining all databases of musical assets and administering internal or external use of such assets.
- Use data-infused strategies to grow Versant’s music revenue while driving down its costs.
- Partner with senior business executives, as well as colleagues in the Legal Department, to discuss and implement best practices and formulate new processes in connection with business needs.