Description:

Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity for an attorney to join the legal department at Skydance based at the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles, with a focus on themed entertainment and live experiences businesses. The position will be an integral member of a team that provides day-to-day business and legal affairs services in support of experiences based on Skydance's intellectual properties and brands worldwide, including in connection with theme parks, hotels, restaurants, live stage productions, immersive attractions and consumer products. The counsel will drive and close a variety of transactions, support a broad array of business and marketing initiatives and provide day-to-day advice to business and creative teams at all levels.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Draft and negotiate intellectual property license agreements, service agreements and other agreements in the global themed entertainment and experiences industry, such as theme parks, hotels, restaurants, live stage productions, concerts, and other immersive attractions and location-based entertainment experiences, as well as consumer products agreements
Provide practical, strategic and actionable advice and counsel to business clients regarding review of projects in development, risk allocation and legal implications of proposed business opportunities and actions
Communicate property rights analyses and handle rights acquisitions and third-party rights owner and talent relations where needed to execute business initiatives, including interaction with Broadway and film producers, third party rights owners and their representatives
Analyze motion picture and television production, financing and distribution agreements, as well as agreements with actors, writers, directors and producers
Review and provide guidance on design, creative and marketing materials
Interact with and maintain channels of communication with key legal and business affairs personnel, and outside counsel, in technical areas including insurance/risk management, compliance, production, marketing, rights and clearances, compliance, trademarks and enforcement, unions and guilds, bankruptcy, privacy, standards & practices, and litigation

Basic Qualifications:

License to practice law in the state of CA (and in good standing); or qualified to promptly register as in-house counsel
4+ years of transferable legal experience (ideally with a major media or entertainment company and/or law company)
Must have experience managing transactional matters and dealing directly with clients
Excellent drafting and negotiating skills, with experience drafting and negotiating entertainment or intellectual property agreements (ideally in the media or entertainment industries)
Outstanding communication (written and oral), interpersonal, and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail
Ability to build strong internal client and colleague relationships at all levels of the business, and successfully advise clients under conditions of uncertainty, high-pressure and/or high-risk and generate strong client satisfaction through quick turnaround, company decision-making and business judgment
Proficiency at multi-tasking under time strain, managing and prioritizing a varied, high-volume workload efficiently and accurately, and operating autonomously within corporate parameters
Exemplary time management skills
Ability to understand numbers in business/financial context
Ability to adapt legal work to a changing media and business landscape

Additional Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be collaborative, positive, and team oriented. A sense of humor is a plus