Attorney, Business Development & Legal Affairs

Create Music Group is an LA-based digital music company that provides artists and labels with distribution, rights management, and creative services. We monetize billions of monthly music streams and have collected over millions in previously unclaimed revenue for artists and labels. Clients include Ice Spice, Future, JLo, City Girls, Slander, Marshmello, Don Diablo, Trippie Redd, Migos, and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Draft and negotiate distribution, content monetization, channel partnership, publishing, marketing, music licensing, syndication, contractor and employment, acquisition, and other agreements.
• Oversee the Business Affairs team including but not limited to delegating tasks, review work product, and manage projects
• Manage the material terms in client accounts
• Organize deal terms, client information, and documents
• Request contracting information from artists, managers, and legal teams
• Coordinate final deal points with A&Rs
• Create and review redlines; respond to comments, send and save documentation
• Track projects in various departments, and communicating with various teams across the company and schedule meetings as needed
• Oversee deal negotiations, manage the deal flow and follow up on actionable items as needed
• Execute agreements including sending documents via Formstack
• Create, maintain and update Business Affairs deal templates including forms in the CRM and maintain Business Affairs tools in the CRM
• Review and track termination and takedown requests

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Legal Degree, JD or the equivalent in another jurisdiction
• 2+ years of experience as an attorney or the equivalent in another jurisdiction
• Working knowledge of State Bar Law, Rules of Conduct and procedures as they apply to the performance of major duties and responsibilities of the position
• Previous experience in drafting, negotiating and closing various complex music agreements including without limitation: master and synchronization licensing, recording and publishing agreements, producer agreements, and side artist agreements;
• Knowledge of basic principles, concepts and methodology of legal corporate work
• Knowledge of attorney client relationships applicable to the performance of major duties and responsibilities of the position
• Principles of legal writing
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF (e.g., redlining, redacting, and formatting), and Google business tools
• Previous experience leading and managing a successful team
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced environment

PAY SCALE:

• $100,000 - $140,000/annually