As Corporate Counsel for the French Studios team, you will handles all legal aspects of development, production and marketing of original TV content in support of Amazon’s rapidly expanding scripted and unscripted television initiatives in Europe, including helping to develop forms and policies, structuring, drafting and negotiating a wide range of agreements such as rights option and acquisition agreements, writer agreements, production services agreements, above-the-line talent agreements, documentary and reality participant and access agreements, below-the-line crew agreements and other production related agreements. You will be responsible for all legal matters during the lifecycle of our programs including evaluating rights issues, confirming chain of title and handling clearance matters, standards and practices review, and promotion and publicity issues. Some travel, domestic and international might be required.
About the team
Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon’s Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights. Amazon Studios has an opening for Corporate Counsel to support scripted and unscripted projects to be produced in France. Over the past few years, we have debuted award-winning and ground-breaking programming like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Jack Ryan, The Boys, Le Bal des Folles, Orel San: Don’t Ever Show This To Anyone; LOL and forthcoming drama series like Totems, The Rig and many more.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Clichy, FRA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 5+ years of attorney experience in development, production, and marketing, including drafting and negotiating contracts
• Should have worked with a studio, production company, or an entertainment and media law firm, and must have extensive experience and strong skills in drafting and negotiating contracts.
• Excellent ability to analyse and assess business processes, spot issues and propose/implement solutions.
• Ability to function autonomously yet communicate laterally and upwardly with ease.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Strong legal and business judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues and projects with diverse levels of management and employees.
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