Senior Manager, Rights Management

The role

The Senior Manager, Rights Management will lead the content rights administration function across distribution channels. This role establishes standards, controls, and workflows to protect against incorrect rights exploitation and manages a globally distributed team.

What you will do

• Oversee entry of content details from contracts into Rightsline
• Own the content-rights operating model
• Set clear boundaries and handoffs with upstream and downstream teams
• Establish validation rules, exception management and change management
• Set up processes, reports and systematic checks to audit entry of rights
• Collaborate with technology teams to improve Rightsline
• Manage the Rights Management team

Required qualifications

• 8+ years experience leading teams in rights/contract management in media & entertainment
• Experienced leader who can drive forward strategic initiatives and set goals for the team
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to influence cross-functionally
• Ability to drive clarity from ambiguity and turn concepts into operational plans
• Well versed in understanding contract language and translating terms
• Experience with Rightsline and understanding data flows both upstream and downstream and subsequent business impacts

Nice to have

• Experience in streaming industry
• Experience and familiarity of anime content and anime industry

Benefits

• Best-in class medical, dental, and vision private insurance healthcare coverage
• Access to counseling & mental health sessions 24/7 through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Free premium access to Crunchyroll
• Professional Development
• Company's Paid Parental Leave: up to 22 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Hybrid Work Schedule
• Paid Time Off
• Flex Time Off
• 5 Yasumi Days
• Half-Day Fridays during the summer
• Winter Break

About the company

Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a community of over 100 million fans across 200+ countries and territories. It is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan's Aniplex.