Legal Counsel / Business & Legal Affairs Manager

Are you a lawyer with a passion for music and experience in music licensing, copyright law, contract law, or related fields? If this sounds like you, let's chat!

As a hybrid between media and tech company, we help artists and labels to monetize and distribute their content on UGC platforms such as YouTube and streaming services such as Spotify. With our proprietary and unique technology and our stellar team, we administer 200,000+ copyrighted works and have paid over 10 million USD to rights holders.

In this role, you will be responsible for a wide range of legal matters. You will work closely with our Founder & CEO and our leadership team to ensure all legal matters of the company are taken care of diligently. As a music licensing company, legal affairs is a profit center for us - and is prioritized accordingly.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

• Structuring and drafting a variety of complex deals, including distribution agreements, recording contracts, publishing agreements, and other innovative deals as required by our business needs - including general commercial matters
• Provide expert, strategic legal advice to our management and teams
• Handling legal disputes and claims until resolution, primarily in copyright infringement matters
• Conducting negotiations with opposing counsel, artist management, digital service providers, collective management organizations, and other licensees and licensors, ensuring successful deal closures
• Preparing legal documents such as cease and desist letters, indemnification letters, settlement agreements, etc.

• Extensive practical or academic experience in intellectual property (copyright and related rights) and handling international legal matters
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills
• Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadlines
• A structured, organized, and reliable working style
• Experience working as part of a team, and in an international environment
• Full working proficiency in English

It's a bonus if you have:

• Full working proficiency in other languages, especially German
• Sophisticated understanding of and experience with international music business, for example at a music label, music publishing company, music distributor, or performance rights organization
• Excellent business judgment and strategic thinking skills
• Excellent entrepreneurial and creative thinking skills

Who we're looking for:

• High Energy: You are motivated and don't procrastinate, but are thriving when making real impact. You look for ways to help beyond your formal job responsibilities. We have a lot of work ahead.
• Thrive in Ambiguity: Our product evolves every day. You're ready to improve and build new processes and workflows along the way.
• Passion: You strive to become an expert in your profession, are ambitious, and think outside the box. You're willing to go the extra mile to reach those goals.
• Sense of Urgency: We're moving fast. Decisions are probably made quicker than you're used to. You are ready to match our spee

• Clear Path for Growth: We are growing quickly, and your responsibilities and benefits will grow together with the company.
• Real Impact: Our product is already one of the most relevant revenue streams for our independent artists and creators. Your work will have real impact, from day one.
• Exciting Product: Our value proposition is unique and the reason why >90% of leads decide to work with us.
• Mentoring: We're bootstrapped, profitable, and in this for the long run. You will grow together with us, while learning from and working with the best.
• Freedom & Flexibility: As a remote-first company, we empower our team to work from wherever they want, whenever they want.

If you've read that far, we should definitely get to know each other! Please reach out through our application platform (https://join.com/companies/yourvid).

As a hybrid between media and tech company, we help creators and artists to monetize and distribute their content on UGC platforms and streaming services.

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