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Monks is on the lookout for one (1) Talent & Rights Manager to join the in-house Legal & Business Affairs team, which works closely together with our content production teams.
This role is to strategize and advise on all talent & usage rights matters related to the production of work for an iconic automotive brand, and to help create ground-breaking work, a future vision, and growth for the account. The role will involve managing talent relations and ensuring that all rights related to intellectual properties, including talent agreements, licenses, and usage rights, are effectively negotiated and documented accordingly.
Role & Responsibilities
- In this role you will be part of the Monks US Legal & Business Affairs team and provide production support to all Monks entities in the Americas with a focus on servicing our automotive client based in Detroit.
- Work alongside Business Affairs Managers & Producers to ensure accuracy of all signed talent contracts, 3rd party rights licenses, and completion reports.
- Collaborate with the client, agency partners and dealers to manage talent & rights approval of local, regional, national, and global asset requests.
- Estimate and negotiate residual fees for SAG and Non-Union talent, ensuring favorable terms for the client
- Work closely together with our internal legal team with regards to intellectual property rights, music rights, talent rights, and other clearance matters.
- Reports into the Director of Business Affairs for input in connection with matters relating to your day-to-day responsibilities.
Requirements:
- At least 3-5 years of professional experience within the advertising production industry.
- Demonstrable skills in talent & rights management. Enthusiasm to work in a team, but also independence to work with minimal supervision.
- Fluent in English. Any other language skills are a bonus.
- Strong negotiation and communication skills.
- In-depth knowledge of SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract and the Extreme Reach platform for talent & rights management.
- Flexibility and willingness to take on tasks in new areas of the industry.
- The ideal candidate will be proactive, hands-on, result-oriented, and able to work under pressure of tight deadlines and accuracy. In other words, a self-starter with a strong work ethic.
- Must be available to work during Eastern Time Standard (EST) business hours.
Come Join Our Team
Building your budding Talent & Rights experience, this job will allow you to develop your skill set in an international work environment, filled with many of the nicest people in the industry. You’ll join the brightest creative production company this side of the solar system and be part of a successful and super-fast-moving-(and-growing) organization.
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Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range
$70,000—$85,000 USD
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
What We Do
Monks is the global, purely digital, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
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