Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs - CEE
Netflix
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
Following the opening of our office in Warsaw, and with highly successful Polish shows such as “1670”, “Znachor” and “Love Never Lies” Netflix continues to establish its presence in Central and Eastern Europe and seeks an experienced lawyer to join Netflix’s growing content slate in the region. This role is a unique opportunity to impact Netflix’s expanding business in the region.
Based in Warsaw, the role is on the Business & Legal Affairs team and will be focused on supporting the slate of films and series acquired in the region as well as supporting Netflix commissioned original scripted series, non-fiction series, and films.
The candidate will work alongside content executives on license agreements with local producers and distributors across the region, and on all types of commissioning agreements (e.g., development and production services agreements). In doing so, the candidate must have a good understanding of the legal and business landscape as well as the industry as a whole. It is also important that the candidate is successfully able to operate within Netflix’s strategy as both a very local platform in the market, as well as a global streaming platform.
The candidate will be involved in negotiating production deals for programming either with local production and distribution partners or directly with talent and representatives, as well as overseeing business and legal affairs matters during production (review of chain of title, providing support to partners in negotiating talents agreements, etc.). The ideal candidate will have direct experience with deal-making and legal issues in the CEE film & TV marketplace across the genres. A direct experience in licensing and distribution is required. The role requires a good knowledge of the legal intricacies in the local media sector, the ability to think out of the box, exercising good judgment, the ability to collaborate strongly within a cross-functional team, and the flexibility to quickly pivot within a strategy.
REQUIREMENTS
The successful candidate will be admitted to practice law in Poland or in CEE and will have 3+ years of entertainment experience in the region with both the legal and business aspects of licensing and distribution, and ideally production. Fluency in Polish and English is an essential requirement for this role - and other CEE languages are a big plus.
In addition, the ideal candidate will possess the following:
Strong communication skills (candor, honesty)
Strong sense of the business and ability to negotiate business terms
Strong analytical (strategic and creative) capabilities and judgment
Curiosity and willingness to tackle matters outside their area of expertise
Ability to work proactively, independently and reliably under tight time frames in a fast‐paced environment
Ability to work in a small group, tackle all challenges and take initiative
Ability to work effectively and collaboratively cross‐functionally, think pragmatically and be solution‐oriented
Ability to collaborate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds
Adaptable negotiation style
Openness to the culture of feedback
Passion for Netflix’s international and local strategy
Comfortable traveling within Europe
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