Global Senior Counsel

Title:  Global Senior Counsel

Location: London or Paris

Reporting To: Global Head of Legal & Business Affairs

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious and experienced can-do lawyer to join Animaj’s Global Legal & Business Affairs team in London.

• This is a rare opportunity to work in an international media and tech high growth scale -up who value lawyers as business partners.

• Working closely with our Global Head of Legal & Business Affairs, you will be entrusted to work autonomously and as a team player.

• You will be a self-starter with a growth-positive mindset who enjoys new challenges, is proactive by nature, and communicates succinctly. You will grow quickly as a business-first lawyer and develop expertise in AI, automation and legal tech.

Responsibilities

You will be someone who enjoys rolling up your sleeves and finding a route through any task-list, which may look like this:

• Structure, draft, and negotiate production-critical agreements, including:

  • Development, co-production and financing agreements

  • Adaptations, remakes, sequels, spin-offs and derivative works

  • Talent agreements (writers, directors, contributors etc.)

  • Music production, publishing and recording agreements

• Ensure clean chain-of-title and exploitability:

  • Cross-border productions (France, Spain, UK, EU, US)

  • US guilds/societies and work-for hire agreements

  • European authors’ rights (droit d’auteur) agreements

  • Moral rights (paternity, integrity), waivers and consents

• Act as a trusted legal partner to Production, Creative, Music, Distribution, Consumer Products, Brand and Marketing teams, translating legal constraints into executable business solutions

• Contribute to Animaj Legal Department processes including updating or introducing new policies, guidelines, toolkits, flowcharts, training sessions and playbooks to support Animaj scale.

• Provide practical advice by staying up-to-date with relevant industry, commercial and legal developments; develop specialist knowledge in AI and its application worldwide; and attend industry or legal seminars where needed.

• Operate as a team player while working independently and autonomously.