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Rooster Teeth Studios seeks an exceptional attorney to join its in-house business legal affairs team. This position will primarily support Rooster Teeth Studios original content, development, production, and licensing efforts as well as being responsible for a variety of day-to-day general business needs. This attorney will report directly to Rooster Teeth’s VP, Legal & Business Affairs.

The ideal candidate is someone with a start-up mentality and hustle. The candidate should be eager to helm negotiations and papering of the variety of animation and live action projects Rooster Teeth Studios is developing and producing in the TV and feature space. We are looking for a candidate with substantive transactional experience who thinks strategically. Our top candidate will be comfortable using their experience, good judgment and creativity to establish new precedent and innovate solutions and deal structures amidst a rapidly changing media landscape.

Responsibilities

  • Negotiate and draft all development and production agreements for films and series and other original content productions across all media platforms (e.g., rights acquisition, talent agreements, producer agreements, license agreements, co-finance/co-production agreements, production services agreements, guild and union agreements and other agreements in connection with the development and production of original content).
  • Manage other general business and legal affairs matters typically required of a studio and network.
  • Counsel on a wide variety of transactional matters relevant to Rooster Teeth growing business, including gaming, merchandise, live events, intellectual property, music, employment, and performing other day-to-day business and legal affairs-related tasks as needed.

Qualifications

  • JD from a respected law school.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience (ideally with a minimum of 3 years of business/legal affairs experience in a network, studio, entertainment law firm or production company environment).
  • A strong understanding of technology, video production, online media, gaming, and deal precedents for television production and distribution as well as direct to consumer and new media platforms.
  • Excellent drafting, negotiation, communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, critical thinking, and organizational skills are also a must.
  • Working knowledge of television industry agreements, guild and union regulations (SAG-AFTRA, Animation Guild, Local 839 I.A.T.S.E, WGA, DGA).Knowledge of current market rates for writers and directors in live action and animation.
  • Expertise in negotiating and drafting live action and animation development and production deals.
  • Ability to work proactively, reliably, and cross-functionally, think practically and be solution-oriented.
  • Willingness to tackle matters outside areas of expertise.
  • The business and legal affairs department works as a team in a highly collaborative manner - the ideal candidate will have a cooperative, positive, team-oriented spirit.

About Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth is a fan-driven, community built entertainment company. From humble origins in a spare bedroom, Rooster Teeth created the web series Red vs. Blue, an innovative form of entertainment for a changing media landscape that sparked the growth of a passionate global fandom. From that foundation, Rooster Teeth pioneered a direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand for its growing online following with subscriptions, advertising, e-commerce, and live events. Rooster Teeth produces several original content series including RWBY, the most popular western-style anime series today, The Rooster Teeth Podcast, and daily video series featuring an in-house cast of influential talent. With broadcast and live-action production capabilities and a world class animation studio, Rooster Teeth engages industry-leading networks, streaming entertainment services and creative talent to develop projects that reach global audiences through its Studios division. Rooster Teeth cultivates the gaming lifestyle it helped define with partnerships through its industry-leading video-first podcast network, The Roost. Rooster Teeth has a massive global footprint of more than 45 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 5 million unique weekly viewers across its RoosterTeeth.com hub and more than 4 million registered community members. The company was founded in 2003, and is a subsidiary of Otter Media, a WarnerMedia company. Discover more at RoosterTeeth.com.