The successful candidate will join an experienced Business & Legal Affairs team negotiating high value content agreements with the world’s leading digital platforms. This is an opportunity for a commercially minded lawyer with the desire to take on a challenging in-house role, to work within a relaxed working culture that also demands technical excellence.
This is a full-time, hybrid role, based in London and reporting initially to the General Counsel.
Drafting, negotiating and managing a variety of commercial agreements relating to the digital use of recorded music
Setting commercial parameters and negotiating business terms
Liaising with internal teams (finance, royalty reporting, data analytics and insights, member operations and commercial partnerships) to ensure the implementation of, compliance with and successful operation of licensing agreements
Liaising with external global legal advisors as necessary
Assisting with compliance issues faced by a music rights business operating on a global stage
Assisting with general corporate, commercial and other legal matters
Ideal candidates will have experience of copyright licensing within a digital business and experience of, or a demonstrable interest in, the recorded music industry; and PQE commensurate with the ability to negotiate both the commercial and legal terms of complex licensing agreements with minimal supervision.
We’re a member led, international music-focused organisation providing digital music licensing for independents across the globe. Our members benefit from our premium deals but work directly with key digital partners. Merlin works collaboratively with our digital partners, delivers value back to those digital partners, and seeks to drive other incremental benefits to our members.
We have deals with nearly 40 digital service providers, including Apple, Deezer, Meta, Peloton, Snap, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tencent, TikTok, Twitch, YouTube Music and many other regional and strategic partners.
We are committed to inclusion and diversity; and we will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender assignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.
No Agencies.