Lead, Licensing

Job summary

Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Lead, Licensing & Rights EU manages the local activities & teams to build deal terms and excecute negotiations for our agreements with global and local original creators, authors, narrators, production partners & celebrities across Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This position will be responsible for all Audible GmbH’s economic terms with Europe’s content creators and business development partners from the non-book world. The relationships will be developed in liaison with our Global, European & International Content Acquisition teams, to provide the leading spoken word catalogue for all our European audiences.

As a Lead, Licensing & Rights EU, you will...
- Development of the quality and efficiency of all our European deal terms, negotiations, and agreements to support our direct relations to content creators for German, French, Italian & Spanish spoken word content.
- Manage the deal architecture, deal terms and day-to-day deal requirements for Audible’s owned and original content.
- Partner with the global cross functional teams to develop deal strategy, formulate key terms including all related analysis, strategizing and planning for a variety of complex agreements ranging from production to marketing commitments, and negotiations with local or global creators and celebrities.

Basic Qualifications
- Professional Degree (JD, MBA, M.A., M.S., or other post-graduate degree) in relevant field.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in international intellectual property rights licensing businesses (preferable from the wider media, television, film or computer game industry) to create cutting edge agreements where there is no precedent.
- A strong background conducting complex, high profile negotiations that rely on economic understanding and human interaction to achieve the goals of the company.

Preferred Qualifications
- An ability to inspire trust and followership in external partners, and internal team members and peers through passion, charisma, bias for action and intuitive drive towards an inclusive and emotional intelligent working environment.
- Experience in professional relationship building with creative organizations (e.g. Writers Guild, Actors Guild or equivalent etc.).
- Ability to operate in a high-energy, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment.
- Ability to communicate clearly, pragmatically and persuasively, also under aggressive timelines, complexity and ambiguity of a global rights landscape and fast moving business environment.
- Strong communication skillset (verbal and written English); with the ability to effectively communicate visions, ideas, articulate the possible in a simple manner across different levels of an organization internally and externally, up to the support of the creation of C-Level presentations.
- Willingness to travel internationally for business.
- Proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English.

ABOUT AUDIBLE

At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). Some teams will work mostly at hub, some mostly at home and others hybrid. For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.

Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnic origin, gender, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual identity, or any other legally protected status. We therefore ask you to exclude unnecessary information, such as a photo, date or place of birth, gender identification, family and marital status, nationality, religion etc. from your CV or resume. Thank you for doing your part to create equal opportunities for everyone.