Integration Rights Analyst (6-Month Contract)

Blue Ant Media; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Recruitment accommodation available

Job summary

Blue Ant Media in Toronto is seeking an Integration Rights Analyst for a 6-month contract hybrid role. You will support onboarding and management of content assets, rights data, and metadata to ensure accuracy and alignment with distribution requirements.

You will work with Sales, Acquisitions, Legal, and Finance to analyze licenses, track expiries, and generate rights reports. The role emphasizes data integrity, cross-functional collaboration, and improvements to Rightsline systems.

Qualifications

• Ability to parse complex legal documents (Distribution Agreements, License Agreements) to identify chain of title and delivery obligations.
• Experience using rights management systems to manage complex windows and territories.
• Strong data validation and reconciliation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support global sales teams by providing accurate rights availability, restrictions, and windowing information.
• Review deal terms and confirm rights alignment across territories, platforms, and languages.
• Maintain and manage rights data across internal systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Track rights usage, expiries, holdbacks, and exclusivity across all licensed content.
• Analyze license agreements and term sheets to validate rights, obligations, and deliverables.
• Flag risks, conflicts, or discrepancies in rights allocations and elevate as needed.
• Collaborate with Legal and Acquisitions to clarify contract terms and resolve issues.
• Generate rights reports for sales, finance, and management teams.
• Support audits and provide insights on rights availability and performance.
• Ensure data integrity across rights management systems and tools.
• Work closely with Sales, Acquisitions, Finance, and Operations to align on rights strategy.
• Act as a key point of contact for rights-related inquiries across departments.
• Support enhancements to rights management systems (Rightsline).
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and data tracking.
• Assist in system migrations and data validation projects.

Skills

Document analysis

Data visualization

Excel advanced

Data migration

Rights management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Process improvement

M&A data flow understanding

Tools

Rightsline

FilmTrack

MediaRights

Job description

TELLING CAPTIVATING STORIES TO AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE

Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI) is an international streamer, production studio, advertising sales and rights-management business. The company operates a diverse portfolio of free streaming and pay TV channels internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, and Love Pets, as well as the subscription streaming service MagellanTV. Its studio business produces and distributes a wide range of premium content across key genres for streaming and broadcast platforms worldwide. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with a presence in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore, London, Washington, Sydney, Halifax, and Ottawa. blueantmedia.com Instagram LinkedIn

Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.

Integration Rights Analyst (6-Month Contract)

The Integration Asset Coordinator supports the onboarding and management of content assets, rights data, and metadata, ensuring information is accurate, accessible, and aligned with business and distribution requirements.

This new role will report to the Senior Director, International Distribution and Business Operations and is a hybrid position requiring in-office attendance at our head office in Toronto for a minimum of three (3) days per week.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $50,000 - $60,000 per year, with final compensation determined by experience and qualifications.

Core Responsibilities and Duties

• Support global sales teams by providing accurate rights availability, restrictions, and windowing information.


• Review deal terms and confirm rights alignment across territories, platforms, and languages.

Rights Management

• Maintain and manage rights data across internal systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency.


• Track rights usage, expiries, holdbacks, and exclusivity across all licensed content.


• Interpret complex contracts to extract and input key rights information.

Contract Analysis

• Analyze license agreements and term sheets to validate rights, obligations, and deliverables.


• Flag risks, conflicts, or discrepancies in rights allocations and elevate as needed.


• Collaborate with Legal and Acquisitions to clarify contract terms and resolve issues.

Data & Reporting

• Generate rights reports for sales, finance, and management teams.


• Support audits and provide insights on rights availability and performance.


• Ensure data integrity across rights management systems and tools.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales, Acquisitions, Finance, and Operations to align on rights strategy.


• Act as a key point of contact for rights-related inquiries across departments.

Systems & Process Improvement

• Support enhancements to rights management systems (Rightsline).


• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and data tracking.


• Assist in system migrations and data validation projects.

Qualifications and Experience

• The ability to parse complex legal documents (Distribution Agreements, License Agreements) to identify "chain of title" and delivery obligations.


• Power-user proficiency in Rightsline (or similar platforms like FilmTrack, MediaRights) to manage complex windows and territories.


• Experience in data migration and mapping.


• High-level Excel skills for data validation, auditing, and ensuring consistency.


• The ability to visualize how data flows between Legal, Finance, and Media Services/Global Deliveries during a company merger or acquisition.


• Meticulous attention to detail required to resolve "legacy ambiguities" and clean up historical data gaps.


• Aligning asset ingestion workflows with corporate strategy, ensuring high-value content is integrated and "sales-ready" first.


• Identify bottlenecks in how rights and assets are linked and propose structural improvements to the data pipeline.

At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world. We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce. In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.

While we may use digital tools to support the efficiency of our recruitment process, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select candidates. Applications are personally reviewed by a member of the Talent Acquisition team or one of the hiring leaders, ensuring a fair and human-centered experience for all applicants.

If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at [e-mail].