Senior Packaging Buyer

Savageone Pty Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned legal professional to lead its Music Legal Team. This role involves managing complex legal matters related to music licensing and advising senior executives on strategic decisions across various territories. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in legal practice, particularly in commercial and intellectual property law, and will thrive in a fast-paced environment. This opportunity offers a chance to tackle cutting-edge legal challenges while working at the intersection of law and technology, making a significant impact on innovative products and services. Join a dynamic team and help shape the future of music-related legal frameworks.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in private practice or in-house legal teams.
• Qualified solicitor with good standing to practice law.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the Music Legal team for licensing matters.
• Review and draft complex music licensing agreements.
• Advise on legal issues and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Legal Expertise

Team Management

Risk Analysis

Communication Skills

Influencing Skills

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in a legal field (LL.B)

Job description

Job Description

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a legal field, LL.B, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in private practice or in-house team in the UK.
• Experience managing in-house legal teams.
• Qualified solicitor, admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience advising senior clients, managing legal team members in advising on complex commercial, product, and policy development challenges and providing related legal advice (including risk analysis).
• Partnering / influencing effectively with cross-functional teams and senior executives.
• Experience in privacy, media, communications, and intellectual property law.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects at once.
• Excellent teamwork, leadership, influencing, and communication skills, and ability to create and foster strong cross-functional networks and manage without authority.
• Passion for taking on cutting-edge legal issues.

About the Job:

The Music Legal Team at YouTube is dedicated to advising Google on a wide variety of complex legal matters that pose risk to our products and businesses.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving and leading commercial, product, regulatory, and strategic decisions related to music and aggregated content licensing, including music-related generative AI and non-music incorporeal rights, in EMEA across all Google products, particularly focused on YouTube. You'll utilize broad and deep expertise covering complex rights across sophisticated rights holders, external and 'under the hood' product operations, and dozens of legal and regulatory landscapes to coordinate high-stakes decision making both internally and externally across products and territories.

You will manage a team across the region, advise VPs and Directors in business, legal, policy, and product, represent Google in senior government meetings, and help guide business and product architecture, product decisions, litigation efforts, and regulatory positions (both active and reactive) across all of EMEA.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities:

• Hire, develop, manage, and serve as an escalation point for the Music Legal team supporting music and aggregated licensing matters across Google and YouTube.
• Manage a team of LTMs at the forefront of a challenging, time-consuming, and complex area, ensuring the team's health and well-being while also meeting timelines.
• Review, draft, and manage complex, specialized music and collective licensing agreements that comply with company policies and risk tolerance.
• Manage executive escalations of legal issues in the music space. Advise colleagues and other cross-functional stakeholders on legal issues and risks, approval processes, company policies/procedures, intellectual property, and strategy.
• Develop the broader expertise in EMEA content regulations, music, and aggregated licensing, and collaborate with other Legal teams to advise on the impact of these laws.
• Work with leadership across Google in the Regulatory Lifecycle process.