Coordinator, Business Affairs

Job Description

Who We Are:

The WME Business Affairs Department supports the agents at WME by utilizing the law, contracts and business judgment to help agents make the best deals for their clients. We also manage the contractual relationships between the company's clients and buyers, and advise company executives on effectively balancing business and legal risks.

The Role

We are seeking a coordinator as part of our Business Affairs team supporting the agents in the WME Books department. The ideal candidate has experience with publishing and related agreements in-house at a literary agency, publishing house, media company and/or a top law firm. This is a high-volume practice supporting literary agents within the US and internationally who operate within tight timeframes and whose author clients include bestselling writers and media personalities with a wide range of literary properties. Candidate must be highly organized, extremely detail-oriented and thorough, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once, both independently and as a member of a busy team. This is an ideal position for recent law school graduates and those with an interest in the law.

What You'll Do:
• Advising agents on acceptable deal terms, considering factors such as type of publication, market and precedent
• Negotiating, drafting and reviewing publishing agreements and other licenses for foreign language publication and subsidiary rights
• Managing, tracking and processing permissions requests, including analyzing contracts for status of rights, negotiating clearance fees, and issuing licenses
• Fostering positive long-term relationships with WME clients, agents, sub-agents and buyers

You Have These:
• Outstanding organizational and drafting skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills that will enable interaction with a range of personalities and styles in a fast-paced, time-pressured business environment
• Proactive and accountable; creative analytical thinking and problem-solving skills a must
• Upbeat temperament, dynamic personality and highly team-oriented approach to work and ability to work independently and autonomously
• Strong work ethic
• Experience at a literary agency, publisher, media company or law firm a plus

Working Conditions:

Permanent, 11 Madison

Mon-Fri, 40 hours per week

Endeavor is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world's diverse voices.  

Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the range shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. Endeavor strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Range Minimum:
$58,500 annually

Hiring Range Maximum:
$70,000 annually

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp69e9-3-14-131-115-42 in your application.