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Legal & Business Affairs Manager at Warner Music… · Mexico…
Job Description
At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Legal & Business Affairs Manager
Your Role:
To ensure the company complies with all applicable laws and regulations while anticipating and mitigating legal risks. You will guide and supervise the legal team in all legal acts and documentation executed by the company (Mexico, Colombia) to prevent legal contingencies.
Here you’ll get to:
Leadership: Guide, advise, and supervise the activities of the legal team.
Contract Management: Draft and review various types of contracts and amendments (artistic, production, licensing, distribution, works-for-hire, advertising campaigns, synchronization licenses, broadcast authorizations/NCBs, participation waivers, service agreements, concerts, and new business) to protect group interests and avoid legal risks.
Business Advisory: Provide legal counsel to group companies and support strategic business decision-making.
Regulatory Compliance: Supervise the accurate preparation of documents in response to requirements from government authorities.
Corporate Governance: Request, review, and coordinate the formalization of meeting minutes, unanimous resolutions, delegation of powers (Power of Attorney), and the apostille process for group contracts.
Promotions & Terms: Supervise and review Terms and Conditions drafted by the team for promotions and marketing dynamics across different departments.
Policy Localization: Review group policies and adjust them according to local legislation (privacy, cookies, terms of use, etc.).
Contract Lifecycle: Work with the team to follow up with various departments, ensuring all legal documents are properly documented, executed, and signed.
Immigration & Visas: Oversee the preparation of artist entry letters and support documentation for visa applications.
Financial Oversight: Supervise the payment process for royalty advances, external counsel, and notary fees. Draft instruction letters for royalty payments, advances, and recording budgets coordinated by the team.
Budget Management: Manage, prepare, and negotiate budgets for external law firms and notary services.
About You:
Solid Experience: 5+ years of proven track record in Business Affairs or Legal roles, preferably within the entertainment, music, or media industries.
Contract & Negotiation Expertise: Deep proficiency in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts (artistic, production, sync, distribution, work-for-hire, advertising, and services).
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to guide, supervise, and enhance team performance.
Strategic Vision & Risk Mitigation: Ability to provide proactive legal advice that supports business goals, anticipates contingencies, and adapts global policies to local laws.
Process-Oriented: Rigorous approach to the contract lifecycle, ensuring proper documentation, signing, and safeguarding of all group legal acts.
Languages: Advanced proficiency in both Spanish and English.
As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.