Associate, Physical Production Legal

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Angeles, CA +1 · Legal

Associate/Associate Counsel for Netflix's Physical Production Legal team, supporting the Eyeline business and scripted live-action series. Responsibilities include serving as a point of contact for below-the-line legal matters, structuring, drafting, and negotiating production agreements, communicating solutions, resolving issues efficiently, and exercising sound judgment on complex matters.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as point of contact for below-the-line legal matters arising from Eyeline Studio.
  2. Structure, draft, and negotiate below-the-line production agreements with moderate oversight, ensuring alignment with Netflix and industry standard and deal contexts (e.g., vendor/rental agreements; equipment rental agreements; post-production agreements and visual effects agreements).
  3. Clearly and succinctly communicate solutions to internal production and business partners as well as external producers and production personnel.
  4. Efficiently resolve issues without causing delays, adapting to the fast-paced nature of production legal work.
  5. Exercise sound judgment and curiosity regarding matters of first impression or complex issues.

Skills

Required

  • Undergraduate degree (JD or Paralegal certification accepted, but not required)
  • At least 3 years of proven experience in a similar business/legal affairs role in the film or television industry
  • Ability to work proactively and reliably on multiple projects under tight timeframes in a fast-paced production environment
  • Ability to quickly assess risk and exercise strong judgment in the face of ambiguity
  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities
  • Solutions-driven mindset
  • Ability to organize, clarify, and communicate complex ideas quickly, succinctly and accurately
  • Confidence in counseling business partners and making decisions that have legal & business impacts
  • Ability to remain flexible and respond positively to changes
  • Tech-savvy individual, including proficiency with Google Suite and cloud-based document and database systems

Nice to have

  • JD or Paralegal certification

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 3 years of proven experience in a similar business/legal affairs role in the film or television industry
  • tight timeframes
  • fast-paced production environment
  • quickly assess risk
  • strong judgment in the face of ambiguity