Assistant, TV Business & Legal Affairs

Position Title: Assistant, Television Business & Legal Affairs

Location: Burbank, CA

Reporting To: Two Executives

Legendary Entertainment is a leading media company with film (Legendary Pictures), television and digital (Legendary Television and Digital Media) and comics (Legendary Comics) divisions dedicated to owning, producing, and delivering content to worldwide audiences. Legendary has built a library of marquee media properties and has established itself as a trusted brand which consistently delivers high-quality, commercial entertainment including some of the world's most popular intellectual property. In aggregate, Legendary Pictures-associated productions have realized grosses of more than $20 billion worldwide at the box office. To learn more visit: .

Summary

Legendary is seeking an Assistant to join the TV Business & Legal Affairs team. This role will directly support the SVP and VP, serving as one of two department assistants, providing general support to the TV Business & Legal Affairs team. Responsibilities include handling day-to-day business and legal affairs administrative tasks, contract administration and production legal-related duties. The Assistant will interface regularly with internal stakeholders across corporate, creative, production, marketing/publicity, safety/risk, and finance, as well as external partners including talent representatives, vendors, production personnel, and guilds/unions. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and exercises strong judgment, with the ability to communicate effectively and operate efficiently in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. A high degree of professionalism, confidentiality, and discretion is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide general administrative support for executives, including keeping executives organized, answering calls, scheduling, note-taking, sending correspondence, arranging for signatures, conducting research, and maintaining contact databases and departmental files.
• Assist with contract administration tasks such as tracking credits, copyright registrations, deal status, option dates, and payment due dates in conjunction with finance department.
• As experience level and training permits, assist with drafting, revising, redlining and proofreading various legal agreements, documents, forms and correspondence.
• Use company systems like Asana, Box, Scenechronize and Film Track to perform duties.
• Assist interns in getting oriented to departmental practices and systems.
• Other duties/projects as assigned.