Business & Legal Affairs Coordinator - New York, United States - Peanuts Worldwide

Description

Job Description

Location: New York, New York

Hybrid work: Employees work in a hybrid model balancing collaboration in our office and remote work.

Compensation: $55K USD- $65K USD

Find a job that lets your imagination run wild

Join our Peanuts Worldwide team, part of the global WildBrain organization, to make us part of your story From Peanuts shows and specials on Apple TV+ to interactive experiences worldwide, fans of all ages celebrate the Peanuts brand through thousands of consumer products, as well as amusement park attractions, cultural events, social media, and comic strips available in all formats from traditional to digital. Peanuts Worldwide is a subsidiary of WildBrain Ltd., a global kids' media and content company headquartered in Canada with offices worldwide.

About the Role
Peanuts Worldwide is seeking a Business & Legal Affairs Coordinator to join our dedicated team, providing crucial support to our Peanuts Worldwide legal team Reporting to the Director, Contract Management, this role will play a key part in delivering day-to-day business and legal support to facilitate Peanuts Worldwide's diverse range of activities. These activities include expanding our iconic brand through global licensing, strengthening our digital presence, enhancing location-based entertainment experiences, and engaging in charitable initiatives, all with the goal of staying connected with our fans, reaching new audiences and promoting the Peanuts brand worldwide. This role provides vital support to the legal team, including managing contracts, maintaining filing systems, responding to document requests, and assisting with legal document drafting and administrative tasks.

• Assisting lawyers and contract administrators with contract administration (e.g., arranging for the timely execution and distribution of contracts, assisting with administrative filings with trademark and customs offices worldwide, etc.)
• Creating and maintaining well-organized filing systems and reports
• Responding to routine requests for documents and forwarding questions to appropriate internal teams
• Managing and tracking high-volume agreements, including entering contract information into status reports
• Assisting with antipiracy enforcement and using intellectual property protection tools to search and remove infringing products and content
• Drafting standard license agreements, amendments, and other legal documents from templates
• Other administrative support, including filing, scanning, photocopying, and mailing as needed

• Minimum Associate's degree required
• Experience in a legal or administrative assistant capacity or experience managing or drafting standard form legal contracts
• Paralegal certificate or experience working in the Licensing or Intellectual Property field an asset
• Excellent drafting, organizational and time management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple complex, confidential files
• Ability to work easily in a fast-paced and high-volume environment with changing priorities, timelines and processes
• Strong ability to prioritize workload and problem solve
• The ability to be adaptable and provide excellent service to internal clients
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a willingness to collaborate
• High competency level for computer literacy and agility working with cloud-based software applications such as MS Office, Outlook, Adobe, etc.

What We Offer

Working at WildBrain is more than a job — it's the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive family-focused benefits, we invest in our people and their future with generous RRSP matching, plus bonus time-off, because you deserve it

Our Commitment

Diversity and Inclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment, we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us, a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees, stakeholders, and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and brings their authentic self to work.

We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees. We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we've listed here, we encourage you to please still consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.

About WildBrain: a parent company of Peanuts Worldwide

At WildBrain we inspire imaginations through the wonder of storytelling. As a leader in 360°ree; IP management, we are experts in content creation, audience engagement and global licensing, cultivating and growing love for our own and partner brands with kids and families around the world. With approximately 13,000 half-hours of filmed entertainment in our library—one of the world's most extensive—we are home to such treasured franchises as Peanuts, Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake, Yo Gabba Gabba, Caillou, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi. WildBrain's mission is to create exceptional entertainment experiences that captivate and delight fans both young and young at heart.

Our studios produce such award-winning series as The Snoopy Show; Snoopy in Space; Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City; Sonic Prime; Chip and Potato; Teletubbies Let's Go and many more. Enjoyed in more than 150 countries on over 500 platforms, our content is everywhere kids and families view entertainment, including YouTube, where our network has garnered over 1 trillion minutes of watch time. Our television group owns and operates some of Canada's most-viewed family entertainment channels. WildBrain CPLG, our leading consumer-products and location-based entertainment agency, represents our owned and partner properties in every major territory worldwide.

WildBrain is headquartered in Canada with offices worldwide and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at