Analyst, Global Rights Management

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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

As a key contributor to the Global Rights Management team, this role supports the strategic oversight and operational execution of rights-related activities for Warner Bros. Discovery content and rights systems. The position ensures accurate legal rights data entry, validation, and clearance across platforms, including linear, VOD, and SVOD; and plays a critical role in managing contractual runs and supporting the retirement of legacy systems. The role also contributes to the monthly clearance charts and supports quality control across acquisitions and originals. This role is essential to maintaining the integrity of legal rights data and supporting cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Programming, and Media Supply Chain teams. It is an essential function of this position that the work be performed partially from the Company's offices.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Support all rights systems used by the Global Rights Management team, including legacy Warner Media and Discovery RightsLogic rights management systems.
• Entering, updating and managing complex data, program rights and program information making sure that content rights are kept up to date according to contracts and legal documents.
• Maintain data reflecting complex contractual restrictions for studio-acquired content in RightsLogic and in internal, client-facing program planning tools.
• Work closely with the contracts flow and intercompany stakeholders (Acquisitions, Programming, Legal) with regards to rights
• Partner with legal and business affairs teams to ensure proper interpretation of contractual language and risk management.
• Support rights system separation and data delineation efforts related to the company split, including validation of rights ownership, coordination of intercompany data pipelines, and participation in convergence planning for legacy systems.
• Serve as expert legal resource with deep knowledge of rights and restrictions in studio-acquired series and films and original content.
• Answer rights inquiries from Warner Bros. Discovery network programming and finance teams, studio and network business affairs executives, network distribution clients, and other internal distribution stakeholders.
• Clear monthly VOD and linear schedules for Warner Bros. Discovery networks/services as needed.
• Support clearances for new initiatives, including the sale and/or exhibition of legacy Turner content on FAST channels.
• Seek, recommend, and implement opportunities for improvement in workflows and processes. This may involve collaborating with other Global Rights Management team members or end users to streamline activities for the benefit of the operation.
• Participate in meetings and training sessions related to execution of rights systems transition, consolidation, and retirement strategies.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of two to three years of relevant work experience in the media industry or a reputable legal environment. Solid contract management and analysis required.
• Prior rights analysis and project management experience at a television or entertainment company and/or a legal environment preferred.
• Some college, paralegal certification, or equivalent work experience (see minimum experience requirements above).
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights and/or copyright licensing preferred.
• Ability to interpret/analyze complex rights.
• Project management skills
• Must be an excellent communicator, both orally and written
• Able to self-audit, be resourceful to find answers and make educated decisions, and be able to operate in a continually changing business environment.
• Preferred experience working with a rights management system and complex rights data.
• Ability to use multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems. (i.e., Rights Logic, FileSite) and information management tools (Smartsheet, Airtable, Excel, etc.) required.
• Good knowledge of TV/SVOD and streaming rights
• Knowledge and use of multiple databases, computer applications and legal document management systems (i.e.,SharePoint, FileSite, Smartsheet, and Airtable, Excel).

Additional Information

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here.

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Warner Bros. Company or transition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world's premier entertainment brands.

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Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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Client-provided location(s): Atlanta, GA

Job ID: Discovery-WAMEGLOBALR000100096EXTERNALENGLOBAL

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-13T20:05:01