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About the Role

The Director of Business Affairs will lead a team and oversee the business, financial, and legal aspects of content production across broadcast, social, digital, and experiential projects. This role focuses on high-level production support, complex deal structuring, agency-wide process implementation, and the mentorship and development of Business Affairs team members, while also being a hands-on practitioner actively involved in daily production work.

Responsibilities

Manage, lead, and build a team with empathy, directness, and humility.
Cultivate an inclusive and equitable environment and always apply a solutions-oriented approach to leadership.
Guide team members on how to communicate legal issues, timeline hurdles, and potential challenges in a way the creative and business teams will understand.
Balance high-level strategy with hands-on, daily execution.
Ensure the team is operating with an understanding of modern social media practices and trends.
Actively join calls with clients and vendors to support complex productions.
Collaborate directly with producers to build and manage comprehensive budgets and timelines for productions.
Review ideas, scripts and content with a network Standards & Practices lens, ensuring compliance with network rules, claim substantiation requirements, and regulatory standards.
Advise creative and production teams on evolving legal and business risks surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), likeness rights, voice cloning, and digital platform terms of service.
Oversee production insurance coverage, reviewing shoot-specific risks and securing necessary certificates of insurance (COIs).
Develop and align on complex production processes that fit within client requirements, agency capabilities, and agreed-upon deliverables.
Build production-specific templates and actively educate the production teams on how and when to use them.
Continuously identify areas for improvement in forms and draft updates.
Review client Master Services Agreements (MSAs) with the legal department, advising on talent, music, and general production provisions.
Review and negotiate production company, director, photographer, and post-production vendor agreements.
Oversee talent payment operations via third-party paymasters, managing union residuals, session reporting, and SAG-AFTRA claims or audits.
Leverage an understanding of platform capabilities, functionality, usage, and content types to creatively structure deals that maximize client goals.
Take meetings with vendors and social platforms, identifying potential partners that will enhance business operations or be an asset to our clients.
Identify gaps in agency procedures and help implement improvements to company resources, systems, processes, and tools.
Practice a growth mindset, embracing challenges and sharing ideas to open doors for cross-departmental collaboration.

Requirements

10-15 years of experience in Business Affairs, preferably at a creative advertising agency.
Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing a team.
Exceptional written, negotiation, and verbal communication skills.
A positive, hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" attitude.
A true team player that enjoys working collaboratively, as well as independently.
Big picture thinker who is proactive, anticipates potential issues, and deals with them effectively.
All information submitted with this application and disclosed in the interview and screening processes must be truthful.

Skills

Extensive knowledge of SAG/AFTRA and non-union talent contracts.
Deep knowledge of music licensing, stock footage licensing, and intellectual property licensing for media.
Solid understanding of TV production and post-production processes.
Deep familiarity of AICP and AICE bid forms.
Experience with experiential production.

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director

Salary/Compensations

$135,000—$155,000 USD

Benefits

Employer-sponsored 401k with match
Medical, Dental, and vision coverage
Unlimited PTO
Caregiver (Parental) Leave
Health and Wellness benefits

About the Company

VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now.
Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, the modern-day parent company is home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.

Equal Opportunity

VaynerX is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status (as permitted by applicable law), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Unsure if you meet the qualifications? We are always looking for talent which will continue to cultivate an inclusive and representative team that will enhance our perspectives, skill sets, background, and behaviors.
We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!