<p><strong>VaynerX</strong></p> <p>VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now. Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, <strong>the modern-day parent company i</strong>s <strong>home</strong> to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Role Overview:</strong> The Director of Business Affairs will lead a team within the BA department and oversee the business, financial, and legal aspects of content production across broadcast, social, digital, and experiential projects. This person is a strategic leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, capable of working in a fast-paced creative environment. Moving beyond day-to-day administration, this role focuses on high-level production support, complex deal structuring, agency-wide process implementation, and the active mentorship and development of Business Affairs team members. The Director is expected to be a hands-on practitioner, actively involved in the daily work of productions alongside the team.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p><strong>Leadership & Team Management:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage, lead, and build a team with empathy, directness, and humility.</li> <li>Cultivate an inclusive and equitable environment and always apply a solutions-oriented approach to leadership.</li> <li>Guide team members on how to communicate legal issues, timeline hurdles, and potential challenges in a way the creative and business teams will understand.</li> <li>Balance high-level strategy with hands-on, daily execution. Ensure the team is operating with an understanding of modern social media practices and trends.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Production Support & Content Review:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Actively join calls with clients and vendors to support complex productions.</li> <li>Collaborate directly with producers to build and manage comprehensive budgets and timelines for productions.</li> <li>Review ideas, scripts and content with a network Standards & Practices lens, ensuring content will comply with network rules, claim substantiation requirements, and regulatory standards (FTC, CARU, etc.) before produced.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Oversee production insurance coverage (including general liability, equipment, and Errors & Omissions), reviewing shoot-specific risks and securing necessary certificates of insurance (COIs).</li> <li>Develop and align on complex production processes that fit within client requirements (marketing, legal, and procurement), agency capabilities, and agreed-upon deliverables.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Deal Negotiations & Business Relationships:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Review client Master Services Agreements (MSAs) with the legal department, advising specifically on the talent, music, and general production provisions.</li> <li>Review and negotiate production company, director, photographer, and post-production vendor agreements utilizing AICP, AICE, and agency-standard templates.</li> <li>Oversee talent payment operations via third-party paymasters (e.g., Extreme Reach), managing union residuals, session reporting, and SAG-AFTRA claims or audits.</li> <li>Leverage an understanding of platform capabilities, functionality, usage, and content types to creatively structure deals that maximize client goals.</li> <li>Take meetings with vendors and social platforms, identifying potential partners that will enhance business operations or be an asset to our clients.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Process, Operations & Training:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Identify gaps in agency procedures and help implement improvements to company resources, systems, processes, and tools.</li> <li>Practice a growth mindset, embracing challenges and sharing ideas to open doors for cross-departmental collaboration.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10-15 years of experience in Business Affairs, preferably at a creative advertising agency.</li> <li>Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing a team.</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of SAG/AFTRA and non-union talent contracts.</li> <li>Deep knowledge of music licensing, stock footage licensing, and intellectual property licensing for media.</li> <li>Solid understanding of TV production and post-production processes, with deep familiarity of AICP and AICE bid forms. </li> <li>Experience with experiential production.</li> <li>Exceptional written, negotiation, and verbal communication skills.</li> <li>A positive, hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" attitude. A true team player that enjoys working collaboratively, as well as independently.</li> <li>Big picture thinker who is proactive, anticipates potential issues, and deals with them effectively.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>This position is currently designated as hybrid and is subject to the Company's workplace attendance and in-office work requirements, as