The Manager of Rights Management will provide legal advisory and manage rights data while overseeing a team ensuring compliance in content monetisation efforts.
Role Summary
This role sits at the intersection of legal advisory, content monetisation, and rights systems management. The incumbent will act as a key enabler for business teams by providing clear guidance on content exploitation within contractual boundaries, while ensuring accuracy and integrity of rights data within the Rights Management System (RMS).
Key Responsibilities
- Interpret production, acquisition, licensing, and syndication agreements to advise on permissible exploitation across platforms, formats, languages, and territories
- Act as a point of contact for all rights-related queries from internal stakeholders (content, syndication, distribution, product, and operations teams)
- Provide clear and actionable guidance to enable content monetisation while ensuring contractual compliance
- Manage and ensure accuracy of rights data within the RMS, including metadata structuring, validation, and audit readiness
- Partner with product and technology teams to enhance RMS workflows, data capture standards, and reporting capabilities
- Identify monetisation opportunities, rights gaps, and under-utilised rights through proactive contract analysis
- Flag and manage risks, ambiguities, and restrictions in both legacy and ongoing deals, including defining escalation thresholds where required
- Oversee and manage a team supporting rights ingestion, validation, and query resolution
- Support internal alignment by creating standardised interpretation frameworks, playbooks, and guidance notes
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 4–6 years PQE
- Experience in media/entertainment, digital platforms, broadcast networks, or law firms with IP/media focus
- Strong experience in contract interpretation, particularly content licensing, acquisition, and syndication agreements
- Working knowledge of content rights constructs (territories, platforms, windows, formats, exclusivity, language rights, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to translate legal provisions into clear, business enabling-advice
- Exposure to rights management systems, content databases, or legal-tech workflows is strongly preferred
- Experience working cross-functionally with business, tech, and operations teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred / Good to Have
- Experience with rights management platforms
- Prior involvement in RMS implementation, migration, or transformation projects
- Experience in handling high-volume content libraries and legacy contract frameworks
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical to ensuring that JioStar maximises the value of its content library while maintaining strict contractual compliance. It combines legal expertise with operational ownership and directly impacts revenue enablement, risk mitigation, and system efficiency.
About Us
Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.
JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.
JioStar Thāne, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
Reliance Corporate IT Park LTD, Build.5, 1st Floor, C-Wi, 5, Thāne, Maharashtra , India, 400701
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