VP, Rights Management

Radial Entertainment is a newly formed global entertainment company, formed through the merger of Shout! Studios and FilmRise, backed by Oaktree Capital Management. Radial boasts a diverse library of over 70,000 movies and episodes, making it the largest independent catalog in the industry. The company delivers high-quality entertainment to all major consumer platforms including FAST channels, AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, physical product, theatrical film and more. Its programming spans a wide range of genres, including true crime, reality, animation, action, westerns, horror, award-winners, cult classics, creator content, and more. Radial is the pre-eminent, purpose-built independent distributor for the streaming era.

We are seeking a VP, Rights Management to join Radial Entertainment. The VP, Rights Management will play a critical role in leading the implementation and long-term ownership of the company’s consolidated Rights Management System (Rightsline), a strategic, high-visibility initiative supporting content acquisitions, business affairs, operations, sales, and finance. This role will serve as Radial’s internal owner and decision-maker for the rights management program, partnering closely with executive leadership, external implementation partners, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery, system integrity, and long-term scalability. The ideal candidate combines deep rights management expertise with strong program leadership and the ability to drive complex system implementations in a fast-paced, private equity-backed environment.

Department: Business Affairs

Reports to: COO (or Executive Leadership Team until COO onboarded)

Exemption Status: Exempt

Pay Rate: $180k – $220k DOE

Paid Time Off: Holidays, Paid Sick Leave

Compensation: Full benefits package (for employee option) or 1099 engagement available

Work Location: Hybrid (Preferred Los Angeles)

Duration: 12 months with potential path to permanent

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Radial’s primary representative and accountable owner across the full program, with a core focus on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of Rights In and Rights Out inputs within the rights management system.
• This role underpins all downstream functions, enabling Sales, Operations, and other teams to execute effectively.
• Act as the central point of accountability for the external implementation team while being directly responsible to Radial leadership for delivery and outcomes.
• Direct and manage the external program team day-to-day: drive the workplan, hold milestones, surface risks early, and escalate decisively when needed
• Own all business-side sign-offs: process flows, functional requirements, UAT scripts, test results, and final data reconciliation before go-live
• Serve as Radial’s subject matter authority: translating business needs (rights logic, contract structures, collision requirements, avails workflows) into clear, actionable direction for the external team and Rightsline
• Coordinate Radial’s internal SMEs across Sales, Operations, Finance, Legal, and IT: ensuring their participation, input, and timely sign-off at each phase
• Lead SteerCo alignment with the COO and General Counsel: weekly status, risk logs, key decisions, and escalation management
• Coordinate critical data migration decisions: advise on source data extractions across three legacy systems, validating transformation logic, and approving reconciliation outputs before cutover
• Validate that change management and training reflect how teams actually work: ensure that the business is genuinely ready to adopt the system before go-live
• Drive a clean handoff at program completion: full documentation, operational runbooks, and a long-term ownership model in place, ideally with you as that owner

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in rights management positions in licensing-based industries
• Meaningful hands-on experience with Rightsline or a comparable enterprise RMS (MoltenCloud, iRights, or similar): deep enough to hold your own with experienced external implementation consultants and Rightsline PS on configuration and design decisions
• Familiarity with rights-in/rights-out workflows, window management, collision detection, avails generation, and waterfall structures is highly valued
• A track record of owning the client side of a complex technology or systems implementation: someone who has been the accountable business owner, not just a participant
• Strong enough business acumen to translate rights and contract complexity into clear direction, and enough PM instinct to keep a multi-workstream program on track across multiple organizations simultaneously
• Experience managing and directing third-party consulting teams: setting expectations, holding them accountable, and knowing when to push back
• Cross-functional credibility: comfortable representing Radial’s interests authoritatively to Sales, Operations, Finance, Legal, and IT at the same time
• Post-merger or multi-system consolidation experience is a strong differentiator: especially migrating data from multiple legacy platforms into a unified source of truth
• Self-starter: you identify the next problem before you’re told about it, and you move to execute, willing to roll up your sleeves
• Ambition to grow with the company: ideally, you want to own rights management at Radial long after the implementation is complete
• Entertainment law background or contract documentation fluency is a meaningful differentiator

Radial Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.