Marcom - Business Affairs Clearance Specialist, App Store
Job Summary:
Marcom is Apple’s Global Marketing Communications group. We oversee all of Apple’s advertising and marketing to ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications.
The App Store Clearance Specialist role is responsible for securing the rights and clearances of third-party IP in connection with the marketing of Apps and other third party content, and maintaining and preserving industry relationships.
Key Qualifications:
- Relevant Experience: 7-10 years relevant experience on a Business Affairs, or content licensing team at a creative agency or other content-focused industry, content production company, or App-focused brand
- Experience with Licensing and Contracts: Ability to draw conclusions from working knowledge of issues and risks that impact the area of rights licensing, including copyright and trademark law, public domain, fair use, rights of publicity
- Knowledge of Industry Standards: Understanding of App Store guidelines and policies and awareness of trends and developments in the app market, including new regulations, emerging technologies and changing user expectations
- Skills & Competencies: Demonstrated ability to work across multiple projects with varying ranges of complexity
- Proven ability to exercise sound, strategic, and executable legal & business judgment
- Demonstrated skill in concise and clear written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
- Calm approach, sound judgment, organized, excels at time management
- Excellent negotiation skills
Description:
- Act as a core member of Apple’s Global Marketing Business Affairs team, partnering with various internal stake holders across Marketing, Services, Legal, Business, and Product teams to drive successful outcomes.
- Review and clear third-party app & game content being considered for placement in Apple’s Marketing, maintaining and improving a system for intake of clearance requests, that includes timely, transparent status, efficient processing within strict deadlines, and world-class developer experience.
- Uphold clearance standards that align with global Marcom Business Affairs objectives
- Address complex IP and licensing issues. Employ creative problem-solving, risk mitigation strategies, and relationship management to support creative objectives.
- Build rapport and facilitate connection between multiple stakeholders across the organization, providing strategic options to internal teams, ensuring proper compliance and appropriate usage of third-party IP
- Identify and mitigate risk throughout creative brainstorming, production, and execution phases of marketing projects
- Process digital assets from external partners and track them in an internal asset management system
- Partner with Legal for guidance on trademark and legal issues and to provide business context for contract negotiations
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree required. JD or MBA desirable.
