Manager- Rights Management, Legal

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).

• →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

• 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

• 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

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.