Minimum qualifications:* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.* 4 years of experience in contract management, business affairs or within roles that work with legal contracts, principles and/or regulations.* Experience working with cross-functional teams (e.g. Legal, Finance, and Marketing).Preferred qualifications:* JD degree or equivalent.* Experience within a media, marketing or entertainment company or department, or entertainment or media-focused law firm.* Experience working across marketing and creative contracts.* Understanding of media and content license language and rights, copyright law, talent rights, trademark law, and personality rights. Working knowledge of country’s advertising law.* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.About the jobGoogle’s Marketing Operations team is here to inspire and enable global creative work. We develop programs focused on Agency Management, Production Operations, MarTech and Business Affairs. Equal parts business partners and marketing governance, with knowledge of the agency landscape and creative process. Digital Asset Management is a growing team within Production Operations.As a Contracts and Business Affairs Manager, you will be working with our Program Managers to partner on guiding the necessary contractual work through to completion efficiently and collaboratively, working to project manage and simplify the contractual aspects necessary with the Marketing organization. You are responsible for understanding the needs of the marketer, anticipating the legal issues that arise and preempting the questions of the legal and finance teams.You will be able to advise, review and analyze across a number of agreements: statements of work, license agreements, sponsorship agreements and talent releases. You have an excellent sense of how to manage large volumes of work across highly-matrixed, complex organizations. You bring a solid collaborative approach which helps as you work with agencies (creative, research, events, etc.), service providers, content providers and talent management and agents.As the Contracts and Business Affairs Manager role is highly cross-functional, you will engage with Marketing personnel at all levels, including assisting in training new Marketing team members. Your experience will help us unlock new ways of working and enable us to develop methods of streamlining and improving internal contract workflows and processes.Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google’s products solve the world’s problems–from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can–changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.Responsibilities* Work with the marketing team throughout the contracting processes to advise on legal issues and documents related to a wide range of Marketing projects.* Partner with the legal teams to steer agreements through the legal process from start to completion on behalf of the Marketer.* Work cross-functionally with our compliance, finance, and other departments to ensure obligations and requirements of Marketing agreements are fully understood and being met, with the organization remaining in compliance with all of its obligations and requirements.* Partner with legal to develop/improve legal templates and processes to reduce contracting turnaround time.