Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FM’s Trust is the funding and development arm of the FM.co family of brands, providing filmmakers with capital and resources to bring their visions to life and licensing footage to generate revenue. The Content Partnerships Coordinator will manage contract editors, curate footage, source and negotiate asset buyouts, and maintain the contracts, rights, records, budgets, and workflows supporting the content library.
Responsibilities
- Manage a roster of contract editors, including finding new editors, assigning work, setting curation standards, reviewing output, and giving clear feedback
- Own curation quality across footage: what makes the cut, how it's organized, and how it's prepped for the library
- Keep editors unblocked and on schedule, balancing efficiency with quality
- Maintain and refine curation guidelines as the catalog and Trust's needs evolve
- Source pre-made assets that fit Trust's library strategy and gaps
- Evaluate assets for quality, rights, fit, and ROI before purchase
- Negotiate and execute buyouts, tracking spend against budget
- Maintain clean records of what was bought, from whom, and under what terms
- Help analyze and evaluate buyout process to ensure that each opportunity is fair and valuable
- Own the paperwork and tracking tied to editor contracts and asset purchases (agreements, invoices, payment coordination, rights documentation, talent and property releases)
- Own the management of footage as it moves through the pipeline (footage review, tagging, featuring stand out footage, and operating within Trust’s footage management platform)
- Keep acquisition and curation data accurate and current in our systems
- Report on pipeline status, spend, and throughput to Director of Trust
- Coordinate across Trust and the wider FM org as needed
Skills
- * Experience managing contractors or freelancers, ideally editors or creative talent
- * A strong eye for footage quality and a sense for what makes a library valuable - understanding what's trending in advertising
- * Comfort with buyout/licensing negotiating and the rights questions that come with them
- * Organized and detail-driven
- * Self-directed and able to own a workflow end-to-end
- * Clear, direct communicator
- * Background in commercial producing, post-production, or media licensing
- * Familiarity with digital asset managers and project management platforms like ClickUp
- * Experience tracking budgets or spend
- * Experience negotiating deals for projects
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