Business Affairs Manager

Influencer•New York, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Business Affairs Manager to join our North America team, as a pivotal driver of our global contracting infrastructure. Reporting to the Business Affairs Director, you will be the primary lead for creator contracts, ensuring engagements are efficient and compliant. You will be instrumental in the implementation, roll out, and training across our new CLM tool, ensuring we optimise its potential for redlining creator agreements, standardise workflows, and enable self-service for all teams. You will also interact with our proprietary platform, Waves, and the creator agreement workflow, ensuring a seamless bridge between legal compliance and campaign execution as the business scales.

Requirements

3-5 years' experience in Business Affairs, Legal Ops, Contracts, or a closely related function
Background in agency, media, marketing, or production environments strongly preferred
Working knowledge of a CLM tool
Proven ability to draft and review commercial agreements independently and to a high standard
A comfortable familiarity with AI tools and prompting. You don’t need to be a pro, but an interest in learning how to use them really well is beneficial
Strong commercial judgement and meticulous attention to detail
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Resilient self-starter who can operate with autonomy and good judgement
Comfortable negotiating

Nice To Haves

Legal qualification not required but welcomed; familiarity with creator economy and specific US (FTC) and UK/EU (ASA/GDPR) legislation is a plus

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate creator agreements, and other ad hoc commercial agreements with a focus on global consistency.
Support contracting processes for creator engagements across the business.
Flag commercial and legal risk to the Business Affairs Director in a clear and timely manner.
Ensure agreements align with internal policies and applicable regulatory requirements (e.g., FTC, SAG-AFTRA, or platform-specific terms).
Assist with US compliance requirements and lead communication with relevant third party partners; helping to maintain and strengthen those external relationships.
Own, maintain, update and train staff across our CLM , Including standardising contract templates and workflows, specifically focusing on the automated redlining of creator facing documents.
Build out a library of playbooks and SOPs to ensure the Business Affairs function is scalable, documented, and updated on our CLM.
Where applicable, develop and deliver key trainings for internal teams.
Be the voice of BA for workflows via Waves (Influencer’s proprietary platform).
Support cross-functional teams with contract related queries and guidance.
Drive improvements to contract management systems and workflows to increase speed and efficiency.