Director, Content Licensing & Distribution

Crazy Maple Studio•Culver City, CA

9h•$150,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Crazy Maple Studio is a fast-growing company based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, focusing on mobile gaming, reading, and streaming. We are proud to have a global team that drives our innovation and success across diverse markets. Our flagship platform, ReelShort, is the #1 vertical streaming app in the U.S., with over 8 million DAU, delivering bite-sized episodic content that keeps viewers hooked. Other standout products include Chapters, where users shape immersive stories across drama, fantasy, and romance, and My Fiction, a platform for consuming and creating serialized romance. We’re proud to be recognized as one of the Global Most Loved Workplaces 2025, reflecting our commitment to innovation, creativity, and an employee-first culture. ReelShort is seeking an experienced content sales executive to build our licensing business across North America and Latin America. Based in Los Angeles and reporting to the General Manager, this role takes our owned library into the studios, streamers, and regional buyers, and builds the deal infrastructure that makes it repeatable. This is a relationship-led role: we are hiring for a network at the senior executive level and for the ability to walk a catalogue into a room and close on it.

Requirements

8+ years in content sales, distribution, or licensing at a studio, distributor, or major streamer, with a documented track record of closed deals and the revenue attached to them
An active network of decision-makers at the SVP and EVP level across the major studios and streamers
Deal fluency: you can structure format versus finished-tape versus remake rights, negotiate minimum guarantees and back-end, and read a long-form distribution agreement without waiting on counsel for the basics
Comfort selling a non-traditional format — vertical short drama is unfamiliar to most buyers, and you can build the category case rather than only pitch a title
Direct experience selling into Latin America and North America, including familiarity with the regional broadcaster and streamer landscape
Willing to operate as an individual contributor in year one, with the ability to build a team as the business grows
Diligent, resourceful, and comfortable in a fast-moving environment

Nice To Haves

Spanish or Portuguese capability a strong plus
Prior work with unscripted, sports, or brand-adjacent IP a plus
Existing agency and management relationships a plus

Responsibilities

Build and run the outbound licensing pipeline for owned content into US studios, streamers, and ad-supported platforms
Close format rights, remake rights, and finished-tape deals end to end, from first conversation through signed long-form agreement
Develop distribution across Latin America, North America, and emerging platform partners, including co-production and revenue-share structures
Set pricing and windowing strategy for the catalogue by territory and by rights type
Build the deal infrastructure: rate card, deal templates, an avails and rights-tracking system, and a quarterly pipeline review
Represent the company at the markets that matter for these territories — AFM, NATPE, MIPCOM — with meetings booked in advance