TELLING CAPTIVATING STORIES TO AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE
Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI) is an international streamer, production studio, advertising sales and rights-management business. The company operates a diverse portfolio of free streaming and pay TV channels internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, and Love Pets, as well as the subscription streaming service MagellanTV. Its studio business produces and distributes a wide range of premium content across key genres for streaming and broadcast platforms worldwide. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with a presence in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore, London, Washington, Sydney, Halifax, and Ottawa. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn
Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.
Integration Rights Analyst (6-Month Contract)
The Integration Asset Analyst supports the onboarding and management of content assets, rights data, and metadata, ensuring information is accurate, accessible, and aligned with business and distribution requirements.
This new role will report to the Senior Director, International Distribution and Business Operations and is a hybrid position requiring in-office attendance at our head office in Toronto for a minimum of three (3) days per week.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $50,000 - $60,000 per year, with final compensation determined by experience and qualifications.
Core Responsibilities and Duties
Sales & Rights Support
- Support global sales teams by providing accurate rights availability, restrictions, and windowing information.
- Review deal terms and confirm rights alignment across territories, platforms, and languages.
Rights Management
- Maintain and manage rights data across internal systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Track rights usage, expiries, holdbacks, and exclusivity across all licensed content.
- Interpret complex contracts to extract and input key rights information.
Contract Analysis
- Analyze license agreements and term sheets to validate rights, obligations, and deliverables.
- Flag risks, conflicts, or discrepancies in rights allocations and escalate as needed.
- Collaborate with Legal and Acquisitions to clarify contract terms and resolve issues.
Data & Reporting
- Generate rights reports for sales, finance, and management teams.
- Support audits and provide insights on rights availability and performance.
- Ensure data integrity across rights management systems and tools.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Sales, Acquisitions, Finance, and Operations to align on rights strategy.
- Act as a key point of contact for rights-related inquiries across departments.
Systems & Process Improvement
- Support enhancements to rights management systems (Rightsline).
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and data tracking.
- Assist in system migrations and data validation projects.
Qualifications and Experience
● The ability to parse complex legal documents (Distribution Agreements, License Agreements) to identify "chain of title" and delivery obligations.
● Power-user proficiency in Rightsline (or similar platforms like FilmTrack, MediaRights) to manage complex windows and territories.
● Experience in data migration and mapping.
● High-level Excel skills for data validation, auditing, and ensuring consistency.
● The ability to visualize how data flows between Legal, Finance, and Media Services/Global Deliveries during a company merger or acquisition.
● Meticulous attention to detail required to resolve "legacy ambiguities" and clean up historical data gaps.
● Aligning asset ingestion workflows with corporate strategy, ensuring high-value content is integrated and "sales-ready" first.
● Identify bottlenecks in how rights and assets are linked and propose structural improvements to the data pipeline.
Skills Required
- Ability to parse complex distribution and license agreements to identify chain of title and delivery obligations
- Power-user proficiency in Rightsline or similar rights-management platforms such as FilmTrack or MediaRights
- Experience with data migration and mapping
- High-level Microsoft Excel skills for data validation and auditing
- Ability to visualize data flows between Legal, Finance, and Media Services or Global Deliveries during mergers or acquisitions
- Meticulous attention to detail for resolving legacy ambiguities and historical data gaps
- Ability to align asset ingestion workflows with corporate strategy and prioritize high-value content
- Ability to identify rights and asset-linking bottlenecks and propose structural data-pipeline improvements
What We Do
Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international content producer, distributor and channel operator. We own and operate numerous production companies in North America and Asia-Pacific, creating content for broadcasters and streaming platforms in multiple genres including factual entertainment, natural history, documentary and adult animation. Our distribution business, Blue Ant International, offers a substantial catalogue of content, including one of the world's largest 4K natural history offerings. Blue Ant Media operates linear and free streaming channels under several brands including Love Nature, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth (Canada), BBC First (Canada), HauntTV, CrimeTime and TotalCrime. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with seven international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Washington and Beijing.
