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Business Affairs Clearance Manager, App Store - Korea

Apple· Marketing
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Hybrid (Seoul)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The App Store Clearance Manager role manages rights and clearances for third-party IP in App Store marketing, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure legal compliance, brand-appropriate content, and timely clearance for marketing campaigns in Korea.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a core member of Apple’s Global Marketing Business Affairs team, partnering with internal stakeholders across Marketing, Services, Legal, Business, and Product teams to drive successful outcomes
  • Review and clear third-party App & Game content being considered for placement in Apple’s Marketing, maintaining and improving a system for intake of clearance requests, with timely, transparent status, efficient processing within strict deadlines, and world-class developer experience
  • Uphold clearance standards that align with global Marcom Business Affairs objectives
  • Identify and address complex IP and licensing issues, employing creative problem-solving, risk mitigation strategies, and relationship management to support creative objectives
  • Build rapport and facilitate connections between multiple stakeholders across the organization, providing strategic options to internal teams, ensuring proper compliance and appropriate usage of third-party IP
  • Identify and mitigate risk throughout creative brainstorming, production, and execution phases of marketing projects
  • Process digital assets from external partners and track them in an internal asset management system
  • Partner with Legal for guidance on trademark and legal issues and to provide business context for contract negotiations

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years relevant experience on a Business Affairs, or content licensing team at a creative agency or other content-focused industry, content production company, or App-focused brand
  • Ability to draw conclusions from working knowledge of issues and risks that impact the area of rights licensing, including copyright and trademark law, public domain, fair use, rights of publicity
  • Experience assessing risk and mitigation as it relates to partner IP and proficiency in analyzing and interpreting complex contracts and licensing agreements
  • Understanding of legal aspects related to digital content, including copyright, trademark, and licensing issues
  • Business Level proficiency in both English and Korean
  • Familiarity with Korean culture and regulatory environment
  • Bachelor’s Degree required. JD or MBA desirable
  • Understanding of App Store guidelines and policies and awareness of trends and developments in the app market, including new regulations, emerging technologies and changing user expectations
  • Understanding of varied Marketing channels and placements (digital marketing, earned and owned social, print, OOH, CTV, etc.)
  • Demonstrated ability to work across multiple projects with varying ranges of complexity
  • Proven ability to exercise sound, strategic, and executable legal & business judgment
  • Demonstrated skill in concise and clear written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
  • Calm approach, sound judgment, organized, excels at time management; proven ability to co-elevate and lead without authority
  • Excellent negotiation skills
  • Demonstrated deep curiosity and avid user of AI

Skills

Required:Rights licensing and IP clearanceContract negotiation and interpretationRegulatory and legal awareness (Korean market)

Benefits

  • Inclusion and diversity commitments as an equal opportunity employer
  • Accommodation for applicants with disabilities
  • Accessibility-focused resources and culture
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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