About this role
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.
Position Overview:
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.
Key Responsibilities:
Build and run the outbound licensing pipeline for owned content into US studios, streamers, and ad-supported platformsClose format rights, remake rights, and finished-tape deals end to end, from first conversation through signed long-form agreementDevelop distribution across Latin America, North America, and emerging platform partners, including co-production and revenue-share structuresSet pricing and windowing strategy for the catalogue by territory and by rights typeBuild the deal infrastructure: rate card, deal templates, an avails and rights-tracking system, and a quarterly pipeline reviewRepresent the company at the markets that matter for these territories — AFM, NATPE, MIPCOM — with meetings booked in advanceRequirements
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 themAn active network of decision-makers at the SVP and EVP level across the major studios and streamersDeal 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 basicsComfort 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 titleDirect experience selling into Latin America and North America, including familiarity with the regional broadcaster and streamer landscapeSpanish or Portuguese capability a strong plusPrior work with unscripted, sports, or brand-adjacent IP a plusExisting agency and management relationships a plusWilling to operate as an individual contributor in year one, with the ability to build a team as the business growsDiligent, resourceful, and comfortable in a fast-moving environmentBenefits
Crazy Maple Studio, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Our target salary range for this role is between $150,000 and $200,000. Actual starting salary within the range will depend on various considerations, including: work experience, skills, specializations, and training. This role is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, competitive healthcare, and other employee benefits.