Music Publishing Manager

This is a Full Time Job

The Publishing Operations team drives the business operations behind Amazon Music's royalty payments & reporting. Our mission is to support the songwriter-creator community, while delivering the best content selection and music experience for our customers. You will be responsible for managing our royalty operations and content licensing strategy to provide the best music experience for our customers. This is a multi-faceted role, where you will be valued for wearing multiple hats and working across traditional boundaries. The ideal candidate has a passion for music, an entrepreneurial spirit, and experience in global rights administration.

In this role:

Execution and Deliver Results
• Your work is both strategic and tactical-you handle complex problems, decisions, and escalations while determining where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcome
• You lead end-to-end delivery of simplified solutions and can present a variety of approaches with their benefits and challenges
• You mitigate long-term risks and find paths forward in difficult to complex situations
• You make trade-offs between short and long-term needs and clear blockers with appropriate resources, escalating when necessary

Scope and Influence
• You influence across teams, stakeholders, and partners-potentially working across an organization and/or a country to meet narrower goals
• You work on programs (potentially multiple) and mentor and develop others

Key job responsibilities
• Cultivate productive relationships with music rightsholders. Communicate proactively and take prompt ownership of client issues.
• Ensure that reports, invoices, and payments flow seamlessly between external rightsholders and internal partners.
• Optimize business processes and operational workflows. Find creative solutions, establish structure, and lead projects that drive efficiency.
• Create financial models to support financial projections, license negotiations, and risk analyses.
• Specify new reports and systems to support our business. Document requirements and partner with engineering teams to drive implementation.
• Track content availability and manage publishing rights in collaboration with Operations and Label Relations teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to design, develop, and test royalty processing systems.
• Review royalty calculations, data, and statements for accuracy.

Qualifications
• 7 years of account management, business development, content licensing or finance experience
• Knowledge of digital music services and business models and the music publishing landscape
• Experience with Excel
• Experience with end-to-end ownership of major project deliverables