Amazon

Sr. Content Acquisition Manager, Music Publishing

Amazon$127K — $172K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in account management, business development, content licensing, or finance
  • Understanding of digital music services and music publishing
  • Proficient in Excel for data analysis
  • Experience handling major project deliverables end-to-end
  • Familiarity with SQL for database queries (preferred)
  • Experience in measuring brand client impact and ROI (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate effective relationships with music rightsholders and proactively address client issues
  • Ensure seamless flow of reports, invoices, and payments between rightsholders and internal teams
  • Optimize business processes for efficiency and impactful operations
  • Develop financial models for projections, negotiations, and risk assessments
  • Specify and document requirements for new reports and systems with engineering teams
  • Track content availability and manage publishing rights with relevant teams
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product to innovate royalty processing systems
  • Review royalty calculations and statements for accuracy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave policies
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement options
  • Access to mental health support and employee assistance programs
Full Job Description
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.

BASIC 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of database query technologies (SQL)

- Experience with brand client measurements, goals and return on investment requirements

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Culver City - 127,500.00 - 172,500.00 USD annually

About Amazon

Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment , on the Internet. They provide premium spoken audio content, such as audio versions of books and newspapers and radio programs, that is delivered over the Internet and played back on personal computers and hand-held electronic devices. The Audible service allows consumers to purchase and download their content from their Website, store it in digital files and play it back on personal computers and electronic devices. More than 15,000 hours of audio content are available on their Web site, including audio versions of books, periodicals and radio programs. Several manufacturers have agreed to support and promote the playback of their content on their hand-held audio-enabled electronic devices.

Amazon Careers

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