[Hiring] Senior Product Manager, Rights & Royalties Modernization @Warner Music Group

Role Description

As a Product Manager for Rights & Royalties Modernization at WMG, you will own new platforms that define who owns what, and who is owed what, across one of the largest music catalogs in the world. Every stream, sync deal, and payout depends on accurate rights data and deal performance calculation. In this role, you will use modern, AI-enabled platforms to replace legacy royalty and accounting processes and to improve how we manage our global rights portfolio and pay our artists. You will shape the strategy, roadmap, and organizational change needed for how WMG captures, validates, and activates rights across our recorded music catalog, so music reaches fans and everyone gets paid accurately and on time.

What you'll do

• Product Ownership: Own the roadmap, both tactical and strategic, for your area. Communicate priorities clearly to engineering, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, UX design, finance, accounting, legal, business affairs, and label operations stakeholders to turn complex contractual rules into clear, scalable software.
• Rights & Royalties Data Management: Build new products that capture and maintain ownership splits, territorial rights, terms, and more at a global scale, and then use these contractual terms to automate financial tracking and artist payouts, replacing legacy tools and processes with scalable, auditable systems.
• User Understanding: Develop a deep understanding of your users across business affairs, copyright administration, A&R, and finance, then design tools that remove manual work from their day.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Define and track KPIs around rights (e.g. data accuracy, completeness) and royalties (e.g. time-to-pay, calculation accuracy).

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of product management or equivalent experience, including building technical products from idea to launch.
• Hands-on experience with music rights and royalties (e.g. royalty accounting, licensing, rights management). Strong candidates with deep experience in music, or in accounting and finance systems will also be considered.
• Comfortable working with engineers on data models, APIs, and system integrations. Understand the software development lifecycle and can go deep on complex data problems.
• Proven ability to simplify complex business rules and competing stakeholder needs into clear product decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to explain rights concepts to technical teams and technical tradeoffs to business partners and executives.
• A genuine love for music and a respect for the artists and songwriters behind it.

Requirements

• Experience with rights or royalty systems at a label, publisher, collecting society, or DSP.
• Experience interfacing with ERP systems like SAP or Oracle.
• Experience building master data or source-of-truth platforms.
• Experience using AI tools in a hands-on way to rapidly iterate and build products.
• Knowledge of key industry concepts (e.g. identifiers like ISRCs, common recording deal structures, neighboring rights and digital performance royalties).

Benefits

• This position offers a base salary of $144,000 - $175,000 CAD.
• In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a performance-based annual bonus.

Company Description

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. Our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.