Senior Manager, Royalty Administration & Onboarding

Create Music Group
Los Angeles, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 90,000 - 120,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Written communication","Judgment","Organization","Leadership"]

Own contract-to-system royalty interpretation and the readiness gate for newly acquired catalogs, ensuring deal terms are translated into scalable royalty structures and workflows. Lead handoff standards, diligence support, onboarding methodology risk/reward, and portfolio KPIs. Manage and develop Label Administration and Integration teams while maintaining access/configuration governance across royalty systems and enforcing upstream intake requirements for accurate, efficient statement processing.

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Senior Manager, Royalty Administration & Onboarding

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Job Summary

Own contract-to-system royalty interpretation and the readiness gate for newly acquired catalogs, ensuring deal terms are translated into scalable royalty structures and workflows. Lead handoff standards, diligence support, onboarding methodology risk/reward, and portfolio KPIs. Manage and develop Label Administration and Integration teams while maintaining access/configuration governance across royalty systems and enforcing upstream intake requirements for accurate, efficient statement processing.
Location: Los Angeles, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Oversee company-wide contract-to-system royalty interpretation (rates, splits, territories, escalators, cross-collateralization, recoupment) including defensible workarounds.
  • •Own the Royalties Readiness Gate for incoming acquisitions, issuing go/no-go recommendations before statement processing.
  • •Lead onboarding handoff packet standards and ensure acquisitions transfer to operations only with finalized/assumed/open items clearly stated.
  • •Represent Royalties in M&A diligence (LOI through closing conditions) and conduct written risk/reward analysis for onboarding methodology.
  • •Manage, mentor, and develop Label Administration and Integration teams and own KPIs for integration and ongoing operations, including error rates and throughput.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 90,000 - 120,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in music business, accounting, finance, business administration, or related field (or equivalent; 5+ years royalty administration/operations experience in the music industry).
  • •4+ years of relevant royalty administration or royalty operations experience.
  • •2+ years of people management experience (ideally managing other managers) or readiness to step into that.
  • •Track record of catalog integration/onboarding and hands-on translation of contract terms (rates, splits, territories, escalators, cross-collateralization, recoupment) into system configuration.
  • •Ability to configure enterprise royalty/rights-management platforms and read acquisition agreements/schedules to identify required royalty system setup before configuration.
Experience:4+ yearsMusic industryRoyalty administrationRights managementM&ACatalog integration
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationWritten communicationJudgmentOrganizationLeadership
Tech Stack:SQLCloud data warehouseSigmaLookerTableauPower BIDDEXDSRLabel EngineCurveVistex Music MaestroRecord MaestroCounterpointSR1Rights-management platform

Company Brief

Create Music Group
Create Music Group is a music distribution, publishing, and rights management company offering distribution, monetization, and label services to artists and creators worldwide, specializing in YouTube content ID, digital distribution, and royalty collection.
Industry: Music Industry
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2015
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