Job Description
About The Role
beatBread is currently seeking an organized and efficient Publishing Royalty Manager to work with the Publishing, Operations and Finance teams in ensuring accurate and timely handling of publishing deal logistics.
Responsibilities include:
- Support publishing team in setup, tracking, reporting, monitoring and administration of new writer deals including navigating proprietary tools and industry sites like Chartmetric, Spotify for Artists, the MLC, etc.
- Provide support in the data gathering, data cleaning and due diligence process on new deals
- Data analysis on new deals, including risk assessment, identify gaps in data or other abnormalities
- Assist in the financial analysis of songwriter and performance royalties
- Performing financial reporting and analyses to assist in valuation and performance of deals
- Develop recommendations on offer structures
- Assisting with maintaining metadata and ensuring proper work registrations
- Maintain internal database of registered works
- Research and confirm publisher and songwriter information
- Generate and manage schedule of works included for contracting on new deals
- Collaborate with Artist Relations, Operations, Finance on incoming and active deals
- Assist with royalty reporting
- Make suggestions to improve internal programs and workflows
- Document & track best practices
- Participate in QA and UAT for internal system updates in development and provide feedback
- Provide other support as needed
Qualifications:
- 2-3 years in finance, accounting, data analysis or music/publishing royalty role
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications, particularly Excel
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Very strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with high volume of data & requests
- Good time management, prioritization, and multitasking abilities
- (see below)Strong organizational skills in a fast-paced environment. This includes having the ability to quickly adapt without letting existing tasks fall behind.
- To be able to thoughtfully speak up, advise and provide feedback on processes and systems
- To be highly self-directed, e.g., understand the need and the ability to complete work in a timely manner with varying degrees of direction.
- positive, proactive attitude with the ability to be a resourceful problem solver Start-up or Music industry experience a plus
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or similar field preferred
- Understanding of Music Publishing a plus
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Understanding of CRM systems and other relevant software applications preferred
Compensation and Company Benefits
The range for this position, experience and location dependent, will be between $50,000 to $70,000.
In addition to salary, full-time employees receive a generous benefits package including free health insurance coverage (employee, spouse & dependents), paid time off, 401k w/ 3% match, and equity in a venture backed and growing business.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will be reliable, hardworking, thoughtful, and enthusiastic. A "roll up the sleeves" mentality and attention to detail are particularly important for this role, as are the confidence and humility to ask for help when needed. While we work fast and deliver quality work, we also make certain personal time is protected and honored. Individuals with a respectful, slightly informal, collaborative style and who possess a growth mindset, toward their own development, towards their colleagues, and the Company at large, tend to do best in our culture.
Moderate flexibility in the work environment and schedules are common in our company, as quality work deliverables and end-product focus are the most important for our team.
About beatBread
The Concept
beatBread is a technology driven platform that enables funding for artists, labels, composers, and other key music industry participants. Creators always have the option to retain long-run ownership of their Music when they seek funding from beatBread, and receive transparent, flexible funding options. Instead of listening to each artist's Music and guessing whether they will grow or not, we feed streaming and fan-engagement data to an optimized machine-learning model to predict artist growth and revenue. We use these predictions to invest in artists, and, also, to empower music companies, institutions, and high net worth individuals to make their own investments in artists. Investors include leading venture capital firms, including Deciens Capital, Mucker Capital and Afore Capital, along with several progressive and innovative music companies.
Why Artists Love What We Do
Artist’s love beatBread because they can fund their careers without giving up ownership of their Music or the choice of their partners. beatBread's approach also enables us to fund creative people and organizations from those that are "chart toppers" to those who are too small or too "off center" for traditional labels to back.
Because we don't tell artists which marketing, distribution, or creative partners they need to work with, even large, chart-topping artists often find the options we provide more attractive than traditional funding options.
Company Growth
Since funding our first artist two years ago, we are now funding more than a deal per day and putting seven figures of advance dollars out in the market each month. Prominent artist service companies have chosen to integrate our platform directly into their products, with major streaming platforms and distributors showing keen interest in partnership. We have also recently announced a $100M artist funding facility, but will be engaging additional funding sources, including institutional investors and banks, in 2023.
Our Team and Culture
beatBread is a lucky combination of music business executives with decades of experience, startup folks who love music, data scientists who live to dig into billions of data points, and software developers born to build cool stuff. We are all unified by a mission to help more musicians stay independent and keep control of their work and their careers, and a vision to become the largest source of funding in the global music industry.
Culturally, we are curious, hardworking, and informal. As a matter of both pragmatism and personal values, we do our best to approach our work and our partners with more humility than many fast growing venture-backed companies, or many entertainment professionals who put image and status ahead of impact and value.
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