Senior Product Manager, Rights & Royalties Modernization

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: • Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. • Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans. • Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises. Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s supporting our songwriters, ensuring we provide the right royalty data to global partners, or helping our creative teams use the latest AI tools to discover new talent—technology plays an invaluable role in our success. Product Managers help turn vision into reality. Check out first-hand accounts from the WMG engineering, product, design, infrastructure and data teams in our blog! WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your Role

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).

Who you are

• Product Experience: At least 7 years of product management or equivalent experience, including building technical products from idea to launch.

• Music, Rights or Royalties Expertise: You have hands-on experience with music rights and royalties (e.g. royalty accounting, licensing, rights management). We'll also consider strong candidates with deep experience in music, or in accounting and finance systems.

• Technical Fluency: Comfortable working with engineers on data models, APIs, and system integrations. You understand the software development lifecycle and can go deep on complex data problems.

• Navigating Ambiguity: Proven ability to simplify complex business rules and competing stakeholder needs into clear product decisions.

• Communication: Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to explain rights concepts to technical teams and technical tradeoffs to business partners and executives.

• Passion: A genuine love for music and a respect for the artists and songwriters behind it.

We'd love it if you also had

• 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)

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. And 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. Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound. Love this job and want to apply? Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG. Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too. WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Copyright © 2025 Warner Music Inc.