Product Manager (Rights Squad)

Associate Product Manager

Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company headquartered in downtown Tampa, FL and with offices in Brooklyn, Nashville, Denver, and Bogota, Colombia. We focus on distributing, promoting, and developing great independent music from artists, record labels, and many more. Not only do we want to work with some great and prolific creators, we want to also work with creative, passionate, positive, and forward thinking individuals. Maybe this is you? If so, then below you will find an opportunity to join Symphonic. As a company, we want to have an environment that is inclusive, diverse, and accepting so that everyone, regardless of their background, race, or sexual orientation, has a chance to do great things in the industries of music, tech, and marketing. The Associate Product Manager will work full time and will come with some really cool perks as well as ensuring that as an individual you have the proper work/life balance.

Salaray Range $95,000.00 to $115,000.00 yearly

In a nutshell //We are looking for a talented Product Manager for our Rights Squad who is passionate about building products to delight and empower clients. This is a highly visible role that interacts with the senior leaders and directly with clients. The position reports to the Director of Product Management.

What you can expect to do //

• Become the expert on Symphonic’s content and catalog management systems, including ingestion, publishing, licensing, rights, and metadata workflows for assets like sound recordings, music videos, and compositions.
• Maintain a steady cadence of work for developers and data engineers
• Document requirements with user stories, wireframes, mockups, detailed acceptance criteria, and other artifacts as necessary
• Work closely with operations teams and other stakeholders to understand processes and needs that can be met with technical development
• Interview end users on a regular basis
• Groom product backlogs on a daily basis and eliminate any blockers
• Envision new features that differentiate Symphonic and solve company and customer problems
• Participate in a fast, continuous delivery development process, including leading daily standups
• Work with QA to ensure that new features meet acceptance criteria
• Own feature launches and monitor adoption
• Formulate, test, and refine assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
• Collaborate with stakeholders to test and deliver data-driven features that add value
• Collaborate with product marketing on go-to-market plans

What you will need to have //

• 5 years of experience working in a similar role
• Familiarity with content management systems, digital asset management, or rights management platforms.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills to both explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and provide context to engineers and designers
• Ability to prioritize work in a fluid decision-making environment
• Good instincts for what is easy or hard to implement with a given tech stack
• Willingness to use the best ideas, not just your own ideas
• Focus on user experience
• Experience using ticket management tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Experience taking features from ideas through implementation and launch
• Ability to write basic SQL queries to perform analysis

What will set you apart //

• 5+ years of experience with publishing and rights management
• Previous roles in product or project management for web or mobile applications
• Experience working in the music industry, particularly with publishing and/or UGC data
• YouTube CMS certified
• Experience with digital distribution platforms, publishing administration, or rights management organizations (PROs, CMOs, etc.)
• Ability to explain the music rights management landscape with ease
• Understanding of feature flags and continuous deployment
• Experience managing stakeholder groups
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a bias toward action
• And an interest in leveraging technology (AI, ML, automation) to solve catalog and rights challenges

Additional Insights:

• This is a full time remote position
• Candidates must be currently residing in one of the following states:
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Tennessee
  • Florida
  • New York

About Symphonic Distribution

Symphonic Distribution enables content creators to fully maximize their music’s revenue and grow their global audience. The company focuses on working with: record labels, artists, managers, producers, social media influencers, and even distributors just like us to get their messages seen and heard. While our core business is to distribute music digitally and physically for the many talented creators that we have the honor of working with, we focus on a number of services, such as: Physical Distribution, User Generated Content Monetization on YouTube, Tik Tok, Triller, Instagram, Release Promotion such as Playlist pitching, marketing diagnostics, strategy and a number of other very important services to ensure that creators are maximizing and collecting on as many royalties as possible. Symphonic also showcases one of the largest partnership networks available, partnering with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and many other services where music can be consumed on. Check out more about us on our website at www.symdistro.com