Senior Operations & Business Affairs Manager

iGroove AG; Freienbach; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility within EU TZ

Hybrid office in Pfäffikon SZ

Attractive salary package

Job summary

iGroove AG is seeking a Senior Operations & Business Affairs Manager to lead day-to-day distribution and Label OS operations. You will drive partner onboarding, DSP operations, and YouTube content monetization, while maintaining contracts and ensuring compliance.

The role evolves to build AI-enabled workflows and agent-driven improvements, with a flexible, hybrid work model in the EU timezone. You will own multiple streams, coordinate with external counsel, and push for operational

Qualifications

• 5+ years in music distribution, label services or DSP operations.
• Deep knowledge of the DSP landscape and Rights Management/Content ID at scale.
• Delivery & royalties experience with DDEX, royalty accounting and DSP reporting formats.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of distribution and Label OS business.
• Onboard partners and manage deals from terms to live with the Partner Operations Kit.
• Oversee DSP onboarding, feeds, territories and policy troubleshooting.
• Operate YouTube CMS/Content ID, monetization and audits.
• Handle contracts within a 48-hour SLA and coordinate with external counsel.
• Ensure compliance, content integrity and fraud detection with partners.
• Maintain SOPs and playbooks for AI-enabled workflows.
• Develop and deploy AI agents for recurring workflows.

Skills

Music distribution

DSP operations

Rights management

Contract drafting

Compliance programs

Stakeholder management

AI in daily work

Languages (English)

Tools

Google Workspace

Slack

Notion

Claude/ChatGPT

Job description

Senior Operations & Business Affairs Manager

Job summary

Full-time

Location:

Your Mission

• Operational engine: Together with the ops team you take over the day-to-day operations of our distribution and Label OS business, so that our COO can focus on strategic initiatives and agentic systems that will carry more and more of this work. Partner & DSP operations and Business & legal affairs make up the largest part of the role.
• Partner operations: You take partner deals from agreed terms to live — closing execution and onboarding with our Partner Operations Kit, which you improve with every partner — and coordinate catalog migrations, partner revenue reviews and settlements, and partner success management after the deal.
• DSP & delivery operations: You own DSP onboarding end-to-end (feeds, territories, DDEX delivery), day-to-day DSP & Delivery troubleshooting and the operational side of DSPs’ policies.
• YouTube & content monetization: You operate YouTube CMS / Content ID — claimed videos, art tracks, monetization & performance improvements, policies, Trust & Safety cases and audits.
• Business & legal affairs: You handle requests outside the SLA via our intake workflow, keep our T&Cs and compliance documentation current, follow through legal cases, takedowns, exclusivity issues and copyright claims, and run the weekly sync with our external counsel.
• Contract lifecycle: You run contracts within a 48-hour SLA — drafting, redlining, review cycles with external counsel, signatures — across distribution agreements, NDAs, and other agreements, licensee monitoring and catalog transaction documentation.
• Compliance & content integrity: You run Spotify PPP compliance, DSP audit responses, monthly penalty settlements and artificial-streaming and customer fraud cases, together with our content identification and fraud detection partners.
• Operational cadences: You own recurring checklists, operational reporting and escalations, and keep SOPs and playbooks current — written so they can be turned into AI agents.
• Working with AI agents: You review the output of our production agents (e.g. release QC, content identification, monitoring), flag quality issues, turn recurring corrections into better SOPs and agents, and take over automated workflows once they are handed over.
• Building agents: Over time, you build your own agents for recurring workflows in your area, within our agent quality standard.
• Service levels: You work to clear commitments — contracts within 48 hours, fraud cases triaged within 24 hours, YouTube Trust & Safety issues resolved within 48 hours, escalations resolved or routed within 4 hours, partner revenue reviews completed by month-end.
• Your first 6 months: After about three months you own all areas and the COO is down to a weekly check-in; contracts leave within the SLA without the COO in the loop, new partners go live through the Kit, and you are the day-to-day reviewer of at least one production agent.

Your Profile

• Experience: 5+ years in music distribution, label services or DSP operations.
• DSP & YouTube: Deep knowledge of the DSP landscape (Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon Music) plus Rights Management / Content ID (YouTube, TikTok, Meta) experience at scale.
• Delivery & royalties: Familiarity with DDEX (ERN), royalty accounting, revenue-share models, settlement processes and DSP reporting formats.
• Legal & contracts: Hands-on experience with distribution agreements, NDAs and licensing terms; confident redlining; ideally experience working with external counsel.
• Compliance: Experience with content integrity, artificial-streaming response and platform compliance programs.
• Organisation: You run 10+ parallel workstreams with clear ownership, deadlines and escalation paths.
• Stakeholder management: You deal confidently with partners, DSPs, external counsels and internal teams — often all on the same day.
• Tools: Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Customer Support Solutions and Claude/ChatGPT, or similar tools — and you learn new tools quickly.
• AI in daily work: You already use AI tools every day, on your own initiative — and you are senior enough to challenge their output instead of following it.
• Languages: Fluent English and business-level German.
• Way of working: Process-oriented, SLA-driven, documentation-first, a proactive problem solver, comfortable with ambiguity, and good at the Pareto cut.
• Nice to have: automation tools (n8n, Zapier) or first agents you have built yourself.
• Scope of the role: A senior execution role with real ownership and a real voice: you prepare and execute, while deal structuring and final legal decisions stay with the COO — and you are expected to challenge processes and standards that don’t work in practice and to bring improvement proposals; we improve them together. Over time the role grows into building and running AI agents for its own area. It is not a strategy, sales, product or accounting role, and it starts without direct reports — people leadership can grow over time.

Why Us?

• Ownership from day one: You join a small, experienced team with direct access to the COO and real responsibility for the operations of the business.
• Right timing: You join while a music distribution company turns its operations over to agentic AI — and you shape how that works in practice.
• Growth path: From running operations to building agents of your own, in a company where AI is part of every division.
• Flexible working model: attractive salary package, flexible hours and remote work within the EU timezone or hybrid at our office in Pfäffikon SZ.