Executive Director, Matching Services & Data Innovation

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI); Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) seeks an Executive Director, Matching Services to lead strategy, operations, and continuous improvement of BMI’s matching services.

You will ensure accurate identification and matching of musical works and usage data for BMI clients, driving improvements in match rates, efficiency, data integrity, and royalty outcomes through automation and analytics. You will build partnerships across internal teams and with clients to advance BMI’s matching capabilities, define

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Music Business, Operations Management, or related field required.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy, operating model, goals, KPIs, and service expectations for Matching Services across BMI and external client work.
• Prioritize work using business value, distribution impact, client commitments, strategic importance, operational risk, data readiness, deadlines, and cost-to-serve.
• Lead automated and manual matching of all music usage, including exception management and unresolved-performance reduction.
• Monitor productivity, accuracy, service levels, cycle time, cost per match, operational risk, and source-level trends, taking corrective action and presenting recommendations to leadership.
• Advance machine learning, semantic matching, confidence scoring, candidate ranking, automation, and human-review controls while preserving precision, auditability, and feedback loops.
• Oversee claiming, rights identification, usage matching, invoicing, and reconciliation against consumption files to ensure accurate attribution, monetization, revenue collection, and distribution.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Operations management

Data analytics

Machine learning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

BI tools

Data analytics platforms

Job description

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) seeks an Executive Director, Matching Services to lead strategy, operations, and continuous improvement of BMI’s matching services.

You will ensure accurate identification and matching of musical works and usage data for BMI clients, driving improvements in match rates, efficiency, data integrity, and royalty outcomes through automation and analytics. You will build partnerships across internal teams and with clients to advance BMI’s matching capabilities, define