Global Music Publishing Payments & Royalty Operations

Adweek; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple’s Music Publishing Payment Operations team manages royalty reporting, accruals, and payments for rights holders worldwide. You’ll collaborate with legal, finance, product, and engineering to support Apple Music, TV+, Fitness+, and iTunes services, building scalable royalty operations that translate complex agreements into efficient processes.

The role emphasizes defining repeatable processes, cross-functional influence, and rigorous attention to detail, with opportunities to work

Qualifications

• Music publishing royalty payment experience.
• Experience defining repeatable processes that reduce human error.
• Cross-functional influence; translate requirements between teams.
• Excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail.
• Effective communication with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile invoices and communicate issues internally and externally.
• Build financial models, including cost estimates and forecasting.
• Define pricing models and work with Finance to accrue for music publishing costs.
• Create and manage large spreadsheets with many tabs and cross-dependencies.
• Reconcile account balances and provide statements to partners.
• Contribute to process improvements and product enhancements.
• Define regional or global solutions; build adoption through consensus.
• Provide operational input to Legal and Commercial teams.
• Onboard new partners and explain self-service tools to partners.
• Collaborate with IT to identify and resolve production issues.
• Define test cases and perform UAT.

Skills

Music publishing royalty payment

Process standardization

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in business, accounting, finance, or engineering

Job description

Apple’s Music Publishing Payment Operations team manages royalty reporting, accruals, and payments for rights holders worldwide. You’ll collaborate with legal, finance, product, and engineering to support Apple Music, TV+, Fitness+, and iTunes services, building scalable royalty operations that translate complex agreements into efficient processes.

The role emphasizes defining repeatable processes, cross-functional influence, and rigorous attention to detail, with opportunities to work