Royalty and Metadata Specialist

The Film Market; Franklin (TN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Film Market is seeking a Royalty and Metadata Specialist to administer catalog metadata and oversee royalty reporting. The role partners with creative staff, writers, artists, and the business affairs team to resolve data issues, improve data quality, and support timely payments.

Detail-oriented, independent, and cross-functional work style are essential, with strong proficiency in Excel and handling large data sets.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant administrative and/or royalty/metadata experience
• Prior music industry/music publishing experience strongly preferred
• Strong analytical skills with experience managing large data sets
• Advanced Excel skills and data reconciliation across sources with minimal oversight
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Organizational skills coordinating multiple assignments in deadline-driven environments
• Familiarity with online digital music tools and music file types
• Professional demeanor and self-motivated work ethic
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills

Responsibilities

• Own metadata and royalty processes and support timely payments
• Collaborate with creative staff, writers, and business affairs to resolve data issues
• Maintain data quality across multiple data sources

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Excel

Pivot tables

VLOOKUP

Job description

The Specialist, Royalty & Metadata plays a key role in administering catalog of songs and ensuring accurate royalty reporting, collections, and metadata support. This position owns critical metadata and royalty processes, partnering closely with creative staff, writers, artists, and the business affairs team to resolve issues, improve data quality, and support timely payments. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, comfortable working both independently and cross-functionally, and has strong proficiency in Excel and large data set

Royalty and Metadata Specialist

Age Range

Up to 2

Role Type

Full-time

Requirements

• 3–5 years of relevant administrative and/or royalty/metadata experience
• Prior music industry/music publishing experience strongly preferred
• Strong analytical skills and proven experience of managing lots of data and keen attention to detail
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups) and the ability to reconcile data across multiple sources with minimal oversight
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Demonstrated organization skills including experience coordinating multiple assignments and projects in a deadline-driven environment with effective resolution of conflicting priorities
• Knowledge of online digital music tools and familiarity with music file types
• Ability to exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others
• Experience in a role that required a strong, self-motivated work ethic
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills

Compensation: Competitive Salary/Benefits