Senior Royalty Administration & Onboarding Lead

Create Music Group; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Create Music Group, based in Hollywood, CA, seeks a Senior Manager to lead royalty onboarding for newly acquired catalogs, translating complex deal terms into scalable royalty structures and workflows across systems.

You will collaborate with M&A, Finance, Legal and Royalties teams, shaping the onboarding strategy from diligence through day-one operations while guiding a growing team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years royalty ops experience in music considered in lieu of a degree.
• 4+ years royalty administration or operations experience.
• 2+ years people management, including management of other managers.
• Experience migrating catalogs onto a platform, not just administering existing ones.
• Ability to translate contract terms into system configuration and manage complex royalty models.
• Experience with enterprise royalty platforms and data tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own contract-to-system royalty interpretation: rates, splits, territories, escalators, recoupment, and workarounds.
• Own Royalties Readiness Gate for acquisitions; issue go/no-go with peer review.
• Own handoff packet standards for acquisitions; ensure clear final/assumed/open terms.
• Lead contractual royalty obligation analysis for acquisitions with onboarding recommendations.
• Represent Royalties in M&A diligence; own royalty section of diligence memo and closing conditions.
• Manage project portfolio: validation tooling, bulk ingestion of expenses, and automation templates.
• Define access governance across all royalty systems and enforce it.
• Set intake requirements across departments; ensure opportunity/amount/recipient are specified.
• Run pre-acquisition reviews to fix configuration issues before they escalate.
• Set KPIs for integration and operations; monitor throughput and escalation resolution.
• Mentor Label Administration and Integration teams; include two people managers.

Skills

People management

Contract terms interpretation

Cross-department collaboration

Communication

Project management

Catalog onboarding

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in music business, accounting, finance, or related field

Tools

Label Engine

Curve

Vistex Music Maestro

Record Maestro

Counterpoint

SR1

SQL (basic)

Job description

Create Music Group, based in Hollywood, CA, seeks a Senior Manager to lead royalty onboarding for newly acquired catalogs, translating complex deal terms into scalable royalty structures and workflows across systems.

You will collaborate with M&A, Finance, Legal and Royalties teams, shaping the onboarding strategy from diligence through day-one operations while guiding a growing team.