Account Manager, Performance Rights Services - Sony Music Entertainment - New York, NY

The Orchard is seeking an entrepreneurial, organized, and analytical Account Manager to join its Performance Rights Services team. The Account Manager will be responsible for handling metadata delivery, dispute resolution, and royalty processing for a subset of the 35+ performance societies around the world from which The Orchard collects performance rights royalties.

Responsibilities:
Determine eligible metadata to deliver to collection societies, review for quality and correctness, and deliver metadata in appropriate file format required by society. Resolve disputes – or double-claims – and withdraw claims on recordings not represented and maintain claims on recordings owned by represented record labels. Dispute resolution requires extension and efficient communication with societies, conflicting claimants, and record labels. Receive incoming royalty statements from societies and match to correct labels. Build strong relationships with collection societies, communicating clearly and frequently to ensure recordings are getting registered and disputes resolved in a timely manner. Identify inefficiencies and improve upon current processes, both internally and with societies. Perform periodic royalty audits to ensure priority recordings are registered and earning royalties from societies. Other responsibilities may arise as business needs change.

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree required. Minimum 5 years work experience, preferably in the digital or music space. Experience working with large, messy data sets in a variety of formats. Direct experience working with music metadata a plus. Strong Excel skills a must. If DDEX and XML mean something to you, that’s a plus. Excellent communication skills, both outside the company and internally among cross-functional teams. Deadline-oriented and extremely organized. Comfortable with change, and not afraid to ask questions. Excited to interact with people at collection societies around the world. Spanish fluency a plus. Broad knowledge of music genres a plus.

About The Orchard(R)

The Orchard is an independent music and video distribution company that provides an innovative and comprehensive sales and marketing platform for content owners. With our industry‐leading technology and operations, we partner with companies of all sizes to make their music and videos available across hundreds of digital and mobile outlets around the world, and physical retailers too. We work with our clients to maximize their revenue, and provide them with the latest and greatest digital marketing tools and sophisticated sales analytics to help them run their businesses efficiently and effectively.

The Orchard was founded in 1997 in New York City to foster independence and creativity in the music industry. Our headquarters are in New York and London, with operations in more than 20 markets around the world, including France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, India, Australia and more. At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity, creativity and personal/business relationships. From monthly potlucks and game nights to company kickball teams and other staff perks, our employees like what they do and where they do it.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.