Licensing Operations Manager

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GRAI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2025

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C

GRAI is a consumer-focused music platform experimenting with interactive listening experiences — described on its site as "building new ways to listen and respond through music. " The website emphasizes community and social engagement (links to TikTok, Discord, LinkedIn), appears early-stage with sections like "Our Manifesto" and "Jobs / Coming Soon," and uses cookies for personalization and advertising. Overall GRAI presents as a music/ media startup focused on novel, social listening interactions and audience response.

📋 Description

• Own the operational side of music licensing across recorded music and publishing, ensuring deals move smoothly from negotiation through execution and ongoing administration. • Develop and execute our licensing strategy, identifying the licenses we need and driving them to completion with labels, publishers, and other rights holders. • Manage the end-to-end contract lifecycle — from negotiation support and execution to renewals, obligation tracking, and payments. • Partner with other teams to implement licensing deals and ensure they're reflected accurately across internal systems. • Oversee royalty administration, reporting, and payment schedules, ensuring everything is executed accurately and on time. • Research rights ownership, licensing questions, and commercial terms to support internal teams and external partners. • Build scalable licensing operations by improving processes, implementing automation, and leveraging AI where it creates value. • Own the health of our licensing portfolio, proactively identifying risks before they become issues.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in music licensing, Business Affairs, publishing administration, rights management, or royalty operations. • Strong understanding of music copyright, licensing, and royalty administration across both recorded music and publishing. • Experience reviewing and managing commercial music agreements. • Experience working in a fast-growing startup or scale-up where you've built processes, moved quickly, and owned outcomes. • Exceptional organizational skills, commercial judgment, and a bias toward execution. • Comfort working cross-functionally with legal, finance, product, and commercial teams. • Experience using AI and modern workflow tools to improve operational efficiency. • Nice to have: experience at a music tech company, DSP, publisher, record label, distributor, or licensing platform. • Knowledge of copyright registration and rights databases (ISRC, ISWC, IPI/CAE, DDEX, CWR). • Experience with rights metadata management and catalog operations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation + equity • Flexibility in how you work