Sr. Content Acquisition Lead, Record Label Licensing

Job Description

Job summary

We're looking for an analytical Sr. Content Acquisition Lead to join our team in New York or LA, supporting team members across the US and EU. The position will lead and support global licensing negotiations and strategy, including driving complex models to forecast business metrics with Finance, evaluating the impacts of negotiated royalty structures and proactively performing analytic deep dives across a variety of key performance indicators.

The Sr. Content Acquisition Lead will have 7+ years of work experience in a content acquisition, business analyst, financial, or related analytics-focused role.
**Position can be based in our Amazon Music office in Brooklyn, NY or Culver City, CA.**

Key job responsibilities
• Develop and maintaining strong relationships with key record labels
• Negotiate license agreements to secure all necessary rights from record labels, and expand existing agreements as needed
• Collaborate with Finance to perform analysis to quantify the impact of royalty models, and other terms that are negotiated with record labels globally
• Collaborate with the legal team to review contractual terms and conditions relating to licensing agreements
• Partner with internal Finance/Content Analytics teams to help continuously improve the internal tools, processes and models that are used to evaluate our deal terms across service tiers and territories
• Audit business metrics, perform deep dive analysis on problems to understand root causes and making decisions based on data
• Monitor the competitive landscape to help inform Amazon Music's strategic priorities and expansion opportunities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 7+ years of experience in an account management, licensing or business development role
• Experience using Excel
• Analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions
• Ability to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Tableau and Excel
• BA/BS Required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent business judgment and demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
• Self-starter who is customer obsessed, detail-oriented, and an enthusiastic team player
• Nimbleness and comfort with ambiguity; ability to respond rapidly to evolving threats and opportunities
• Experience in writing detailed, and data-supported documents
• Understanding of digital music services and business models
• MBA or JD degree

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