VP, Digital Rights & Collections

VP of Digital Rights & Collections 

Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company headquartered in downtown Tampa, FL, with offices in Brooklyn, Nashville, and Bogota, Colombia. We focus on distributing, promoting, and developing great independent music from artists, record labels, and many more.  Not only do we want to work with some great and prolific creators, but we also want to work with creative, passionate, positive, and forward-thinking individuals. Maybe this is you? If so, then below you will find an opportunity to join Symphonic. As a company, we want to have an inclusive, diverse, and accepting environment so that everyone, regardless of their background, race, or sexual orientation, has a chance to do great things in the industries of music, tech, and marketing. We’re a fast-growing company that encourages creative freedom, experimentation, and continuous learning. This is a great opportunity to grow your skills and have a real impact in the music industry.

The Role: VP of Digital Rights & Collections 

As a VP of Digital Rights & Collections at Symphonic Distribution, You will spearhead initiatives to maximize performance revenue domestically and globally while ensuring operational excellence, audit readiness, and future scalability.  This is a key role at the intersection of rights management, royalties, publishing, and strategic technology adoption (including AI initiatives).

What will you do //

Digital Performance Collection (SoundExchange & U.S. Performance Rights)

• Lead all aspects of SoundExchange management including registrations, catalog integrity, data cleanup, account optimization, and auditing.


• Leverage programs such as TLC audits and historical claims recovery to boost revenue collection.


• Identify inefficiencies in current SoundExchange processes and implement automation or improved workflows.


• Explore partnerships or internal solutions to enhance SoundExchange performance without losing monthly reporting transparency.

International Neighboring Rights Strategy

• Develop and execute a roadmap to expand international neighboring rights collection, addressing limitations of the current SoundExchange international mandate.


• Evaluate and potentially build direct partnerships with international CMOs (e.g. PPL, GVL, SENA, etc.).


• Conduct diligence on third-party administrators—balancing performance uplift against loss of direct reporting/control.


• Launch and maintain scalable, transparent, and efficient processes for tracking, claiming, and collecting Neighboring Rights revenue globally.

Publishing Administration Support

• Assist the publishing team with metadata management, works registration, income tracking, and royalty processing.


• Support audits and optimize integrations with publishing collection societies (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, HFA, MLC, etc.).


• Act as a strategic partner to ensure publishing operations scale with our client base.

Strategic Technology & AI Initiatives

• Partner with leadership and product/tech teams on AI-driven solutions for metadata matching, rights claims, catalog ingestion, and audit flagging.


• Identify use cases and help train AI models using internal datasets (SoundExchange, PROs, publishing metadata).


• Stay current on AI and rights tech trends to advise on build vs. buy decisions.
  
  

What you need to have //

• 5–10+ years in performance rights management, digital collections, or neighboring rights—preferably in a hybrid label/distributor/administrator role.


• Deep understanding of SoundExchange, including TLC programs and administrative nuances.


• Experience launching or working with international Neighboring Rights collection mandates.


• Knowledge of publishing administration, including society rules and royalty flows.


• Familiarity with AI tools, automation workflows, or analytics in the context of music rights and royalties.


• Proven track record of building scalable rights administration processes.


• Strong negotiation and vendor evaluation skills (for evaluating admins/tech partners).

What would set you apart //

• Strategic thinker with strong operational execution.


• Highly organized and analytical, with great attention to detail.


• Collaborative communicator—able to work cross-functionally with legal, publishing, data, and product teams.


• Passionate about empowering creators and optimizing the music rights ecosystem.

What Success Looks Like

• Year-over-year increase in performance rights revenue through smarter collection and cleanup.


• Established roadmap and rollout of a global neighboring rights network with transparent ROI.


• More streamlined and automated SoundExchange operations with minimal manual intervention.


• Trusted publishing admin contributor who enhances team efficiency and accuracy.


• Initiation of one or more AI-powered projects improving catalog management or audit identification.

Additional Insights 

• Position will work remotely in Virginia


• This position will report to the Chief Creative Officer


• This position will often collaborate with other stakeholders, including the Chief Executive Officer and VP of Product
  

About Symphonic Distribution

Symphonic Distribution enables content creators to fully maximize their music’s revenue and grow their global audience. The company focuses on working with: record labels, artists, managers, producers, social media influencers, and even distributors just like us to get their messages seen and heard. While our core business is to distribute music digitally and physically for the many talented creators that we have the honor of working with, we focus on a number of services, such as: Physical Distribution, User Generated Content Monetization on YouTube, Tik Tok, Triller, Instagram, Release Promotion such as Playlist pitching, marketing diagnostics, strategy and a number of other very important services to ensure that creators are maximizing and collecting on as many royalties as possible. Symphonic also showcases one of the largest partnership networks available, partnering with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and many other services where music can be consumed on. Check out more about us on our website at www.symdistro.com