Music Rights Operations, Coordinator

Title: Music Rights Operations, Coordinator - Opposition

• Department: RHEI (Opposition)
  Location of posting: Brazil / LATAM area (Open to other locations) 

• Employment Type: Full-Time (Consultant) 

• Minimum Experience: Entry to Mid-Level

RHEI is a creator economy company advancing the industry by helping artists, creators, labels, and media companies find success through digital content. We provide end-to-end solutions to help artists grow their audiences and revenue, while helping labels connect to hard-to-reach digital fans. Our proprietary technologies leverage generative AI, machine learning, digital signal processing and big data to power our platform and ecosystem, and we are the largest multi-vertical video publisher in the world, reaching tens of billions of monthly views and over 600 million monthly uniques.

RHEI also works with music rights holders to diversify their revenue through a suite of tailored rights & content management solutions, and provides end-to-end distribution for artists and labels of every genre. A strong and customizable value offering and flexible deals has allowed RHEI to onboard some of the most prevalent music catalog holders today. 

We are currently looking for a self-driven Rights Management Coordinator who will be responsible for driving our music rights and claiming efforts to protect our label and artist’s IP. RHEI’s music division, Opposition, works with a wide range of artists including 21 Savage and Zaytoven to manage their assets on YouTube and other streaming platforms. If you are data driven and have a passion for music, then this is the role for you!

Music Rights Operations, Coordinator - Key Responsibilities:

• Daily manual claiming of RHEI’s clients’ intellectual property on YT and other platforms as needed.

• Review content on online video platforms such as YouTube to discover and claim user-generated content containing RHEI’s CA & music partners’ intellectual properties and apply the correct claiming assets and monetization policies to content on YouTube.

• Review potential issues for content claims and YouTube Content ID references to ensure they abide by all internal and external claiming guidelines and YouTube policies.

• Respond quickly and effectively to claiming requests made by our partners and clients.

• Review and report claiming opportunities for CA & Music sales teams. Analyze specific channel’s missed or infringed upon content for approvals. 

• Maintaining the Rights Management Portal and reviewing that all partner applications/assets have proper metadata including sales rep for commission purposes.

• Assist the Music Data Lead in maintaining data integrity by performing regular data hygiene tasks, including cleaning and standardizing datasets in Excel/Google Sheets, maintaining partner content, assets, metadata, and RHEI’s records.

• Support data import processes by formatting and validating CSV/XLSX files before ingestion into internal systems.

• Utilize spreadsheet formulas (e.g., VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, IF statements) to cross-reference claiming data against internal records and identify discrepancies for the Data Lead.

• Conduct basic Quality Assurance (QA) on automated reports and dashboards to verify data accuracy against source files, R&D requests and assist in reporting claimed impressions and video to management.

• Manage the Opposition’s Distribution & Label catalogue. Coordinate with marketing team and talent managers to ensure that releases are ingested accordingly for all Digital Streaming Platforms.

• Directly ingest Distribution & Label releases to YouTube Content ID and Art Tracks.

• Maintaining Distribution & Label release catalogue to ensure that sound recording and publishing splits are updated.

• Coordinate with 3rd party distribution platforms to establish release date changes and any last-minute requests that may occur.

• Assist with the Head of Music with any operational needs when necessary.

Key Requirements:

• Understanding of musical composition and of the elements that make up a full recorded song or music video.

• Understanding of copyrights and how they relate to music and digital video.

• Intermediate proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets, specifically with data manipulation formulas (VLOOKUP, IMPORTRANGE, Pivot Tables) and conditional formatting.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to spot data inconsistencies and format errors in medium to large datasets.

• Strong passion for music, technology, and digital media.

• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.

• Post-secondary education or certification in the music or analytics fields is considered an asset.

• Basic understanding of data visualization (creating simple charts/graphs) to assist in reporting is a plus.

• Other duties, as assigned by management, from time to time.