Hiring: Publishing Onboarding Manager Company: Create Music Group Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:52:59 About the job Experience: •4+ years in music publishing administration, with direct experience taking catalogs from acquisition or agreement through registration and delivery •4+ years in music publishing administration including direct experience onboarding catalogs — taking works from acquisition or agreement through registration and delivery to societies and digital endpoints. Required Skills: •Owns the operational onboarding of assigned catalogs end to end, from deal handoff through absorption into steady-state administration and collection, executing the standard playbook at every stage. •Turns deal diligence materials into a transition plan with named owners and deadlines within five business days of handoff, and keeps partners, sellers, and internal teams on schedule against it. •Serves as the day-to-day operational contact for partners and sellers on assigned transitions, running onboarding calls, setting documentation expectations early, and escalating to the Director when partners are missing records or administrative know-how. •Executes catalog ingestion for assigned deals: validates schedules of works, identifiers (ISRC, IPI, ISWC), and ownership splits against deal schedules, and resolves metadata gaps and chain-of-title conflicts before works are registered and delivered. •Executes registration and works delivery for assigned catalogs to societies, sub-publishers, and digital endpoints including YouTube, including CWR submission, acknowledgement processing, and remediation of non-accepted works. •Owns the identification, transfer, and redirection of rights and royalty streams in assigned catalogs, including US and CA PROs (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN), mechanical and digital collections, and international collection. •Liaises with the M&A team on prior-administrator wind-down for assigned deals, which the M&A team leads, ensuring pipeline income is captured and revenue leakage prevented during handover. •Liaises with Royalties, Business Affairs, and/or Legal on third-party payment obligations for assigned catalogs, including payee changes and account setup, ensuring these are initiated and completed on time during each transition. Qualifications: •Hands-on catalog ingestion: validating works, writers, splits, and identifiers against deal schedules •Registration and delivery to PROs, mechanical societies, sub-publishers, and digital endpoints •Managing multiple concurrent transitions or catalog projects with external counterparties •Bachelor's degree, or equivalent professional experience, plus 4+ years in music publishing administration including direct experience onboarding catalogs — taking works from acquisition or agreement through registration and delivery to societies and digital endpoints. •CWR delivery and acknowledgement processing, including diagnosing and remediating non-accepted works •Solid functional working knowledge of identifier standards — ISWC, IPI, ISRC — and how they behave across systems •US and Canadian PRO workflows (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN) plus mechanical and digital collection paths •Advanced spreadsheet work on large catalog datasets; comfort with publishing admin systems •Direct partner- and seller-facing communication, including holding counterparties to documentation deadlines •International sub-publishing and foreign collection Compensation: •$65,000 - $75,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!