Senior Product Manager, Royalties- TIDAL

Company Description

TIDAL is a global music and entertainment streaming platform committed to creating a deeper connection between artists and fans through its library of more than 80 million songs, over 350,000 high quality videos, and available in over 60 countries. In addition, TIDAL offers its subscribers exclusive access to high-profile music and music videos, original content series, podcasts, documentaries, livestream concerts, tickets, merchandise and live experiences. Together, TIDAL and Block will be music-obsessed and artist-focused while we explore new artist tools, listener experiences, and access to financial systems that help artists be more successful.

Job Description

At TIDAL, we’re focused on economic empowerment for artists, and a foundational element is how artists are paid. We are looking for a seasoned and analytical product manager to lead product development for TIDAL’s Royalties teams. In this role, you’ll be defining product strategy, aligning data structures and leading development for payment and reporting of royalties to rights holders. You will work closely with engineering, business affairs & licensing, analytics, artist product, and finance functions to build these products and processes. You will be expected to deeply understand and manage requirements, manage and influence stakeholders, and to effectively prioritize opportunities and resources. 

As an early member of this Royalties Product team, you will help define and scale the function, including defining best practices and contributing to TIDAL’s product culture. This role reports to the Royalties lead

This role is remote-friendly (U.S. only).

You Will:

Define product strategy: 

• Identify and align requirements for making Royalties data an asset to our Artists

• Use artist and fan data insights to inform features and development related to streaming and other payouts

• Reflect an understanding and empathy for artists as well as other key players in the music creation and distribution ecosystem, with a passion for improving their economic outcomes

• Manage a broad set of internal stakeholders to ensure we are building the right products, tracking the right success metrics, and communicating developments

Drive execution: 

• Define, document, and communicate objectives, product requirements, and constraints for product initiatives and releases

• Partner with engineering, business analytics & licensing, finance functions and analytics to develop and communicate a clear roadmap while executing on initiatives from ideation through delivery 

• Collaborate with other PMs and internal functions for sequencing and dependency management 

• Work cross-functionally with our business affairs, label & artist relations, and customer success, teams to identify pain points and determine high-impact opportunities to drive third party relationships

Set up for success: 

• Engage the right stakeholders and senior company leaders to align resources and prioritization

Qualifications

You Have:

• 5+ years of product management experience or related/equivalent experience with a minimum of 2-3 years of dedicated product management experience required
• Experience shipping and iterating on growing products that required partnering across multiple teams
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements, and vice versa
• Ability to operate at both a strategic and technical level
• Obsessive about design and user experience, 
• Product vision founded in customer discovery and backed by an analytical and metrics-driven approach using data and experimentation to guide decisions and strategy

Even better:

• Comfort with SQL and data analysis is strongly preferred
• Experience in royalties, music, entertainment, or licensing
• Familiarity with developments in the creator economy

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $167,300 - USD $204,500
Zone B: USD $158,900 - USD $194,300
Zone C: USD $150,600 - USD $184,000
Zone D: USD $142,200 - USD $173,800

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If