Business Operations Manager

Warner Music Inc.

Toronto, Ontario remote Until 9/15/2026 4+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted July 17, 2026 Last posted July 17, 2026

Job description

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality. Check out first-hand accounts from the WMG engineering, product, design, infrastructure and data teams in our blog!

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

A little bit about our team:

The Global Royalty Department is a Technology Operations and transformation department with the objective to keep the Warner Music Group’s royalty functions – artist and copyright – up to date on technology used to support the Business operations.

Your role:

The Business Operations Manager is responsible for the Program/Project Management of the EROS Copyright royalty system migration projects, as well as the day-to-day operational support for the Artist Royalties and Copyright ecosystem. These are business areas that have an important impact on Artists and Publishers.

Here you’ll get to:

Project Management of the EROS (Artist Royalties and Copyright) new version migration projects, including project management, conduct test phases (Unit Testing, System Integration Testing and UAT) and Deployment.

Month-end Support: This includes monitoring jobs and resolving issues related to jobs (both Artist Royalties and Copyright). This is critical for the Financial monthly close.

You will assist the Business with EROS Copyright configuration for new label acquisitions.

Execute projects related to new label acquisitions (sales migration, sales testing and implementation in Production which includes assisting with EROS Copyright configuration.

Manage Copyright application projects like new versions implementation. This includes project management, creation of test cases, execution of tests, conducting UAT, User’s training and deployment in Production.

Execute of the EROS Copyright Change Management process.

Support Copyright Audits (data extract and data reconciliation).

About you:

4+ years proven music industry and royalty functional experience, both artist and copyright.
Proven experience working with complex music and royalty data migrations.
Large systems development and implementation project management experience
Strong analytical skills and ability to validate complex analysis and data reconciliations.
Demonstrated leadership in achieving shared objectives within a matrix organization, participation in cross-divisional projects, and building effective cross-functional teams.
Ability to achieve results through influence over external and internal staff.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of interfacing effectively with WMG royalty management and staff.
Team player who can cooperate/collaborate with business unit and Technology Teams.
You have experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Persuasive, encouraging, diplomatic, and attentive to detail.
Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources.
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Advanced knowledge of SQL, MS Office and Google Tools (Docs and Sheets).

We’d love it if you also had:

Certified PMP (Project Management Professional).

International development and system implementation experience .

Advanced knowledge of Jira

Experience managing 3rd party contractors and offshore development resources

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Accounting, or related field; or 8+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination and experience.

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Compensation (from employer):
78400–110000 CAD per year

About this role

Summary

Manage royalty system projects, support daily operations, and optimize music royalty data workflows.

Job title

Business Operations Manager

Experience level

4+ years

Minimum experience

4+ years exp

Industry

music

Location requirements

Toronto, Ontario; remote work not specified

Salary

C$78k–C$110k

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Skills & keywords

Required skills

music industry experienceroyalty data analysisproject managementSQLMS Office

Preferred skills

PMPJirasystem implementationcontract managementoffshore management

Specializations

royalty systemssystem migrationproject managementdata analysismusic industry

Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Ontario, Canada

Remote State

Toronto, ON, Canada

On-site City