Firebird Music

Data Engineer

• Act as the bridge between technical implementation and business reality. You’ll work directly with stakeholders across Finance, Label Services, Marketing, Operations, and Executive Leadership to determine how the business should be represented in data. This includes driving decisions around metric definitions, source-of-truth ownership, reconciliation rules, and exception handling when systems disagree.
• Design the data warehouse: schemas, transformation layer, semantic conventions, access patterns. You'll make the structural decisions that shape how every downstream team queries the business.
• Lead the integration work across systems: entity resolution, aggregation, and reconciliation. Artists, songs, venues, and partners don't share canonical IDs between FUGA, Luminate, Chartmetric, Salesforce, and Airtable; you'll design how they will. Streams, royalties, and revenue numbers reported by different systems don't always agree; you'll set the rules for what's authoritative and how discrepancies get surfaced. We also need to integrate Salesforce and RAMP (cost data).
• Lead a small delivery team (data engineers and application contractors) responsible for building the warehouse, transformation layer, reconciliation pipelines, and analytics experiences. You are not expected to be the primary front-end developer, but you should be comfortable defining the data contracts and architectural patterns those applications rely on.
• Choose and stand up the transformation tooling (dbt, SQLMesh, Dataform, or other). Argue the trade-offs honestly; we don't have a religious preference yet.
• Set the standards for testability, observability, and data quality monitoring across the warehouse.

Data Architect – Contractor

Vice President

• Lead end-to-end acquisition processes for music-related IP assets, from identification and initial valuation through due diligence, deal structuring, and close
• Represent Firebird in the marketplace as a trusted and creative capital partner to rightsholders and their advisors
• Develop investment theses and return frameworks for prospective acquisitions along with establishing systems and workflow processes across the full music rights acquisition process
• Lead investment underwriting including building and maintaining financial models to assess catalog value and returns
• Collaborate with our Label Services and Data + Insights teams to analyze and execute active management initiatives
• Prepare investment memos and materials that clearly communicate deal rationale, risk, and upside; and present materials to senior management (Investment Committee, Board)
• Partner with Business Affairs and external legal teams to structure and negotiate deal terms
• Support post-acquisition integration, working with Finance, Royalties, and Label Services to ensure assets are effectively onboarded and performing to thesis
• Conduct market research on catalog sales activity, buyer behavior, and trends to inform Firebird's acquisition strategy and pricing thesis
• Stay current on music industry trends including regulatory changes, emerging rights categories, streaming economics, and M&A activity across the music rights landscape

VP, Music Acquisitions

• Creatively pitch frontline and catalog repertoire, securing sync placements across film, television, advertising, sports, video games, and beyond
• Lead negotiations for licensing clearances
• Collaborate with Firebird's legal and finance departments to execute paperwork and invoicing
• Establish a comprehensive sync database, aggregating recorded music, publishing, and associated rights and data from all of Firebird's label and publisher partners and applicable management clients
• Partner with creative teams across our recorded music partners — and their internal or third-party sync solutions — to identify and develop opportunities
• Proactively cultivate new business relationships and partnerships
• Experience working in a team using agile software development methodology. Coordinate product releases, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned, timelines are adhered to, and that pre- and post-launch processes are executed smoothly. Develop go-to-market operational plans in collaboration with product management, ensuring readiness across all functions. Monitor product releases and identify any potential issues, coordinating troubleshooting and communication efforts.
• Serve as a liaison between product management, engineering, and other areas to facilitate seamless communication and project execution. Support product teams with resource allocation, project scheduling, and coordination of key deliverables. Collaborate with product management to gather, prioritize, and share customer feedback.
• Implement and maintain tools and systems that enhance product operations, including project management software, data platforms, and feedback management tools. Maintain up-to-date documentation of product processes, requirements, workflows, and best practices for reference and training purposes.

Data Architect – Contractor

VP, Music Acquisitions

VP, Sync Licensing