SoundCloud empowers artists & fans to connect & share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build & grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, & resources. With over 375 million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

Creators are at the core of everything we do at SoundCloud & we want to make sure their rights are respected & their content protected.

Are you passionate about creators & intellectual property in the digital age? We are looking for someone who wants to gain in-depth knowledge of digital rights enforcement & operations to join us as a Copyright Operations Specialist within the Business & Legal Affairs organization out of our Berlin or London offices. You will be working with the SoundCloud community to educate people on how copyright law applies to the platform, as well as assisting rights holders & creators with protecting their content.

Primary Responsibilities

• Communicate with creators & rightsholders about their copyright-related issues.
• Process reports of alleged infringement & resolve disputes related to blocked tracks.
• Improve operational processes for the team.
• Assist in or manage your own projects.
• Partner with business stakeholders to help ensure new products are compliant with copyright law & internal processes.
• Maintain the integrity of copyrighted content on the platform.
• Communicate emerging copyright issues to business stakeholders.
• Act as an internal advocate for creators & rightsholders.

Qualifications

• Ideally, youve had experience of working within copyright operations, anti-piracy, music rights operations or a similar field & are rewarded by helping rightsholders & creators protect their content online.
• You are calm under pressure & diligent in your approach to solving problems & following operational processes.
• You have outstanding written & verbal communication skills in native-level English.
• You understand the importance of balancing all sides of an argument, & have the confidence & ability to consistently decide upon a path for resolving issues, especially when dealing with ambiguous or sensitive topics.
• You are a team player & have a willingness to work collaboratively to find solutions to complex issues, but are capable of working independently.
• You have a bachelors degree or equivalent & are OK with working the odd weekend or evening.

If youre excited about working with us to support creators & rights holders in the SoundCloud community, wed love to hear from you.