Infringement Manager
$110,000–$120,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Manage a team of Infringement Specialists, providing daily support, coaching, and regular performance feedback to promote growth, accountability, and quality work. Oversee queue activity across multiple infringement categories, ensuring timely, accurate, and consistent resolution of copyright, trademark, and impersonation claims. Act as the operational lead for the Infringement team, including team check-ins, claim reviews, and handling urgent or escalated issues. Serve as a liaison to the Legal team, escalating high-risk or delicate matters and ensuring claim decisions remain aligned with legal guidance and platform policy. Partner with the Quality Control team to design, evaluate, and improve prevention tools that stop infringement before claims are filed. Work with Creator Services to address artist concerns and manage high-sensitivity cases, including those involving priority artists. Coordinate with internal partners such as Legal, Finance, Engineering, Fraud, Quality Control, and Support to ensure operational alignment and support cross-functional workflows. Review complex or high-impact cases, providing case-level insights and quality assurance to maintain enforcement consistency and integrity. Own team performance metrics and reporting, using data to identify trends, improve operational performance, establish KPIs, and inform team priorities. Contribute to the development and refinement of workflows, documentation, and decision-making tools in collaboration with Legal Operations. Lead onboarding, training, and ongoing development of team members, reinforcing quality standards, best practices, and continuous learning. Lead or support initiatives aimed at improving operational efficiency, reducing error rates, and scaling high-quality enforcement practices. Stay informed on changes in copyright and platform enforcement trends, sharing relevant updates with the team and applying learnings to improve outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in copyright enforcement, digital rights management, trust & safety, legal operations, content moderation, or a closely related field, including significant experience within the music, digital media, or online platform industry
- 3+ years of people management experience, including coaching, performance management, employee development, and leading high-performing operational teams
- Strong working knowledge of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright and trademark enforcement, takedown procedures, and digital rights management—particularly within the music, content distribution, or online platform space
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and critical-thinking skills with a high level of attention to detail
- Proven ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion, maintaining a calm, solutions-oriented approach in high-pressure situations
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear documentation and work effectively across departments
- Familiarity with Airtable, Google Workspace, Claude Code, Zendesk, Confluence and other operational or legal tools used for tracking, analysis, and documentation
- A collaborative, proactive mindset with a passion for protecting creators and enforcing policy with fairness, clarity, and consistency
- Demonstrated success improving operational processes through data-driven decision making, workflow optimization, and cross-functional collaboration
Desired Qualifications
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