Director, Distribution; Music Nation

BMI is a mission-driven organization at the forefront of music rights and creator advocacy. Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, BMI is a global leader in music rights management. Currently representing the public performance rights in over 25 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million artists. BMI negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are publicly performed.

Great music deserves accurate, trusted distribution.

As Director, Distribution – Music Nation, you’ll lead the royalty distribution operations supporting Music Nation, overseeing matching and identification, funds management, quarterly distributions, quality assurance, payment methodologies and market share calculations. You’ll play a key role in helping BMI deliver Rights Administration and Distribution services for an international collective management organization across both mechanical and performing rights.

This role sits at the intersection of royalty operations, repertoire integrity, data quality, technology and stakeholder partnership. You’ll ensure distribution processes are accurate, scalable and aligned with Music Nation’s licensing strategy while working across BMI to strengthen controls, improve data quality, manage operational risk and enhance the systems and processes that support distribution.

You’ll also help build BMI’s broader multi-right and multi-territory administration capabilities, bringing together operational leadership, analytical thinking, industry expertise and continuous improvement to support both today’s distribution cycles and future growth.

Direct, plan, and oversee all royalty distribution activities supporting Music Nation, including matching and identification, funds management, quarterly distributions, and quality assurance. Responsible for establishing and maintaining royalty payment methodologies, market share calculations, and royalty distributions.

This position serves as a key operational leader supporting BMI’s delivery of Rights Administration and Distribution services to Music Nation and helps establish the organization’s capability to manage mechanical and performing rights on behalf of an international collective management organization. The role ensures repertoire integrity across publisher, writer, society, and Music Nation data sources and supports the successful execution of Music Nation’s licensing and distribution strategy.

• Lead all royalty distribution activities supporting Music Nation, including matching and identification, funds management, methodology and market share management, and quarterly distribution processing.
• Serve as Music Nation’s subject matter expert for royalty distribution standards and industry data exchange initiatives, representing the organization in industry forums and discussions with societies and other stakeholders to help support evolving rights administration and distribution needs.
• Own and oversee quality assurance strategies that support Music Nation’s quarterly distribution cycles, with particular focus on radio, live concert, and general licensing markets.
• Ensure distribution data integrity through production cycle monitoring, reconciliation testing, variance analysis, and issue resolution across internal systems and third-party data sources.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate operational risk related to distribution processes, vendor inputs, and reporting outputs.
• Monitor changes to Music Nation…