VP, Music Business & Legal Affairs

Job Title:  VP, Music Business & Legal Affairs

Employer: GoDigital Music ( https://godigital.music/)

Classification: Contractor

Reports to: Chief Operation Officer 

Location: Remote / United States 

About the Company: GoDigital Music is a music company that works across distribution, marketing, record label services, publishing, rights management, and owned catalogs. We release and market music for artists and labels around the world, manage and monetize rights across digital platforms, and acquire and operate music catalogs as long‑term investments. Our work involves tracking performance across streaming, social, and revenue channels, using data to understand how music is consumed and how releases and catalogs perform over time. Our team supports both active releases and an expanding portfolio of owned catalogs by turning performance data into clear insights that inform planning, marketing, and long‑term strategy.

About the Role:

GoDigital Music is seeking a Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs to serve as the company's primary in-house legal resource, operating with full strategic autonomy while partnering with outside counsel when needed. This is a high-impact, senior leadership role at the intersection of music law, deal structuring, and financial strategy, requiring someone who can advise executive leadership, lead complex transactions from inception to close, and build scalable legal frameworks for a growing, dynamic business.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in music distribution, catalog acquisitions, and rights-based transactions, combined with a sophisticated understanding of deal economics and financial structures relevant to the music industry.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary in-house legal voice for GoDigital Music across all four business divisions: recording, publishing, distribution, and catalog
• Draft and negotiate complex agreements involving revenue-sharing arrangements, minimum guarantees, advances, recoupment mechanics, and royalty structures within music distribution and rights-based transactions
• Lead due diligence efforts related to music catalog acquisitions and rights-based transactions, including analysis of revenue streams, contractual obligations, and asset performance
• Work closely with finance and executive leadership to assess deal structures, evaluate risk, and ensure alignment between legal frameworks and business objectives
• Develop and implement strategies that protect and maximize the commercial value of GoDigital Music's intellectual property assets
• Establish scalable legal frameworks that support transaction execution and financial risk mitigation across all business operations
• Advise on compliance with applicable data protection and privacy regulations
• Collaborate with external legal counsel on litigation strategy, document review, and dispute resolution
• Maintain awareness of evolving practices in music rights, digital distribution, and deal structuring

Experience and Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited US law school.
• Active Bar admission in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in the music industry with direct involvement in music distribution, recording agreements, publishing deals, and catalog acquisitions.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex transactions involving music rights, catalog acquisitions, or structured commercial deals,from deal structuring through closing.
• Deep understanding of deal economics including advance structures, recoupment mechanics, minimum guarantees, revenue-sharing arrangements, and financial covenants relevant to music distribution and catalog transactions.
• Ability to work alongside finance leadership on deal profitability assessment and risk management.
• Experience operating as a primary in-house legal resource or General Counsel with limited support staff, exercising independent judgment across a broad range of legal matters.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.

Our team at GoDigital Music operates with the following core values:

Personal Improvement & Wellbeing: We are committed to doing the work to become the best versions of ourselves physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually in order to explore the world, build community, and curate living in a healthy state of joy, love and inspiration.

Empowered Thinking: We agree to do the work to metabolize our irrational fears so we can make rational decisions to achieve the outcomes we are looking for. This means we will be bold and courageous in failing forward, and we accept risk within well-managed parameters. The faster we hypothesize, test, validate or iterate, the sooner we succeed. There shall be no fear of rejection for speaking up; good ideas can come from anywhere; everyone has a voice; negative behaviors must be surfaced.

Integrity & Fairness: We seek a meritocracy where equity, inclusion, belonging, authenticity, honesty and integrity are paramount.

Service: We seek to deliver vastly more value than we cost and to make the world a happier place everyday.

Additional Information:
GoDigital Music is a GoDigital Media Group company that is committed to creating an inclusive work
environment that reflects the diversity of our community. We are an equal opportunity employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race (or
traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective
hairstyles), religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national
origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision-making,
medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth,
breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age
(40 and over), sexual orientation, veteran or military status.