Sounds Business Operations Manager

Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. Serious producers choose Splice Sounds to bring their ideas to life. A subscription to Splice inspires and accelerates creative success for digital music creators with an industry-leading catalog of sounds and samples and an expanding AI stack. With a rent-to-own marketplace of DAWs and plugins, the Splice experience seamlessly integrates into any music production workflow, regardless of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Via Splice, an unparalleled team of sound designers and sample creators are fueling the success of a growing global community of chart-topping producers, students, and DIY creators.

At Splice, DISCO is a rallying cry for collaboration, accountability, and unity within our organization; Direct, Inclusive, Splice Together, Creator Centric, and Optimistic. Our shared success depends on our ability to support one another, work well together, and communicate directly. By embracing flexibility and a unified approach, we can navigate anything that’s thrown at us.

Splice embraces a culture of remote work. You’ll see your colleagues showing up from across the US and the UK. In order to keep us working well as a team, we have regular communication, including Town Halls, departmental all-hands and get-togethers.

When you join Splice, you join a network of colleagues, peers, and collaborators. Are you ready?

• →Represent Audio Dev's needs and priorities in product roadmap discussions and planning cycles
• →Coordinate between Audio Dev and Product/Engineering teams on shared workstreams and initiatives
• →Bring Audio Dev context into product decisions — surfacing the right data, needs, and trade-offs at the right time
• →Track product initiatives that affect Sounds and flag dependencies or risks proactively

• Own the operational cadence of the Audio Dev team, meeting schedules, agendas, follow-ups, and action item tracking
• Prepare and coordinate materials for leadership presentations and cross-functional meetings
• Ensure the right information reaches the right people at the right time
• Help category leads show up to key meetings prepared and aligned

• Manage and report on the audio development budget (~$120k/month)
• Track spend across in-house production, third-party labels, and artist partnerships
• Flag risks and variances to leadership with context and recommendations
• Partner with Finance on reporting and routine financial processes

• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks across contracting, approvals, and tracking
• Partner with Content Operations to improve systems and reduce manual friction
• Serve as a first-line escalation point for cross-functional issues, routing them appropriately

• Aggregate data on catalog performance, spend, and content health for leadershipIdentify trends or issues that need attention and bring them forward with context
• Support category leads with operational data to inform their decisions

• 3–6 years in program management, content operations, or business operations, ideally in a music, media, or subscription business
• Strong program and project management skills, with experience managing complex, multi-team workstreams
• Comfortable owning meeting cadences, executive communications, and cross-functional coordination
• Experience working with budgets and financial tracking
• Highly organized, proactive, and able to work through ambiguity without waiting to be told what to do

Audio Dev workstreams are visible, on track, and unblockedLeadership meetings are well-prepared, focused, and productiveBudget is tracked and reported accurately every monthCategory leads spend less time on coordination and more time on their core workEscalations are routed and resolved without reaching senior leadership unnecessarily

• Familiarity with Airtable, Notion, Linear, or similar workflow and productivity tools
• Experience working in music tech or creator-focused technology
• A track record of building automations and scalable workflows to streamline team operations
• Experience architecting processes and systems in ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments