Program Lead - West London W

Since 2012, Rightsline has been revolutionizing rights and royalties management with its leading IP Commerce SaaS platform. Trusted by global innovators like Disney, Amazon, Spotify, and the NFL, our solutions empower rights holders to maximize portfolio value, reduce risk, and i ...

Job description

Since 2012, Rightsline has been revolutionizing rights and royalties management with its leading IP Commerce SaaS platform. Trusted by global innovators like Disney, Amazon, Spotify, and the NFL, our solutions empower rights holders to maximize portfolio value, reduce risk, and increase profitability. Serving industries from media and entertainment to life sciences, our scalable platform combines advanced analytics, business process outsourcing, and decades of expertise to tackle the most complex rights and royalties challenges.

With over 300 employees across multiple regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India, Rightsline fosters a dynamic, collaborative environment where innovation thrives. We're passionate about creating smarter solutions, encouraging personal growth, and celebrating creativity. Join a team that offers competitive benefits, a supportive workplace, and the opportunity to lead the future of intellectual property management.

Welcome to a world of less data entry and more data integrity. Welcome to the Rightsline reality

The Position

We are looking for an experienced Program Lead to spearhead implementations of our flagship Rights & Royalties platform for London and EU based clients.

This role is the focal point of the client relationship, responsible for the end-to-end delivery, strategic alignment, and operational success of the project. You will bridge the gap between our project and product engineering teams with the client's legal, finance, and content operations departments, ensuring a seamless, high-quality deployment that transforms how our client manages their intellectual property rights.

Status: Full-Time OR 6-month Contract Opportunity – Our recruitment team is actively seeking candidates for this open position.

**We are looking to fill this role in a hybrid environment (minimum 3 days on-site per week)**

What you will do:

• Delivery Leadership: Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Rights & Royalties project, ensuring it is on time, within budget, and meets all contractually agreed milestones and KPIs.
• Strategic Client Partnership: Act as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders, managing expectations, and providing proactive, transparent, and regular progress reports.
• Complex Project Management: Direct a large, cross-functional team (including delivery leads, solution analysts, solutions architects, and developers) to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify, analyze, and manage risks and blockers, developing robust mitigation strategies to keep the project on track.
• Governance & Scope: Maintain tight governance and change control processes to manage scope creep, ensuring the integrity of the project delivery.
• Process Improvement: Drive the implementation of best-practice workflows, moving the client from legacy systems to a modernized, automated environment.

What you will bring to the role:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in project/program management, specifically in delivering large-scale, complex software implementations (SaaS) within a consulting or technology provider environment.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional, dispersed teams in a matrixed organization.
• Communication: Exceptional stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical business leaders.
• Methodology: Strong experience in both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
• Tools: Advanced proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project).
• Location: Based in or able to commute to West London (Hybrid working).
• Bonus Points:
• Relevant certifications (e.g., MSP, PMP, Prince2).
• Experience with specific Rights & Royalties software (e.g., Rightsline, Media Maestro, FilmTrack).

Compensation:

• Competitive Base Salary: At Rightsline, we offer a competitive package that reflects the unique skills, experience, and certifications you bring to the role. Your starting point within this range will be determined by your niche expertise, collaborative initiative, and specialized skill sets you bring to our team. In addition to these variables, we also take into consideration internal equity and regional labour markets to ensure our offers remain fair, balanced, and aligned with our evolving team's needs.
• Comprehensive Health & Wellness: A competitive benefits package covering health, dental, and vision.
• Building Your Financial Future: Providing a Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme to help you reach your long-term savings goals.
• Career Growth Opportunities: Continuous learning and career growth opportunities.

The Rightsline Advantage

At Rightsline we encourage inclusiveness, purpose and innovation. We offer flexible work hours, birthdays off, one-time home office allowance, unlimited vacation time, team socials, happy hours and career progression in a high growth environment.

• Rightsline was the very 1st cloud-based rights and contract management platform, so we're used to innovation. We're also used to incredible growth if you're into that sort of thing.
• You will become part of an amazing culture with a supportive executive team, smart colleagues who truly care, and a global team that's been rocking this virtual collaboration thing since before anyone had ever heard the term COVID19.
• You'll often hear "Yes, let's try that" and then have the chance to execute your ideas.
• You will grow more here than you would at any other company. That's a promise.
• A People First Company - 4.2 rating on Glassdoor

Our 4 Stage Recruitment Process

• Review - We review applications and screen based on a variety of criteria.

• Phone - Candidates will be screened via a quick 20-minute Zoom meeting to discuss the role opportunity.

• Interview - We will conduct 2-3 stages of interviews via Zoom.

• Offer - We will make an offer to the candidate that we feel would excel most in the role.

**Please be advised that only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted, and references will be requested for those candidates selected in the final interview stage.**

Equal Employment Opportunity

Rightsline is an equal opportunity workplace. All candidates will be afforded equal opportunity through the recruiting process. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and/or expression. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team of highly talented individuals and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

Apply Today

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