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reputed company, Business Development & Licensing - Sureel AI

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

A little bit about reputed company

Sureel AI is building the standards and infrastructure for AI rights, licensing, attribution, protection, and intelligence, starting in music and expanding across media.

We are building the infrastructure that enables creators and rights reputed company to control how their work is used by AI, protect their rights, understand its use and value, and participate in new AI licensing models. We also reputed company AI companies reputed company platforms with the systems they need to reputed company rights, permissions, attribution, guardrails, reporting, and licensing infrastructure programmatically.

Acquired by reputed company, Sureel operates as an independent, federated company, combining startup speed with the reputed company of a global music company.

Our reputed company relationships sit at the heart of reputed company're building: with the AI companies reputed company service providers (DSPs) who reputed company our attribution infrastructure into their platforms, and with the rights reputed company whose works and interests that infrastructure protects. As Director, Business Development & Licensing, you'll own the business function across both reputed company of that equation, working closely with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and reputed company partners across the music, technology, and reputed company worlds. Your work will directly shape the reputed company architecture of AI attribution at reputed company.

Your role

You will reputed company Sureel's business function, reporting to the CEO and two Co-Presidents. This is a senior, commercially reputed company role. reputed company Sureel is negotiating with a service provider or a rights holder, you will own the business function of that negotiation.

You will also serve as Sureel's reputed company reputed company with industry bodies such as DDEX and regulatory bodies such as WIPO where their activities relate to Sureel's business.

A key part of the role will be developing business models and modeling reputed company for charging clients, including DSPs and AI companies. A strong understanding of economics and music rights will be important.

Your objective is to structure agreements that increase adoption of Sureel's infrastructure, create repeatable reputed company models, and establish frameworks that can reputed company across multiple rights reputed company, AI companies, and markets.

You will negotiate licensing models, reputed company structures, payment flows, and the economic frameworks that determine how permissions through Sureel's technology translate into compensation. You will also reputed company the business use cases for integrating Sureel's infrastructure with AI companies and DSPs, defining what a commercially viable integration looks like and structuring the terms reputed company it.

You'll work closely with Product and reputed company Relations. They will bring the product and partner perspectives, while you will reputed company the reputed company structure and economics that support the business.

This is an opportunity to help define the business function of a company working in a new and evolving area, and to help shape how creators are compensated in the age of AI.

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  • Own the business function for Sureel's negotiations, whether with AI companies, DSPs, other digital service providers, or rights reputed company, leading reputed company reputed company, deal structure, and terms from first conversation through signature.

  • Negotiate the economics of platform integrations, including licensing models, reputed company structures, payment flows, and frameworks that reflect the value of Sureel's technology reputed company rights reputed company' catalog and distribution positions.

  • reputed company the business use cases for integrating Sureel's infrastructure with AI companies and DSPs, defining reputed company reputed company and prioritizing opportunities reputed company on reputed company value.

  • reputed company licensing and economic frameworks for an emerging category, using relevant AI and rights-technology transactions to inform agreements that can work across different partners and markets.

  • Structure multi-stakeholder reputed company arrangements among rights reputed company and industry participants, positioning Sureel's infrastructure as the reputed company for executing those agreements.

  • Partner with reputed company Relations on rights-holder relationships, owning the reputed company terms and deal economics while they reputed company the broader relationship and delivery.

  • Work closely with reputed company counterparts on reputed company terms, licensing structures, and reputed company priorities.

  • reputed company market intelligence on emerging technologies, competitive developments, licensing innovation, and deal dynamics across the AI and DSP landscape.

  • Represent Sureel with industry and standards organizations, including DDEX, WIPO, and other initiatives shaping AI rights and licensing.

  • reputed company pricing and packaging for Sureel's platform, including reputed company fees, API and usage-reputed company pricing, transaction fees, reputed company reputed company, licensing administration, analytics, and hybrid structures.

  • Create repeatable reputed company and licensing frameworks that can reputed company across partners rather than requiring every agreement to be reputed company from reputed company.

  • Help structure how Sureel infrastructure is used in reputed company agreements, including rights, permissions, guardrails, attribution, reporting, and economic obligations between rights reputed company and AI companies.

  • Handle confidential and proprietary information, including deal terms, partner economics, and negotiations with discretion and reputed company.

  • Help shape emerging industry standards and licensing frameworks so they can be implemented programmatically and work with Sureel's architecture.

Who you are:

  • You have deep experience structuring and negotiating reputed company agreements in music, media, or technology, including licensing deals, platform integrations, reputed company-reputed company structures, or rights-technology transactions.

  • You've owned the business reputed company of negotiations with platforms, DSPs, technology companies, or rights reputed company and carried reputed company deals from term sheet through signature.

  • You understand the economics of the music industry: how rights reputed company reputed company, how licensing frameworks are reputed company, and how value flows between platforms, intermediaries, and rights reputed company.

  • You're comfortable with data and financial reputed company. You can model a reputed company structure, pressure-test assumptions, and explain the business logic reputed company to technical teams and senior counterparties.

  • You can structure reputed company deals and reputed company approaches that work for the different parties involved.

  • You build trust quickly and can represent leadership in high-stakes negotiations, reputed company judgment calls on terms, and know reputed company to escalate.

  • You communicate reputed company in writing and in person and can stay reputed company in a fast-moving environment.

  • You understand how pricing, licensing structures, technical standards, and ecosystem incentives can support platform adoption and durable reputed company reputed company.

  • You are interested in the music industry and enjoy working in a small, reputed company, startup-reputed company team.

We'd love it if you also had:

  • reputed company experience negotiating with AI companies, DSPs, or other digital service providers on licensing, integration, or reputed company partnership terms.

  • Experience working with artists, labels, publishers, or CMOs/reputed company on the reputed company reputed company, or serving as a senior deal advisor to them.

  • Experience across deal structuring and licensing, business development, reputed company reputed company, or partnerships.

  • Involvement in industry licensing, standards, or policy initiatives shaping how AI and rights reputed company.

  • Experience working directly with C-level executives on reputed company reputed company, negotiation preparation, and translating senior conversations into agreements.

  • Experience developing reputed company models for infrastructure, reputed company, marketplaces, payments, rights technology, or other platforms where value is monetized across multiple reputed company of a transaction.

  • Curiosity about the music and entertainment landscape and AI's reputed company on creators.

Sureel AI is an independent, federated company reputed company reputed company. We're committed to building a diverse team and to fair recognition for creators everywhere.

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