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# Licensing Operations Manager at Yousician

- **Company:** Yousician
- **Location:** Helsinki, Finland
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yousician/jobs/8849892002

## Job description

## About Yousician

Yousician builds apps that teach the world to play music: Yousician (guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, singing) and GuitarTuna. Licensed music sits at the core of the product: the songs, notation, and lyrics our users learn from every day.

## Why this role exists

This role is the backbone of our licensing operations: the person who keeps track of renewals, rights administration, and royalty reporting day to day, while also supporting strategy, deal negotiations, and rightsholder relationships. You will also bring AI and automation fluency to the team.

## What you will do

- Single source of truth for rights: Build and maintain one trusted record of our agreements, including key terms, renewal dates, exclusions and amendments, so we can make decisions about our catalogue quickly.
- Licensing economics: Model how licensing affects the business, including royalty costs against revenue and margin, working with our content team on which licensed content drives engagement and conversion, and cost forecasts for upcoming deals.
- Automation & AI: Find where manual reconciliation, reporting and follow-up can be automated, and build those improvements.
- Deal analysis: With Finance, benchmark proposed terms against existing deals and recommend commercial terms for negotiations and renewals.
- Royalty reporting: Manage the day-to-day relationship with our royalty reporting partner. This includes reconciling reports, checking royalty and invoice calculations, and resolving delays in claims and payouts.
- Rights clearance: Set up automated monitoring of license status, and resolve clearance or takedown issues.
- Renewals: Own the renewal calendar, move routine renewals forward, and prepare analyses for strategic decisions by management.
- Cross-functional work: Work closely with Licensing, Finance and Operations, and with Product/Content and Data/Engineering on catalogue priorities and reporting pipelines.

## What you have done

- 2+ years in an analytical role such as FP&A, business operations, revenue operations, data analytics or royalty operations, ideally at a digital product company.
- Built financial or operational models that leaders used to make decisions.
- Strong data skills: advanced spreadsheets and SQL, plus experience with a BI tool (e.g. Metabase, Looker), ideally a planning tool such as Pigment.
- Automated manual work using AI, scripts or no-code tools. You can point to a real process you made faster.
- Comfortable with financial reconciliation, including accruals, invoice checks and how revenue and costs flow through the P&L.
- Turned messy data from several sources into a clean, trusted dataset.
- Run several workstreams with Finance and other teams at once without things slipping.

Strong signals

- Experience working with music publishers, PROs/CMOs, collection societies, record labels, or other rightsholders in a licensing or royalty-related capacity.
- Practical, hands-on experience using AI tools to improve operational workflows, such as reconciliation, contract analysis, data processing, or reporting.
- Good understanding of the music rights and royalty ecosystem, including PROs/CMOs, publishers, labels, and other rightsholders, and how different licensing and royalty processes work.

What this role is not

- Not a data-entry or back-office role. You will use judgment on commercial terms, stakeholders and priorities.
- Not a role for waiting on instructions. You set your own priorities and go beyond the day to day. You look past immediate fixes to long-term improvements, and bring leadership recommendations on where licensing should go next.
- Not a legal role, and not the final owner of licensing strategy or deal sign-off. You shape those decisions with data and recommendations.

Practicalities

- Compensation: competitive, based on experience
- Start: as soon as possible.

How to apply

Send us your application and CV(in English). Let's make the world a more musical place together! #rockon

## About us

Yousician is the world’s largest music-tech company, with millions of users worldwide. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Yousician is home to the category-defining Yousician and GuitarTuna apps. Yousician, the #1 platform to learn and play music, makes learning fun, easy, and more accessible for everyone. Yousician’s innovative, award-winning technology listens to you play and gives instant feedback. With interactive, gamified lessons and songs, and courses by world-famous artists like Metallica, Billie Eilish and more, Yousician empowers people to play music they love. Today Yousician employs 100+ professionals from nearly 30 nationalities.

We're hiring, so come join our amazing team and help us make the world a more musical place!

Shaping Music Together - With Every Voice

At Yousician, we’re on a mission to make musicality as common as literacy, and key to that is building a team as diverse as the people we serve. As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and in accordance with our core values, we welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. People with severe disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.

If you have a disability, special needs, or require any specific needs or support during the application process, please feel welcome to inform us and we’ll gladly provide the support you need during the application and interview process.

We’re here to make music more accessible and that includes the path to joining our team.

Candidate privacy

Here at Yousician, we take your privacy seriously. We only process your personal data for recruiting purposes. You can read more about candidate privacy in our[Privacy Notice](https://company.yousician.com/about/job-application-privacy-notice.html).

## About Yousician

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Yousician is a Finnish edtech company that provides interactive music education through mobile and desktop apps, using proprietary audio recognition to teach instruments like guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, and voice.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $28M raised in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Chris Thür & Mikko Kaipainen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: E-Learning / Music Education Technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (hobbyists, beginners, and intermediate musicians of all ages) and B2B (educators via Yousician for Educators)
- **Mission statement**: "Making musicality as common as literacy" [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **[Yousician](https://yousician.com/)**: An interactive learning app (SaaS) that teaches guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, and singing. Provides real-time feedback on accuracy and timing via the device’s microphone. Includes thousands of lessons, exercises, and a library of popular songs.
- **[GuitarTuna](https://yousician.com/)**: The world’s #1 instrument tuner app (SaaS). Supports 15 instruments and over 100 tunings, with a Pro version offering custom tunings.
- **Yousician for Educators**: A classroom tool enabling teachers to manage student progress and assign lessons.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $32.8M; annual revenue estimated at $2.0M (per LinkedIn data, likely a floor estimate) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yousician)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor **True Ventures** (led both Seed and Series B rounds). Also funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 811561). [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/company)
- **Growth Signals**: The company describes itself as "profitable, fast-growing" [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/careers). Combined monthly active users for Yousician and GuitarTuna exceed **20 million**. Headcount is approximately 109 employees (down ~14% YoY, likely due to restructuring or optimization). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yousician)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Audio Recognition**: Patented technology that listens and gives real-time feedback on pitch and timing—a core moat that differentiates it from static video lessons.
- **Dual-Product Ecosystem**: Yousician (learning) + GuitarTuna (tuning) create a sticky user base; GuitarTuna is the #1 tuning app globally.
- **Scale & Data**: 20M MAUs provide a massive dataset to refine AI-driven teaching and personalization.
- **Strong Brand in Music Ed**: Recognized as the leading platform for interactive music learning, with a loyal user community.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Personalization**: The company has a Chief AI Officer (Anssi Klapuri), indicating a focus on leveraging AI to improve adaptive learning paths and feedback. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yousician)
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 13 countries (including Germany, USA, Argentina, Italy, Sweden) with offices in Helsinki and Berlin. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yousician)
- **Monetization & Growth**: Focus on converting free users to Premium+ subscribers and expanding the Family membership plan. [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful Mission**: Employees directly contribute to making music education accessible globally—"profoundly impact the lives of millions of people." [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/careers)
- **Culture**: Described as small, empowered teams with a "work hard and jam hard" ethos. The office includes a recording studio, a stage, and instruments (baby grand piano, drums, etc.) with Friday jamming sessions. [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/careers)
- **Professional Growth**: Strong emphasis on personal development, a "professional growth mindset," and pride in excellent work. [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/careers)
- **Work Policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the studio and team culture; offices in Helsinki and Berlin. [boards.greenhouse.io](https://boards.greenhouse.io/yousician)
- **Benefits**: Standard Nordic perks (lunch, exercise & culture benefits, commuter benefit, free snacks & drinks, medical services, extended insurance) plus access to the recording studio and instruments. [yousician.com](https://yousician.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Works on cutting-edge tech (audio recognition, AI) in small, efficient teams. Open roles include Senior React Native Developer, Backend Developer, and Web App Developer. [boards.greenhouse.io](https://boards.greenhouse.io/yousician)

## Sources
1. [yousician.com - Company Overview](https://yousician.com/company)
2. [yousician.com - Careers](https://yousician.com/careers)
3. [boards.greenhouse.io - Yousician Jobs](https://boards.greenhouse.io/yousician)
4. [linkedin.com - Yousician Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yousician)
5. [yousician.com - Main Product Page](https://yousician.com/)

## Other roles at Yousician

- [Executive Assistant to the CEO](https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-to-the-ceo-yousician-helsinki-9vxca9t0ff3x) — Helsinki, Finland
- [Senior Product Manager, Yousician App](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-yousician-app-yousician-berlin-pzdmb75fnrn7) — Berlin, Germany