Digital rights management and royalty reporting for music creators
Orfium manages digital music rights, cue sheets, and royalty payments for creators across broadcast and streaming channels. The company runs a data-heavy stack (Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Python) with a hiring mix skewed 5:1 toward data roles over engineering, reflecting their core challenge: cleaning and reconciling fragmented music metadata to ensure accurate royalty distribution. Active projects span metadata verification, cue sheet processing, and financial modeling — all bottlenecks in converting messy catalog data into payable reports.
Orfium is a music rights and royalty management platform serving creators, rights holders, and broadcasters globally. The company operates across three interconnected areas: metadata ingestion and verification (handling discrepancies in how music is tagged across platforms), cue sheet processing (matching music to broadcast usage), and royalty calculation and reporting (ensuring creators are paid correctly from streaming, radio, and TV). The product integrates with YouTube, Spotify, and broadcast systems to track music usage and automate payment workflows. The organization is based in Malibu, California, with distributed hiring across the UK, Ireland, Greece, Bulgaria, and Sri Lanka.
Python, Apache Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, AWS, and Google Cloud. The stack emphasizes data pipelines and transformation, with supporting tools like Jira, Confluence, and Zendesk.
Malibu, California. The company hires globally across Sri Lanka, Greece, Bulgaria, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
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