Senior Team Manager - Tech (Streaming)

Company Description:

Artificial Intelligence. Automation. Cloud Engineering. Advanced Analytics.
For Enterprises, these are key factors of success. For us, they're our core expertise.

We work with global iconic brands. We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technologies and business process excellence. At the heart of it all is Digital Engineering - the foundation that powers rapid innovation and scalable business transformation.

We've created 363 unique and independent inventions, 250 of which are AI-based and rolled up under several patent grants in critical technologies. Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation at scale, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless "as-a-service" model.

For each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve. With proven strategies and agile execution, we don't just enable change - we engineer digital outcomes.
Sutherland
Digital Outcomes.

Job Description:

The Senior Team Leader is responsible for leading multiple Content Protection Operations (CPro) teams, ensuring the accurate, timely, and compliant processing of copyright infringement and legal claims. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to consistently achieve Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Quality, Critical Fail (CF), Quality Defect (QD), Average Handling Time (AHT), productivity, turnaround time (TAT), and legal compliance targets. The Senior Team Leader drives operational excellence through effective workforce planning, operational governance, risk management, continuous improvement, and people development while partnering closely with Legal, Content Operations, Workforce Management, Quality, Training, HR, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business continuity and operational success.

Key Responsibilities:

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop Team Leaders to consistently achieve operational, quality, compliance, and people performance objectives.

• Foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching sessions, talent assessments, and succession planning activities.

• Drive employee engagement, retention, leadership capability development, and recognition initiatives.

• Build a high-performing leadership team capable of delivering consistent business results.

Operations Management

• Oversee the day-to-day delivery of multiple Content Protection Operations workstreams, ensuring the efficient, accurate, and compliant processing of copyright infringement and legal claims.

• Ensure achievement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Average Handling Time (AHT), Quality, Critical Fail (CF), Quality Defect (QD), productivity, turnaround time (TAT), backlog, and operational performance targets.

• Monitor operational health through performance dashboards and proactively mitigate operational risks impacting business performance.

• Establish and maintain operational governance by ensuring adherence to client policies, standard operating procedures, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead operational readiness for new initiatives, policy changes, and business requirements.

Legal Compliance, Quality & Risk Management

• Ensure all infringement claims are processed in accordance with applicable copyright laws, legal requirements, Spotify policies, and operational procedures.

• Partner with Legal, Quality, and Content Operations teams to maintain high decision accuracy and operational compliance.

• Drive initiatives to minimize Critical Fail (CF) and Quality Defects (QD) through proactive coaching, calibration sessions, quality governance, and root cause analysis.

• Lead corrective and preventive action plans resulting from quality reviews, compliance audits, operational risks, and recurring defects.

• Maintain audit readiness and promote a culture of compliance, operational discipline, and continuous quality improvement.

Workforce Management & Capacity Planning

• Partner with Workforce Management (WFM) to develop short- and long-term staffing strategies aligned with forecasted demand, business priorities, and operational targets.

• Analyze workload trends, case volumes, productivity, backlog, shrinkage, and staffing models to forecast capacity requirements and mitigate operational risks.

• Optimize workforce utilization through effective resource allocation, schedule optimization, cross-training, and workload balancing while consistently achieving SLA, AHT, Quality, Compliance, and productivity objectives.

• Develop contingency and business continuity plans to effectively manage volume fluctuations, operational disruptions, and evolving business requirements.

• Utilize workforce analytics to support hiring plans, organizational design, budget forecasting, and long-term workforce strategy.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze operational and business performance metrics to identify trends, risks, root causes, and opportunities for improvement.

• Lead cross-functional Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions to improve Quality, Critical Fail (CF), Quality Defects (QD), AHT, productivity, compliance, and operational efficiency.

• Drive process standardization, documentation improvements, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve scalability, decision accuracy, and operational effectiveness.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational performance while reducing operational risk and manual effort.

• Support implementation of new tools, technologies, workflows, and operational initiatives.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Legal, Content Operations, Workforce Management, Quality, Training, HR, and other internal stakeholders.

• Present operational performance, quality trends, compliance metrics, workforce insights, risks, and strategic recommendations during business reviews and leadership meetings.

• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex operational, workforce, compliance, and quality-related issues requiring executive oversight.

• Influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights, operational expertise, and collaborative problem-solving.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Legal Management, Law, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Minimum of five (5) years [external applicant] or 12 months [internal applicant] of progressive experience in Content Protection Operations, Copyright Enforcement, Trust & Safety, Legal Operations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property, or a related domain.

• Extensive hands-on experience managing end-to-end copyright infringement and legal claims, including complex, high-risk, and escalated cases involving global digital content platforms.

• Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience managing Team Leaders or multiple operational teams within a BPO, shared services, or global operations environment.

• Demonstrated expertise in copyright regulations, digital rights management, content protection policies, legal compliance, and operational governance.

• Proven success delivering results across SLA, Quality, Critical Fail (CF), Quality Defects (QD), AHT, Productivity, Compliance, Backlog Management, and Workforce Efficiency metrics.

• Strong analytical and strategic planning skills with experience in workforce planning, capacity management, root cause analysis, risk management, and operational governance.

• Experience leading operational transformation, continuous improvement, automation, and AI adoption initiatives.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, executive presentation, coaching, and leadership development skills.

Additional Information:

Applicants who has experience managing You Tube, Google, Content Moderation is good to have.