Jake Handy's work history, newest first. Staff Product Manager, Automation at The Mechanical Licensing Collective in Nashville, Tennessee, previously Senior Product Manager at Vobile and Pex.
The Mechanical Licensing Collective
- Staff Product Manager, Automation, Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos · Full-time · Nashville, Tennessee · Hybrid
Architecting automation solutions to put more money in songwriters' pockets.
Skills: Product Management, Prototyping
Vobile
- Senior Product Manager, Apr 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos · Full-time · Remote
Following acquisition, continuing Pex's mission to use cutting-edge tech to fairly protect and compensate creatives and their work.
Pex
- Senior Product Manager I, Nov 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Full-time · Remote
Senior PM leading Pex's R&D efforts. Projects include a proprietary machine learning model that aggregates massive disparate data sources, hands-on RLHF training of various metadata resolution models, research into improvements for Pex's numerous advanced audio and melody fingerprints, and exploration into emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence.
Skills: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Music Publishing, Machine Learning - Product Manager II, Oct 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Full-time · Remote
PM on the ingestion and metadata portion of Pex's Attribution Engine. Responsibilities included vetting and establishing metadata standards, running agile operations for two distinct teams of developers, partnering with rightsholders to establish content ingestion feeds, and working with our database team to ensure product requirements were working in harmony with database designs.
Skills: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Music Publishing, Agile
Ingram Content Group
- Digital Product Specialist, Apr 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Full-time · Nashville, Tennessee
Product management for numerous products, both B2B and B2C, within an agile, fast-paced team. Products included a marketing platform for authors, a metadata enhancement service for publishers, and others.
Skills: Go-to-Market Strategy, Machine Learning - Business Operations Analyst, Sep 2017 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Full-time · Nashville, Tennessee
Analyzed numerous book and media business operations, utilizing SQL and multiple data visualization tools to serve Ingram teams. Day-to-day work in collaboration with media analysts, marketers, IT professionals, front-end developers, and others.
Skills: Go-to-Market Strategy, Software Development, SQL
Naxos of America
- Music Data Consultant, May 2017 - Sep 2017 · 5 mos · Contract · Franklin, Tennessee
Onsite consultant for numerous music data-related issues and tasks. Improved Classical metadata for numerous albums and helped existing staff to improve data workflows.
Skills: Go-to-Market Strategy, Metadata Standards
Dart Data
- Head of Metadata, Nov 2016 - Jun 2017 · 8 mos · Full-time · Nashville, Tennessee
Served as Head of Metadata and worked to expand the technology developed from our platform into a complete metadata cleanup B2B solution.
Skills: Music Publishing, Go-to-Market Strategy - Music Metadata Specialist, Jun 2015 - Nov 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Full-time · Nashville, Tennessee
Served as SaaS product lead and music metadata specialist in developing an advanced Classical music distribution platform that collected and distributed music metadata and processed it to perfection for consumption and categorization by iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon, etc. Developed proficiencies in HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, and numerous pieces of mockup and design software.
Skills: Music Publishing, Go-to-Market Strategy, SaaS