New openings:
Department Assistant, Music (University of Chicago)
The Department Assistant manages the day-to-day operations of the Music Department’s main office. The Department Assistant provides clerical support to the faculty, Chair, and Academic Affairs and Operations Manager in the following areas: faculty hiring and promotion; expense reconciliations and reimbursements; training faculty in common office technology. The Department Assistant also plans events, booking catering and travel according to a budget, directs the activities of student workers, and ensures the timely flow of publicity material. As the primary point of contact for the general public, the Department Assistant refers a high volume of general queries. Office management duties include supply purchasing, identifying necessary facilities improvements, and responsibility for mailing and shipping.
This position typically includes two months off annually with a few exceptions. Details will be provided during the interview process.
Assistant, Music Crossover (CAA – Los Angeles)
CAA is seeking an Assistant to support a senior level Agent in our Music Crossover department based in Los Angeles. The Music Crossover department works to provide the music roster with opportunities that span beyond touring such as: creating soundtracks for commercials/film scores/tv shows/digital content, music videos, on-screen placement, brand partnerships, and many other creative avenues.
The ideal candidate should be motivated, quick-thinking, and has an interest in entertainment, with a focus on the music industry. The individual should be a master of all things administratively related, a polished communicator, and able to interface directly with all clients and C-level industry executives while remaining poised during all encounters (in-person, phone, email, etc.).
This is a great opportunity for someone with an innovative mentality, is passionate about the music business and how musicians can integrate with and impact different areas of the industry, beyond the live concert experience. Growth exsists for top performers.
Manager, Music Label Partnerships (Google/Youtube – Nashville)
As Manager, you will be responsible for providing ongoing relationship management to YouTube and Google Play’s key US label partners, with a focus on supporting labels and artists with promotional opportunities to help build their success. In this role, you will interact regularly with counterparts at labels and also collaborate closely with internal teams. You will have exceptional partner management skills, a service mindset, and extensive relationships in the music industry.
Data Program Manager (Apple – Santa Clara Valley, CA)
Apple is seeking a proven Data Program Manager to join the Apple Music Analytics and Data Products team. This team seeks to promote productivity and innovation through diverse hiring. The Data Program Manager must coordinate the analytics workflow across various teams who design, build, maintain, or enhance business-critical datasets from a multitude of sources. These datasets are the foundation for the analysis, tools, and reports provided to the growing Apple Music business organization and partners.
Sr. Product Manager, Voice (Amazon Music – San Francisco, CA)
Love music? Huge fan of the Amazon Echo? Combine your passions and come reinvent music listening with us! We’re working hard, having fun, and making history here at Amazon Music.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will help define and build new Amazon Music features for Alexa that make it easier for customers to fall in love with music. At Amazon Music, product managers are the CEO of the features they build and closely collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Design, and more, to set strategy for, define, design, and directly manage all aspects of the customer experience. A successful candidate will be customer obsessed, highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that customers love.
Group Product Management Lead, Music Personalization (Pandora – Oakland, CA)
We have a great opportunity for a passionate, analytical, cross-functional, and experienced leader to own the vision, innovation and execution of Pandora’s music programming product. Your leadership will impact a massive user base with billions of hours of monthly listening time, across touch points ranging from mobile apps to cars to voice assistant platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to work with incredible engineers, scientists, designers, marketers, and other contributors to ship amazing products and features, in an environment that combines brilliant thinking, open-ended creativity, fun activities, and mutual respect. This position is full time and based in our Oakland office.
Director, Global PMO (Pandora – Oakland, CA)
The Director, Global PMO will report to the company’s Chief Accounting Officer and is strategic and critical leader who will lead transformation initiative for the CAO org. The PMO function provides program and project management as well as acquisition integration services and supports all global Finance functions working closely with organizations outside Finance.
In this role you will manage the execution of large Finance cross-functional projects and programs and transformation efforts. Responsibilities include management of the development of business cases, governance structures, integrated work plans, scope management plans and quality plans. You will also provide day to day project management services including proactive management of key decisions, risk assessment and mitigation, issue escalation, communications plans and change management.
Director, Commercial Business, YouTube Music (Sony – NYC)
The Director, Commercial Business, YouTube Music is responsible for building and maintaining a best in class commercial partnership on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment’s US Commercial Business group. The role is accountable for driving revenue and leading overall day to day strategy. The role will need to continually cultivate the partnership to develop optimal revenue, reach and market share on behalf of SME’s US labels and artists.
Music Systems Project Manager, Media Operations (Facebook – NYC)
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we’re building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we’re just getting started.The Media Operations team develops solutions for media companies on Facebook and Instagram by creating scaled systems to address the issues impacting their experiences with the suite of Facebook products. Our Music Operations team is committed to providing support for music content partners inclusive of the specific needs of the industry.
We are seeking a Music Systems Project Manager to play a lead role in technical partner operations, copyright data analysis, and ad hoc tool creation. They are expected to think creatively about ambiguous issues and are passionate about problem-solving. They will also be able to work successfully across teams and regions.
Program Director (Entercom Communications – Orlando, FL)
Orlando has an immediate Program Director opening for two of its top properties; Hot A.C. WOMX-FM (Mix 105.1) and Alternative WQMP-FM (FM 101.9). The Program Director will be responsible for leading and managing all aspects of both radio stations’ brand experience, including on-air content, events, promotions, contesting, and digital presence. Applicants should have proven leadership and management skills and experience, strategic thinking skills with the ability to communicate a clear vision, and motivate and inspire those around them. Experience with talent coaching, event management, copy writing, a deep knowledge and understanding of branding/imaging and effective digital engagement are required and creativity is mandatory! Applicants should have at least 5 years of programming experience, understand PPM audience measurement, FCC rules and regulations, have the ability to work hand-in-hand with sales to develop new and existing business and programming opportunities, meet deadlines, and have fun.
Production Business Manager (We Are Unlimited – Chicago)
we are unlimited seeks a task master and process champion to drive seamless workflow for ontime and on-budget delivery. This is someone who has tireless enthusiasm for the details! An individual that can work closely with others to interpret ideas and collaborate towards a common outcome within multiple channels; helping to create entertaining and engaging content for one of the largest brands in the world. This is a full-time position based in Chicago.
Business Manager (Cumulus Media – Chicago, IL)
Cumulus Media (WLS-AM, WLS-FM, WLUP-FM, WKQX-FM, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls) is searching for an experienced Business Manager in our Chicago market. Applicant must have strong organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment. A/R, A/P, Payroll, Human Resources, Financial Statement, and Administrative Management experience required. Strong accounting skills and budget preparation/analysis needed.
Responsible for managing all financial and human resource related functions of the market by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates.
Director, Employee Experience & Inclusion (Pandora – Oakland, CA)
This role will report directly to the Chief Human Resources Officer and will develop a team of program managers and coordinators, and execute strategies and programs that will:
CONNECT the importance of employee experience to Pandora’s business success
DRIVE diversity and inclusion priorities and initiatives to achieve Pandora’s 2020 goals
INFLUENCE leaders and our workforce to advance diversity and inclusion
AMPLIFY a workplace where invested employees feel a strong sense of belonging and connection throughout the employee lifecycle
IMPACT our local communities through commitment to systemic change
FURTHER Pandora’s brand to competitively position ourselves as a people-centric organization and to attract top talent
You will have experience building and executing diversity strategies and programs, with a track record of using storytelling and data to drive action that will lead to results.
Manager, Marketing Music Clearance (Netflix – Los Angeles)
The Netflix marketing legal team is hiring a seasoned manager of music to manage music clearance for Netflix’s Marketing and PR teams.
Our Marketing and PR campaigns are a key part of Netflix’s ongoing success, and music is core to those campaigns. Working closely with the existing marketing music team, the company’s Music Group and stakeholders in the Marketing and PR organizations, the successful candidate will be comfortable working through a wide range of music clearance matters. Keeping in mind the strategic goals of the company and understanding the broader legal implications of each music deal is paramount. This includes working across various types of media in all kinds of integrations, having great relationships within the music industry and knowing how to keep forward momentum in the fast-moving world of marketing and PR. Helping find song owners (no matter how obscure), digging into challenging negotiations, and facilitating the marketing and PR teams music use.
The successful candidate loves everything music. S/he spends his/her free time going to venues, searching the Internet for the next great artists, and studying musicology. Because the role deals with so many people across all sizes of companies s/he knows everyone in the industry – the record labels, the publishers, artists, managers, studios, networks, agencies, marketing teams, producers, post producers, editors, and directors. S/he thinks having several different licenses (synch, master, mechanical, etc.) for the same work makes complete sense and doesn’t think twice about a 7-way split ownership for “a side” of a song. S/he thinks about negotiation from a broad perspective and geeks out about the business side of music even more than the creative side.
The successful candidate will be someone who loves working in an environment where freedom and responsibility are tenets, and passion, innovation and curiosity are mandates. S/he will have incredible soft skills to compliment his/her diligent work ethic. S/he seeks an environment that places thoughtful efficiency over process yet s/he knows how to work with organizations or institutions that may not hold the same beliefs. This page outlines how s/he always thought a company should be run.
Senior Business Affairs Manager (Droga5 – NYC)
This position Involves managing the production, legal, business and financial aspects of Broadcast, Print and Digital production for our Clients, including production and talent contracting, budget administration, licensing of third-party materials, and scoping and managing of legal issues (including interpretation of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) commercial contract as it relates to specific interactive productions). The integrated Production business manager is assigned to each job, along with a producer — this team handles the job from creative approval to final billing.
Manager, Talent Acquisition (Sony – NYC)
Sony Music seeks an experienced talent spotter and enthusiastic individual to join the Talent Acquisition team.
If you have a passion for music, a creative medium, people and enjoy coming up with new and innovative ways to attract talent while working across extraordinary label brands, catalog, digital businesses, and corporate functions in pursuit of the Music industry’s most talented individuals, this opportunity is ideal for you!
You will be identifying future talent and engaging our next generation of executives. In this role you will manage the end to end recruitment process, including exempt and non-exempt positions, providing recruitment best practices to this fast-moving and creative business.
KNIX Program Director (iHeartMedia – Phoenix, AZ)
Leads all aspects of radio station’s on-air experience in a leadership and operations role, responsible for talent, content, programming, and online presence.
Strategic Partner Manager (Pandora – Oakland, CA)
Pandora is looking for a Strategic Partner Manager to own key strategic partnerships and initiatives. Responsibilities include the successful roll out, communication, and commercialization of partner initiatives as well as day to day management of partners in scope. This is a highly cross-functional independent contributor role that will report into Platforms and Partner Operations and combines aspects of program management, partner management and operations.
Regional Sales and Marketing Manager (Hard Rock – Chicago)
The primary responsibility of the Regional Sales and Marketing Manager is to build, lead, train and support the cafe Sales & Marketing managers in the field to optimize the potential top line sales within each market. Regionals are also responsible for ensuring that all sales and marketing initiatives obtain the desired profit margins. This person needs to develop creative strategic initiatives leveraging relationships to drive top line cafe and retail sales while heightening consumer awareness. The regional will also assist in the development of sale strategies for all cafe operations with emphasis on maintaining consistent direction and vision through the entire field sales force and cafe management teams. She/he will work closely with the Director of Café Operations and Corporate Marketing team to deliver on the overall company strategic plan while being involved with the development of the local business plans.
Senior Marketing Manager (HarperCollins – Nashville)
The Senior Marketing Manager is a strategic and tactical leader in planning and managing marketing activities for key frontlist and select backlist books for W Publishing which prides itself on strong author relationships, award-winning content, and a cohesive team environment. W Publishing’s successes include current New York Times bestsellers Capital Gaines by Chip Gaines as well as past mega-sellers The Magnolia Story, Heaven is For Real, and Same Kind of Different as Me.
This position will lead and develop our digital strategy for W Publishing as well as create and manage comprehensive campaigns for assigned books which includes but is not limited to: marketing positioning, consumer messaging, media planning and buying, social media strategy, live events, budgeting, and ROI analysis for each campaign. In partnership with authors, agents, editors, vendors, retail sales and other team members, the senior marketing manager applies an integrated approach to meet sales goals.
Influencer Partnerships Manager (Influential Network – Beverly Hills, CA)
Influential, an A.I. influencer technology and official partner of IBM Watson, is looking for a talented Influencer Partnerships Manager to spearhead influencer outreach, sourcing new talent, and ultimately connecting relevant influencers to brands we work with on campaigns. Based in LA and reporting to EVP of Operations & Chief of Staff, the ideal candidate should eat, sleep, and breathe everything social media.
We offer competitive compensation, daily catered lunches, a comprehensive benefits package, and equity options for all employees. We also have an awesome collaborative work environment and a diverse team who rocks. Ready to join?!
Senior Manager, Events & Venue Partnerships (iHeartMedia – NYC)
The Senior Manager of Events & Venue Partnerships will report to the Senior Vice President of Events & Venue Partnerships and will be an integral team member in leading and supporting sales efforts of the iHeartRadio national tent-pole events, Theaters and custom event opportunities through lead generation, cold calling and generating new revenue.
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Analyst, Copyright Royalties (UMG – Woodland Hills, CA)
UMG is currently seeking an Analyst in its Copyright Royalties Department. The Analyst will, among other things: identify exploitations of assets, research song ownership, verify and assign copyright ownership splits with internal and external parties as required. The position requires focus, diligence, and accuracy, all accomplished in a fast-paced environment. An analyst must be agile and adaptable, organized and dependable – showing character and care for the work produced. The role also requires the ability to cultivate effective relationships with label personnel and other third parties.
Analyst, Ad Effectiveness (Pandora – NYC)
Coordinate projects with internal teams across multiple research vendors
and provide expertise in research methodology, interpret performance, and offer performance insights.
Hip-Hop Critic (Rolling Stone – NYC)
Rolling Stone is hiring a music critic and features writer to cover the entirety of hip-hop music. The music critic will have authority and audience within the hip-hop space. She/he will review albums and concerts, cover music news, conduct interviews and write feature stories. The music critic will write enterprise articles, profiles, previews, news, breaking news. Additionally, the music critic may represent the magazine at industry conferences, or on TV or radio. The music critic will contribute essays, opinion pieces, lists, and re-appraisals.
Booking Agent (Bialek’s Music – Rockville, MD)
Leading Washington, DC-based Talent Agency needs detailed, accurate, fast working, excellent with people team-player. Experience in the talent industry preferred.
Assistant to CEO (Pandora – Oakland, CA)
The Executive Assistant provides executive and administrative support to the Office of the CEO. The dynamic candidate we seek will be organized, detail-oriented, flexible, creative, forward-thinking, committed, and passionate about his/her work. Confidentiality and discretion are key. The candidate must be extremely professional and possess great communication skills. Due to the visibility of the position, the candidate needs to work well with all levels of company staff, as well as executives and support staff in high-profile partner organizations. This position will report directly to the CEO.
Executive/Personal Assistant to President of a Record Label (Tuff City – NYC)
We are a small, independent record label founded over thirty years ago in New York, NY. We focus mainly on hip-hop, funk, soul, R&B, and jazz recordings, and have amassed a very large catalog of works. We are seeking an executive/personal assistant to aide our President in his work.
Editorial Assistant (SonicBids – NYC)
At Backstage.com we are focused on creating the best casting tools, providing academic-level career advice and covering industry news for actors and talent seekers.
The editorial team at Backstage researches, creates and packages content to support and inspire our users in the major performing arts markets of London, New York City, and Los Angeles. We are looking for an editorial assistant with entry-level journalism/publishing experience to join our team.
If you are planning or have recently begun a career in editorial and are looking to gain experience in a professional and dynamic content organization, this is the opportunity for you. You’ll learn the ropes with a small, friendly team, and you’ll get a ton of hands-on experience with the administrative side of editorial: backend CMS uploads, interview transcription, content syndication and cold-calling leads and more.
Music Production Coordinator (National Children’s Chorus – NYC)
The National Children’s Chorus seeks a dynamic, service-oriented individual with experience in event production to manage weekly rehearsals on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for its students (5 to 15 years of age), seasonal performances and special events in New York. The role is to provide strong and dependable support for the organization’s local operations and infrastructure. The position requires excellence in production logistics, customer service, personnel management, writing and communication skills, flexibility and problem solving. Time will be spent both in an office setting, and on-site at events. Working closely with parents, students, and staff members is an integral part of this position.
Music Editor (NFL – Mount Laurel, NJ)
Select music from the NFL Films, and other production music libraries at the direction of show producers. Creatively edit music to picture, as well as review/repair previously edited music selections.
Executive Assistant (Cornerstone – NYC)
The Executive Assistant to CEO will provide a full range of administrative support including but not limited to: scheduling meetings, maintaining calendars, making travel arrangements, processing expense reports and assisting with special projects.
Music Coordinator (Facebook – Menlo Park, CA)
he Music Coordinator will assist the Music Development Manager with day-to-day administration, communications, and events within the Sound Design music program.
Coordinator, Client Relations (Ticketmaster – NYC)
The Client Relations Coordinator position will play a crucial role for Ticketmaster’s OnTour team, in the company’s continued evolution in the live entertainment industry. Ticketmaster’s OnTour team is the company’s artist facing department, tasked with building Ticketmaster’s relationships with the artist community, along with informing artists’ teams and acting as a resource to those teams to help them maximize ticket sales, marketing and drive incremental revenue throughout their tour cycle. The Client Relations coordinator will play a critical role in maintaining a solid foundation for the expanding OnTour team, and identifying potential areas of growth with both new and existing clients. The qualified candidate will have demonstrated an understanding of the live music industry.
Music Business Reporter (Rolling Stone – NYC)
Rolling Stone is hiring a reporter to cover the music business. We are seeking a strong writer who is well-connected with good sources within the music industry. The reporter will be responsible for breaking news and writing in-depth business analysis stories. The ideal candidate should have three or more years of business reporting and writing experience. The successful applicant should have proven experience in reporting and finding scoops for a newspaper, trade magazine, or real-time news service, and should possess the ability to write feature stories as well as develop insightful sidebars and other forms of content presentation.
Music Counsel, YouTube (Google – NYC)
You’re an experienced lawyer who will focus on cutting edge music licensing, policy development, content-creation and distribution, and related transactions for Google products, particularly YouTube and Google Play.
You will be managing, drafting, and analyzing a wide variety of music and video content licensing and distribution agreements for YouTube and Google’s growing digital media business, as well as analyzing and advising on legal issues relating to the use of music across the entire spectrum of Google products around the world for agreements and for policy development. You may also provide commercial and product-related legal support for YouTube more generally. You’re a diligent and proactive person who can bring excellent business judgment and strategic thinking, along with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a collegial, fast-paced team environment.
