Louis Rouffaud
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Music Jobs Hub, bringing you the best music industry jobs for October 2024.
Fall has come and cooler temperatures may be here, but things are still hot at Underground Sound.
Burn those tastebuds off with these spicy music industry jobs to launch your career to the next level. This month’s edition we’re featuring gigs from Amazon Music, Deezer, and UnitedMasters.
Lastly, are you dreaming of a spicy bowl of ramen in Tokyo to keep that fall chill out? Then this Music Jobs Hub edition is perfect for you with 3 separate mid-career and experienced roles for you to check out in Japan’s capital.
Make sure to find the full curated list & application links at the end of the article.
Happy applying.
Artist Relations Manager at UnitedMasters
Location: Brookyln, New York, United States
Role: “What You’ll Do:
- Serve as the primary liaison with UnitedMasters’ Partner artists, you will:
- Court, build, and maintain relationships with 80/20 Partner artists and other stakeholders interacting with the UM product to make sure they take full advantage of UM’s growing suite of offerings.
- Gather artist feedback on product priorities.
- Identify underserved areas that our products need to support through feature solutions and recommendations.
- Ideate future product features that will help drive artist independence. Help define product requirements that will feed into future product roadmap.
- Clearly communicate our value proposition to the artist community.
- Align with the Music Team to ensure seamless communication across UnitedMasters’ artist ecosystem in a unified brand voice, including by building and iterating on scripts and collaborating with Customer Operations to align messaging for communication portals.
- Support outreach for brand opportunities and other promotions for non-partner Artists.”
Experience: “Minimum Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of experience in marketing, relationship management, project management, customer success or a related field.
- Experience in a role that requires coordination, attention to detail and thoroughness.”
About UnitedMasters: “UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans – empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first – disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties.”
Senior Program Manager at Amazon Music
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Role: “Key job responsibilities
- Conduct analysis through hands on approach to data mining, and define success criteria for music merch discoverability and accessibility
- Identify and define projects that deliver results for music merch
- Partner with global teams in designing, building, and deploying scalable solutions
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs for speed to market, business performance and features
- Build a mechanism to track progress, and provide timely update to relevant stakeholders in Japan and WW”
Experience: “BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Strong written and spoken communication skills in both English and Japanese”
About Amazon Music: “Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture.”
Brand Partnerships Production Assistant at Deezer
Location: Paris, France
Role: “What you will do:
- Coordinate Projects such as playlists creation, landing pages development, audio spots and podcasts recording, game contests organization, events coordination…
- Ensure rigorous monitoring of advertising campaigns with multiple KPI analysis
- Be in direct contact with our clients and our providers on a daily basis
- Design creative assets to convince future customers
- Carrying out a collaborative monthly benchmark on brand content operations”
Experience: “This role is excellent for a person:
- Highly analytical with an great level in Excel, and very comfortable with numbers
- French native, fluent in both French and English with excellent written and oral communication skills
- With a relevant internships background – a first experience in the media / advertising / internet industry would be a real plus
- Who knows the basics of Photoshop and Figma and is able to adapt mock-ups”
About Deezer: “From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world.
At sixteen years old, we’re only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further!”
Full list: music industry jobs for October 2024
Internships
Austin Music Foundation — Marketing & Events Intern (Austin)
Bose Corporation — Immersive Audio Research Co-op (Framingham, MA)
Bose Corporation — Outloud Audio Acoustic Research Co-op (Framingham, MA)
Deezer — Brand Partnerships Production Assistant (Paris)
Three Six Zero — Artist Management Intern (Los Angeles)
Universal Music Group — Finance Intern (Kuala Lumpur)
Early Career
Downtown Music — Coordinator, Copyright – Onboarding (New York, Nashville, Los Angeles)
iHeartMedia — DJ/Announcer – Part Time (Manchester, NH)
Live Nation Entertainment —LN Concerts, General Manager – Archer Music Hall (Allentown, PA)
UnitedMasters — Artist Relations Manager (Brooklyn)
Universal Music Group — Email Marketing & CRM Coordinator (Toronto)
Warner Music Group — Legal and Business Affairs Coordinator (8 Month FTC) (London)
Mid-Career
Amazon Music — Senior Program Manager, Amazon Music Japan (Tokyo)
Epidemic Sound — Key Account Manager DSP Partnerships (Stockholm)
Kobalt — Assistant Manager, Writer & Publisher Relations (New York)
Live Nation Entertainment — Stage Manager- Observatory OC (Santa Ana, CA)
ONErpm — A&R Representative (Cape Town, Johannesburg)
SoundCloud — Senior Manager – Artist Relations (London)
TikTok — Music Licensing and Partnerships Manager – Japan (Tokyo)
Experienced
BMG — VP, Marketing Operations (Los Angeles)
Epidemic Sound — Head of Commercial Music Partnerships (Stockholm)
Paradise City Group — Head of Operations (Europe)
Spotify — Director of Sales Japan (Tokyo)
UnitedMasters — Head of Events (Brooklyn, Los Angeles)
Universal Music Group — Director, Sync and Licensing (Nashville)
Universal Music Group — Senior Director, Streaming (Santa Monica)
Warner Music Group — VP, Business & Legal Affairs (Los Angeles)
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