Music Editor, UK Music Programming, Amazon Music

Amazon Game Studios; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Music UK is seeking a passionate Music Editor for its London Editorial Team. You will curate content across genres, identify trends, and collaborate with international colleagues to deliver engaging playlists, features, and editorial stories for UK listeners.

You'll use data insights to shape listening experiences, attend gigs and festivals, and champion new music releases. The role blends cultural knowledge with product priorities to enhance how fans discover music on our service.

Qualifications

• Data-driven decisions guide curation and content strategy.
• In-depth knowledge across multiple genres and UK/global music trends.
• Ability to create content for diverse audiences across genres.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to key elements of the music experience by creating and refining curated content.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and propose optimisation approaches.
• Champion new music releases and trends across multiple genres.
• Gather, analyse, report, and act on listener engagement data.
• Collaborate with international stakeholders on strategic workstreams and projects.
• Ensure high quality music experiences and drive improvements for customers.

Skills

Data-driven decisions

Music knowledge

Audience-focused content

Tools

GenAI Tools

Job description

Music Editor, UK Music Programming, Amazon Music

Job ID: 10599988 | Amazon Digital UK Limited

Join Amazon Music UK's Editorial Team in London to apply your deep knowledge of music and culture to curate content experiences that connect fans with the artists and tracks they'll love.

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. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; Amazon Music Unlimited customers get on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music

As a Music Editor, you'll need deep knowledge and passion for music across multiple genres, from what’s top of the charts to the latest emerging artists and scenes, what’s trending on Tik-Tok to the all‑time classics. You’ll be immersed in popular culture, attending gigs and festivals, and identifying trends as they happen. You’ll combine this expertise with data insights to provide curated content and human signals to listeners. You'll champion new music releases and collaborate with international teams while focusing on delivering exceptional listening experiences for our UK customers. Whether it's playlists, stations, editorial features, or helping to develop new product features, you'll help innovate at the intersection of music and culture across the Amazon Music service.

If you want to influence how people engage with music on a global scale, this exciting role offers the opportunity to make a real impact in one of the world’s most important music markets.

Key job responsibilities

• Contribute to key elements of the music experience of our service by creating and refining curated content
• Identify innovation and simplification opportunities in existing processes and mechanisms and propose optimisation approaches
• Be the voice of new music releases and trends internally and externally across several genres
• Gather, analyze, report, and act on listener engagement and content usage data
• Collaborate with international stakeholders to contribute to strategic workstreams, and deliver added value projects
• Obsess over the quality of the music experience of our service, identifying, influencing and actioning improvements for our customers

A day in the life

As a Music Editor, a lot of time will be spent reviewing and listening to new releases and curating them for listeners. You’ll review streaming data and engagement metrics to identify content performance and emerging trends in the UK market, reacting to those trends in your curation. You'll collaborate with local, regional and global colleagues to align on global music releases, ensuring local relevance.

Throughout the day, you’ll curate and refine playlists and stations, selecting tracks that resonate with diverse listener preferences, from Gen Z discovering the latest new artists, to fans exploring their genres, moods, themes and catalogue music. You'll analyse and prepare reports on customer engagement and listening patterns for the team to optimise content placement, and review the quality of listening experiences and new product features. You’ll develop and contribute to editorial features, and work closely with our Industry Relations Team to coordinate new release campaigns, connecting artists with fans. Regular touchpoints and mechanisms with your Programming Team peers will help you share insights and contribute to strategic initiatives that enhance the Amazon Music experience for customers across the Amazon Music app and Alexa devices.

About the team

The Amazon Music Editorial Team's mission is to curate the best listening experience for our customers, highlighting the most relevant content from a diverse range of genres, moods and activities, and helping artists reach fans. As a Music Editor, you will use your content expertise and data insights to actively influence and evolve our content portfolio and associated initiatives. We work across voice and visual experiences and collaborate with local, regional and global peers and stakeholder teams as well as our music industry partners.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and make data-driven decisions
• In-depth knowledge across a range of musical styles, and of current trends and history in the UK and global music industry
• Ability to create content for specific audiences across genres

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Gen Z media habits and curiosity to understand new trends
• Experience working in Music Streaming environments
• Experience with GenAI Tools

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