Project Manager, Artist Development

AWAL; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A music industry company in London is seeking a Project Manager for their Artist Development team to guide developing artists, manage budgets, and collaborate with marketing teams. The ideal candidate has experience in project management within a music company, a strong grasp of digital distribution, and excellent relationship-building skills. This role offers a vibrant work environment with numerous benefits, including private medical cover and creative growth opportunities.

Benefits

Private medical cover

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Income protection

Music industry perks

Time off over winter break

Qualifications

• Experience in a project management role within a music company.
• Excellent working knowledge of digital music distribution.
• Understanding of digital music marketing and community building.

Responsibilities

• Guide artists in establishing their audience.
• Manage marketing and promo budgets.
• Act as the main point of contact for assigned artists.

Skills

Music marketing

Project management

Relationship building

Digital distribution knowledge

Trend identification

Job description

As a Project Manager, within the Artist Development team, your main focus will be to represent a roster of AWAL’s key developing artists and partners, working with their teams to drive their creative vision, visibility, revenue and relationships whilst adding value to their campaigns.

We expect our Project Managers to work in close collaboration with the A&R and marketing teams to help identify and develop priority artists and releases.

Our team is a passionate, supportive, fun, innovative group of people. Collectively we meet in the office on Monday – Thursday’s. *Fridays are typically spent working remotely from home. Join us in shaping the future of the music industry.

What you'll do:

• Guide a roster of developing artists through the early stages of their careers helping them to establish and grow their audience. Work directly with these artists and their teams to drive and execute their creative ideas or vision.
• Consistently inform and educate both artists and management with current or developing best practices across the industry. Support artists with distribution, marketing and release planning advice and best practices working in tandem with the marketing and global commercial partnerships teams.
• Manage marketing and promo budgets. Collate assets for priority campaigns, coordinate pitching and liaise with external promo teams as needed.
• Act as the first point of contact for assigned artists and liaise with internal departments, from operations, sales and marketing to finance, legal and A&R.
• Represent AWAL at artist showcases & gigs, plus relevant industry conferences and events. Support the existing Artist & Label Development team as required.
• Create and send regular analytics, updates and reports, providing insights where appropriate.
• Work with the Director, Artist & Label Development to regularly review and audit roster activity.
• Research and reach out to third parties as required including identifying relevant trends, sourcing relevant locations, collaborators, third-party curators and creators for specific campaigns when needed.

Who you are:

• You have experience in a label, product or project management role within a progressive music company and can demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of digital music distribution as well as the various DSP processes
• You also have experience or a working understanding of digital music marketing, promotion, community building and social media best practice
• You can identify current trends in viral marketing, content formats and online storytelling tactics
• You can build and nurture both internal and external relationships at all levels and demonstrate an understanding of the evolving needs of a developing artist
• You are a flexible, adaptable and strategic thinker with good communication skills who can remain highly organised and efficiently structure and prioritise your workload

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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