Publishing Manager

Sing Up; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Sing Up, a music education company, is seeking a Publishing Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of publishing and learning content, from commissioning through to publication. You’ll coordinate workflows across music production, editorial, and digital publishing, and work with songwriters, arrangers, engineers, and external partners.

You’ll ensure quality, timelines, and consistency, signing off on most published content and applying sound judgment on rights and licensing.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end delivery of music publishing or content delivery projects.
• Understanding of how songs, arrangements, notation and recordings are developed.
• Ability to manage timelines, priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to provide final editorial sign-off for published content.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of music publishing and learning content.
• Translate content and publishing strategy into clear delivery plans.
• Coordinate contributors, editors, and partners across teams.
• Act as final editorial sign-off for most published content.

Skills

Publishing PM

Editorial QA

Cross-functional

Music content dev

Job description

Sing Up is a music education company that believes in the power of singing to transform lives. We support schools, teachers and music practitioners through high-quality resources, training, and a global digital platform.

We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-focused Publishing Manager to lead the delivery of our music publishing and learning content.

This role is central to ensuring our music content (including songs, arrangements, recordings, and teaching resources) is delivered to a high standard, from commissioning through to publication.

About the role

As Publishing Manager, you’ll take responsibility for the end‑to‑end delivery of music publishing and learning content, ensuring work is planned, coordinated, and delivered effectively and efficiently across teams.

You’ll:

• Translate content and publishing strategy into clear delivery plans.
• Manage workflows across music production, editorial, and digital publishing.
• Coordinate contributors and partners.
• Act as final editorial sign‑off for the majority of published content.

You’ll work closely with editors, digital, marketing, and partnerships colleagues, as well as songwriters, composers, arrangers, engineers, and a variety of external partners.

This is a collaborative role combining project management, editorial quality assurance, and music publishing expertise, ensuring content is delivered on time, to an excellent standard, and aligned with organisational priorities.

About you

You’re an experienced and highly organised professional who thrives on turning ideas into well executed outcomes. You bring:

• Strong experience managing complex publishing or content delivery projects in music publishing, music education, or a related creative field.
• Understanding of how music content is developed, including songs, arrangements, notation and/or recordings.
• Confidence working across editorial, production, and digital workflows.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage timelines, priorities, and multiple stakeholders.

You take pride in quality and consistency, and bring a practical understanding of what makes content accurate, usable, and ready for publication.

You’re proactive, solutions focused and calm under pressure, able to bring structure and momentum to collaborative work.

An understanding of rights and licensing in music publishing is desirable, but just as important is your ability to learn quickly and apply sound judgement.

Our workforce is diverse in many areas but underrepresented in others. We understand how people with different lived experience will enrich the work we do, and for this reason, we welcome and encourage applications from people from the Global Majority, people with a lived experience of disability, and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Why join us

We are an innovative, future‑focused team committed to improving how education supports children and young people, particularly through creativity, music, and emerging technologies.