Job Description
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
Department
Based in London, Los Angeles and New York, Mercury Studios is a music first content studio established to develop, produce, globally distribute and invest in innovative, music-rooted storytelling. Editorial independent from Universal, we work with a global network of creatives and artists in the areas of premium factual Film & TV, concert capture and performance led content, shortform and audio. We are filmmakers in the world of music.
Alongside our original content, Mercury Studios represents the world’s leading catalogue of music-related content, consisting of thousands of hours of premium music-driven film and television programming. Our Distribution and Content Sales team has over 20 years of experience of licensing music-driven content to buyers worldwide, from global platforms to national broadcasters, theatrical and emerging platforms like FAST.
Bringing these areas together we are uniquely placed to produce powerful projects which are editorially sound and reach global audiences. Our projects have received Academy, BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy Awards and extensive festival wins.
The Role
To be a creative curator and digital content manager for our growing slate of catalogue and new content.
You will be hands-on in the digital distribution of our content across digital platforms. Working directly with the VP of Channel Management, you will ensure our content is curated in the most engaging ways possible for audiences.
Key Responsibilities
Be a lead digital curator, creating clips and highlights from our vast music library for exploitation across our digital channels - with a primary focus on YouTube. Generating and repurposing content from our archives for digital distribution.
Manage the schedule for all digital media uploads.
Develop and create new channel brands with the SVP of Digital Content, to grow our audience and exploit our deep music A/V catalogue.
Work with the VP of Channel Management to build and grow new channels across YouTube and beyond.
Manually edit and clip content as-needed to populate our MCN with unique short form video.
Work with the media team to organize and process our short form database.
Support the larger marketing and content teams with creative ideas around the promotion of new and catalogue content releases.
Contribute to the global digital content strategy with creative ideas for content formats and channel partnerships.
Work with the larger UMG digital team to release content across YouTube and beyond.
Work with larger content teams to support content aggregation, distribution, and creative strategies around new platforms; such as FAST and AVOD.
Monitor digital media trends, platform updates, and best practices.
Skills and Experience Required
Must Have
Previous experience as a Channel Manager
Ability to be autonomous and run paid media campaigns
Experience clipping their own material
Strong writing skills and attention to detail
Nice to Have
YouTube certified a strong asset
About UMG UK
We are Universal Music Group UK – the UK’s leading music-based entertainment company. We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. We help UK artists produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to inspire and entertain fans at home and around the world.
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
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Universal Music Group
We are UMG, the Universal Music Group.
We are the world’s leading music company.
In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship.
We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
Our vast catalog of recordings and songs stretches back over a century and comprises the largest, most diverse and culturally rich collection of music ever assembled.
As digital technology refashions the world, our unmatched commitment to lead in developing new services, platforms and business models for the delivery of music and related content empowers innovators and allows new commercial and artistic opportunities to flourish.
Knowing that music, a powerful force for good in the world, is unique in its ability to inspire people and bring them together, we work with our artists and employees to serve our communities.
We are the home for music’s greatest artists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
Together, we are UMG, the Universal Music Group.