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.

The A Side: A Day in The Life

Sollos is Universal Music's leading audio-wellness venture. We combine music and audio from the world’s best artists with cutting edge research into cognitive science and psychoacoustics, to create music and soundscapes which have been specifically engineered to help people focus, relax and sleep.

We curate tracks from Universal Music’s world-class roster of artists, using a rigorous science-backed criteria to assess the audio’s suitability to support better focus, relaxation and sleep. Our in-house audio engineers then use a proprietary algorithm to add special sound waves: auditory beats or coloured noise. Scientific research has shown that these sound waves can help improve mood and enhance cognition. We call these additives ‘sound supplements’ — you may not even notice them, but they’re there to infuse our music with extra goodness.

We license our audio to some of the world’s biggest brands to improve the quality of life of millions of people by helping them to focus, relax and sleep better.

Universal Music is actively exploring innovations in how music and cognitive science can be combined to support health and wellness. We seek an individual who brings expertise to meet the technical and creative standards required to blend our sound supplements with the world’s best music, and help us experiment in developing music and audio for health and wellness.

In this role you will be expected too:

• Test music content against technical specifications

• Ensure a high level of quality control around audio and metadata

• Edit audio to blend our sound supplements with music, utilising mixing & compositional techniques to our technical specifications

• Create wellness remixes of existing tracks

• Support the Audio, Science and ML teams with R&D and asset creation and/or collation

• Support asset management activities including; timely delivery of assets against commercial deadlines, storage & archiving processes

The B Side: Skills & Experience

• Professional / Semi-professional experience as an audio engineer and composer or producer

• Professional / Semi-professional experience in mixing and mastering processes and tools

• Proficient at an advanced level in at least one of the following DAWs: ProTools, Logic and/or Ableton.

• A background in creating music and understanding of music theory

• Good understanding of waveform theory and synthesis

• Interest in cognitive science and music for wellness

• Exceptional collaboration skills

• Good communication skills, both oral and written 

• Excellent attention to detail

• Needs to be extremely well-organised

• Competent IT experience. This should include Microsoft Office, Data Archiving and Asset Management technologies

• Ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines

• Good knowledge across music genres and artists across time periods (not essential)

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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