Artist Relations Manager Jobs

Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for an Artist Relations Manager to join UnitedMasters!

What You'll Do

• Clearly communicate our value proposition to the artist community.
• Build and evolve scripts that implement one voice across the artist community.
• Align with Music Team to ensure seamless communication across the artist ecosystem.
• Responsible for courting, building, and maintaining UM's relationships with 80/20 Partner artists and other stakeholders interacting with the UM product to make sure they take full advantage of UM's growing suite of offerings.
• Identify underserved areas that our products need to support. Feature solutions and recommendations.
• Support outreach for brand opportunities and other promotions for non-white-glove artists.
• Ideate future features that will help drive artist independence. Help define product requirements that will feed into future product roadmap.
• Serve as the primary liaison with the UnitedMasters distributed artists.
• Collaborate with Customer Service teams to align messaging for the company's communication portals.
• Gather artist feedback on product priorities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels and take initiative to build productive relationships, internally and externally.
• Ability to quickly understand new technologies and complex concepts quickly.
• Ability to explain technology and business concepts as well as articulate development status and challenges between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Innovative thinker who challenges the status quo and presents ideas for efficient or more productive workflow.
• Knowledge of trends and key stakeholders within the music business, a plus

Minimum Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in marketing, relationship management, project management, or a related field.
• Curious to a fault, always looking beyond wants and desires, finding only value add opportunities.
• Experience in a role that requires coordination, attention to detail and thoroughness. Experience in the entertainment business is a plus but not required.

About UnitedMasters

UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others. Over the last year, UnitedMasters artists have used our platform to land sync deals with major brands including the NBA, ESPN, Overtime Elite, Bose, Warner Brother Studios and in the NBA video game 2k. These deals give them additional money for their work and increase their exposure.

Salary Hiring Range: $60,000 - $70,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.

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