Music Manager: Rock/Pop

About the Company:

Ribo Music (RM) is a social media platform that providesemergingmusical artists resources and opportunities to reach broader and larger audiences while delivering the support and guidance that they desperately need. We offer an all- encompassingpackage for new artists, where they can stream, sell music and merchandise, get radio play, be promoted, book shows, raise money through our NFT marketplace and get hands on help all under one roof.The platform will provide artists “white glove” service by helping them maximize the benefits of the RM platform, promotion and audience growth strategies.

RM will meet the demands of both the artists and audience, by creating our own 360° music marketplace. We will market ourselves to reach aspiring artists. When we find exceptional material, we will offer those artists; mentoring, assist in their promotion, provide a platform to sell their music. We will also hyper-focus on providing their fans access to even more great artists and the ability to further expand their passion for music.

We will monitor the release on all streaming channels and work to help artists get better shows and create a larger fan base.Our primary revenue streams will be: Membership, Downloads, and eventually, advertising, merchandising, NFT marketplace, publishing, and bookings.We enable music fans to easily discover new music and share it within their social groups. In order to find new music, people are at the mercy of streaming algorithms or have to go out to a localclub. RM’s platform provides a compelling alternative for fans to discover and experience the best emerging artists without having to navigate cluttered tags/metadata or wait through miscategorized tracks to find their new favorite gem. Our audience will have access to high-quality new music that is not available on any other platform, presented in an easy to assimilate manner.

About the Role:

The DivisionalManager(Genre Manager)is a senior leadership position reporting to the VP of Music Operations of RM. The selected candidate will be responsible fortheir staff,implementing and ordeveloping all strategies fordevelopment of artists within theRock/Pop/Punk/Metal/EDMGenre this will includemarketing including, digital marketing, social media,bookings,videos, podcasts, and technical assistanceand promotion.

TheGenre Manager will be supported by a staff of: Artist Acquisition specialists, who find highly talentedartists, ArtistDevelopment Reps who work 1 on 1 with artists in a management role, Social Media Marketing specialists, Booking Agents, a program designed to garner radio play named Semi-Pro Radio,Specialists in Legal, Accounting, Video, Sync Licensing, IT, Crypto Currency, as well as part of a major advertising campaign to promote our brand.

More details on theGenre’ Manager Role:

RM will launch with 5 broad genres’ that are labeled as Rap/Urban, Country, Pop, Rock and Punk/Ska. The staff in each genre’ will includeAA’sto acquire artists, ADR that develop artists and 15% of our in-house Social Media team’s workload.RM has identified a need for each of thegenresto have a manager to pilot the department, while having a finger on the pulse of the market. The role of Genre’ Manager (GRM) will be to direct and administrate the AA & ADR group to assure that goals/quotas are met. GRM’s will contribute to their genres’ in-house marketing efforts as it pertains to artists andRM Brand. The genre’ based Semi-Pro Radio show will be created by the GMR using artists from theRM platform only. The GRM’s will come under the purview of the VP of Operations, while functioning with the Marketing Director to assist in with messaging and HR Director for its departmental staffing.

Responsibilities Include:

•Staffing & training of AA’s & ADR’s

•Create & disseminate overall dept goals with measured metrics

•Approve new artist recommendations for AA’s

•Produce genre based Semi-Pro Radio show weekly

•Contribute to social media messaging for the genre

•Report results to VP of Operations monthly

Candidate Requirements

•5 years minimum experience at a label or digital music company working in A&R, Artist Marketing, Radio Promo, Publishing, Distribution and/or Artist Management.

•Bachelor Degree preferred but music industry experience a must.

•Up to date working knowledge of genres’ artists and social media platforms.

•Genre’ specific industry contacts such as Artist Managers, Producers, Talent Agents, etc.

•Previous corporate management exp a plus+++