Sony Music Entertainment is seeking an Associate Director/Director, A&R Research to find recording artists and songs using analytical tools and data, along with gut instinct A&R and ears. The role will be responsible for organizing and evaluating new artist submissions, searching for potential new talent, and working with the Sony analytics team to develop queries and dashboards.
Requirements
- Organize and evaluate new artist submissions
- Actively search blogs, social media, and charts for potential new talent
- Attend local shows and industry showcases and report back to supervisor
- Work through distribution deal negotiations and signings with BA
- Research and evaluate new music performance using a variety of internal and external platforms
- Monitor social media, charts, music blogs, and digital magazines for music premieres and top chart/playlist placements
- Generate weekly reports to brief team on artists of interest
- Work with the Sony analytics team to develop queries, dashboards, and other identification tool
- Create artist-specific reports detailing audience growth and consumption relative to similar artists
- Compile and monitor stream count and social media metrics for priority artists
- Identify and interpret relevant data in the context of the current music landscape
- Assess and summarize tendencies in consumption source across genres/subgenres
- Proactively identify additional areas for analysis and identification of new artists
- Track global independent artists and labels, identify potential partnership opportunities
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage
- 401K + employer matching
- Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
