Music Curator, Amazon Music Canada

Job Title: Music Curator for Amazon Music - Canada

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent and a minimum of 4+ years experience.
2. Analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
3. Expertise of the Canadian music scene across new music and catalog.
4. Proven success in delivering results in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment.
5. The ability to influence and collaborate with external partners.
6. Project management skills, including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meetings.

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts to concert livestreams, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service.

Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Our Team is looking for an experienced professional to define and push forward our music programming strategy for Canada. The Music Curator for Amazon Music will support driving customer engagement through the creation and maintenance of playlists, stations and related curatorial tasks crucial to the quality of the Amazon Music customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Deliver high quality music programming, including playlists and stations.
2. Use data to continuously refine our content offering to ensure a fresh and compelling user experience for customers.
3. Expertise in Canadian music, trends and local nuances.
4. Identify artist and music priorities with Artist & Label Relations teams to support and feature.
5. Work with global teams to export Canadian music around the world.
6. Drive improvements of tools and techniques required to support a growing curated music offering.
7. Enhance the team's operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks, freeing up time for strategic and high-impact work.
8. Collaborate with other curation teams around the world to share your expertise and learn from them.
9. Work with external stakeholders to build deep relationships in the music industry.
10. Execute a continuous content improvement process.

About the Team:

The Amazon Music team in Canada is focused on igniting fandom with our customers and finding new fans for artists domestically and globally. We work to connect the dots between Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks, and work across the industry and the wider Amazon business to build best-in-class campaigns and initiatives.

Additional Qualifications:

1. A deep network in the Canadian music industry.
2. French verbal and written communication skills.
3. Experience at a record label, publisher, DSP; or programming, radio or music curation.
4. Creative thinking, the ability to deal with ambiguity, and relentlessly high standards.

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