Sr Music Curator

Job Description

Job summary

Our Team is looking for an experienced professional to define and push forward our music programming strategy for Colombia. The Sr Music Curator for Amazon Music will support driving customer engagement through the creation and maintenance of playlists and streaming radio stations and related curatorial tasks crucial to the quality of the Amazon Music customer experience.

This Sr Music Curator will set a path towards iteration and improvement by learning about our customers and their behavior through the collection and analysis of data, and will work closely with the Content Acquisition, Marketing, and Label Relations teams on customer and partner-facing initiatives. The Music Curator will also work with Product and Engineering teams to ensure that both internal and external experiences are best-in-class.

Key job responsibilities
• Deliver high quality music programming, including playlists and stations.
• Create and manage a rolling editorial calendar.
• Execute a continuous content improvement process.
• Drive improvements of tools and techniques required to support a growing curated music offering.
• Work with the Content Licensing and Label Relations teams to identify content to include in the service.
• Use data to continuously refine our content offering to ensure a fresh and compelling user experience for each customer.
• Collaborate with other curation teams around the world to share your expertise and learn from them.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Fluency in both English and Spanish
• 5+ years in work experience in radio programming, A&R, music curation, and running an editorial calendar.
• Proven expertise on Colombian music scene.
• Proven success in delivering results in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
• Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities.
• Ability to set aside one's own tastes and biases to curate music for a broad audience.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Relentlessly high standards.
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically.
• Flexible and nimble, able to swiftly react to a shifting landscape.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• BS/BA Preferred
• Experience working across cultures and languages.
• Deep knowledge across multiple genres of Colombian and Latin American music.
• Knowledge of current trends and history in music and the music industry.
• Exceptional interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Thinks big and has conviction.
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others.
• Technical aptitude and agility to learn web-based tools; knowledge of SQL a plus.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb81ey-3-129-194-130-42 in your application.