Music Editor - Russian Market

Job description

MUSIC EDITOR - FLUENT AND IDIOMATIC ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN ESSENTIAL
Duration 11 months

My client being a global technology company is looking for a Music Editor - Russian language, for an 11 month temporary assignment.

As a Music Editor, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to contribute to the  
Music editorial team of the company's online entertainment platform. You have experience working as a playlist curator, music journalist or critic, or editor for a digital music service. Additionally, you are well-versed in a wide range of music genres -- from mainstream to niche -- and have an expert-level understanding of contemporary popular culture. 

You bring strong analytical abilities and impeccable oral and written communication skills. You 
possess a high degree of comfort and flexibility when working cross-functionally with product, 
design, marketing, engineering, and other teams to develop an innovative user experience. You 
enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to develop new ideas and scalable 
processes. You bring a proven ability to prioritise, meet critical deadlines, and take on 
challenging tasks with enthusiasm and a problem-solving mindset.

Responsibilities 

- Create, commission and QA playlists 
- Maintain the platform's editorial calendar for the Russian market 
- Data entry for monitoring performance of playlists and campaigns 
- Contribute to the improvement of back catalogue selection and metadata quality 
- Identify and drive co-promotion or cross-promotion opportunities with internal and external 
- partners 
- Conduct metrics-based analysis of playlist performance and provide recommendations for 
- enhancing their effectiveness 
- Support partner and technical teams to troubleshoot user-facing issues 
- Work with Engineering to ensure all titles in programming plans are ordered and ingested. 
- Participate in regular meetings with content partners, in order to identify editorial opportunities 
- Contribute to the platform's global editorial team and its efforts to drive site improvements and 
- innovative features on behalf of users worldwide 

Requirements 

- BA/BSc required. Advanced degree a plus. 
- Ability to speak and write in English and Russian fluently and idiomatically 
- Experience in an editorial/merchandising role for a mobile or online digital content business 
- Deep knowledge and understanding of the music industry and Russian culture 
- Strong editorial and creative skills -- ability to craft messaging and work with design and 
- production resources to drive creative execution 
- Strong analytical skills; ability to analyze research or performance data and apply that 
- analysis to optimize our editorial strategy 
- Experience working with both external and internal partners on co-promotion or cross- 
- promotion strategies and campaigns 
- Knowledge of and experience with online best practices 
- High attention to detail, ability to maintain several different projects simultaneously, while 
- creating precise and effective customer-facing communications 

Preferred qualifications:

A European language other than English and Russian
Experience working for a music streaming service

If this is you please apply to Andree McNamara with your cv in Word format.