Chief Music Curator

The Role

• Develop a strategic vision for music programming that aligns with business goals and resonates with the target audience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including music acquisition, marketing, product, and data analytics to curate high-quality content.
• Lead a team of curators and editors, providing guidance on curation decisions and ensuring consistency across multiple genres and formats.

Key Responsibilities

• Content Strategy & Curation: Define the overall music programming strategy, develop editorial calendars, and ensure genre/mood/topic coverage aligns with business goals.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Lead a team of curators and playlist editors, work closely with other teams, and guide curation based on content gaps, data insights, or upcoming product features.
• User & Market Insights: Understand the needs of core users, leverage data and analytics to inform curation decisions, and keep up with content trends across platforms.
• Campaigns & Discovery: Drive thematic campaigns, optimize playlist placements, and coordinate with marketing for artist spotlights and new release pushes.
• Content Performance Monitoring: Track how playlists and curated collections perform, test and iterate based on what's working or not, and maintain a product mindset.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience in music programming, editorial curation, or content strategy at a music-tech company, DSP, media platform, or similar.
• Strong understanding of music genres, moods, and social media use cases.
• Proven ability to lead curation initiatives across multiple genres and formats, with a keen sense of music discovery and audience needs.
• Comfortable working with data to make content decisions; experience interpreting dashboards or using tools like Mixpanel is a plus.
• Excellent communication and project management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, campaigns, and curation calendars.