Director, Music Content & Licensing

Job Description

Based in Montreal, the music business unit of Shutterstock (including leading music licensing brand PremiumBeat) is part of an innovative eCommerce company and a leading provider of high quality, curated royalty-free music for media productions.

The Director, Music Content is a key leader within the content leadership team, responsible for music content strategy and execution. This position manages all aspects of music content production and publishing within the global Shutterstock organization, ensuring that we are effectively sourcing & producing content that meets our global marketplace needs.

This position will oversee a team of content producers and music specialists and will ultimately be an ambassador for music content both internally and externally. This position calls for an experienced creative thinker who operates with decisive operational judgment and the ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute music content strategy and operations in support of customer requirements, revenue goals, business objectives and growth initiatives.
• Manage, lead, develop and mentor teams responsible for music acquisition, production, publishing and marketplace collection integrity.
• Lead PRO revenue growth, process and operations through copyright collection and performance rights assignment processes, supporting positive artist relationships.
• Establish and maintain music publishing and metadata standards, collaborate across product, marketing and search teams to drive content discovery and performance.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales to drive marketplace success and ROI for acquired music, including playlists curation, go-to-market strategies, marketing and sales training.
• Collaborate with product and technology to inform music search, discovery and presentation in support of optimal customer experience and music performance.
• Lead customer and contributor support operations, providing expertise and specialization on questions related to music licensing.
• Develop and own budget and production metrics for content evaluation, processing and publishing; measurable commitments that support strategic initiatives and coverage targets .

Requirements

• Hands-On Approach: You should be sharp, love rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team.
• Domain expertise and enthusiasm for music production with 5+ years of professional experience in music licensing, publishing, or production .
• Strong conversational proficiency and competency in music licensing and concepts: DAWs, mixing, mastering, sound libraries and digital instruments, recording tools, digital asset managers, songwriting, composition.
• Experience recruiting, building and administering creative media teams.
• Strong data analysis skills; ability to capture and visualize production data, demonstrate trends, and present key findings and next actions.
• Experience coordinating output-focused content management operations, with a strong bias for action achieving production goals, managing multiple (and competing) priorities
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills. Must be comfortable with managing artist / business relationships.
• Multilingual and French a plus.

**Will need to complete “listening test”.

About Shutterstock

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK ), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs , vectors , illustrations , videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 750,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 260 million images and more than 14 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock , a value-oriented stock media offering; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform , Offset, a high-end image collection ; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; and Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media.

For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook .

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V