Producer

Job Description

Music is Universal

It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email [redacted]

The A Side: A Day in The Life

Universal Production Music, a division of Universal Music Publishing Group, is a leading global production music library, providing music for all commercial content platforms.

Universal Production Music has a heritage that has developed over decades into a diverse and comprehensive catalogue of unparalleled depth and breadth with an ambition is to maintain its position as an industry leader. We pride ourselves on producing quality music and developing creative ideas to promote our library, composers, labels & innovative tools to our clients.

As Producer at Universal Production Music your primary role will be to executive produce and project manage albums for the production music catalogue from conception to release, created with the purpose of being synced on TV, advertising and other media. You will be part of a team of producers releasing content for Universal’s UK owned labels, including Atmosphere, Bruton, Chappell & Focus.

In addition to producing, you will manage the relationships with our joint venture labels, working closely with our partnerships team to build strong connections with our partners.

You will also spearhead our repertoire initiatives, ranging from green production, championing diversity and developing our offering in non-traditional markets, such as wellness.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Creative

• Devise and conceptualise album briefs
• Provide clear and concise creative feedback to composers on demos
• Manage recording sessions
• Proactively research and identify current music trends and gaps in the catalogue
• Be innovative in developing ideas to improve repertoire offering

Be Organised

• Project management with ownership and accountability of your work
• Work to deadlines, ensuring repertoire is produced, mastered & released on time
• Spearhead company repertoire initiatives and projects

Be Collaborative

• Be a team player who can integrate well with the wider production music team, working with other areas of the business when required
• Work closely with the partnerships team to maintain strong relationships with our joint venture labels
• Manage existing relationships with our composer & songwriter roster and proactively build new ones
• Act as ambassador for the production team in client facing meetings as required

Be Analytical

• Provide an analytical approach to listening to and reviewing audio
• Utilize data to help inform on new content to create

Personal Specification

Essential

• Proven experience of briefing composers and producing music for media at a production music, sync, broadcasting or production company
• Ability to confidently communicate feedback to composers
• Knowledge of music recording & production techniques and
• A passion and in depth understanding of the music and media business
• A broad interesting in music across a wide variety of styles & genres
• Methodical, thorough and process driven with immaculate attention to detail
• Ability to manage a large workload working across many albums simultaneously

Desirable

• Degree-level qualification in music, media or closely related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
• Experience in metadata taxonomy and tagging of music
• Experience working with DAWs, such as Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton
• Experience working with project management tools, such as [redacted]

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 paid days of annual leave
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Dental and Travel Insurance options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Cars
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know…

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder’s specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.