Artist Relations Manager

Overview

United Masters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans—empowering artists to earn and grow. The company disrupts the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of United Masters’ music distribution platform and its ties to brands, United Masters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The United Masters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from You Tube, Sound Cloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for an Artist Relations Manager to join United Masters. This role is based in Brooklyn, New York with four days in-office and one day remote.

• Court, build, and maintain relationships with 80/20 Partner artists and other stakeholders interacting with the UM product to ensure they take full advantage of UM's growing suite of offerings.
• Gather artist feedback on product priorities.
• Identify underserved areas that our products need to support through feature solutions and recommendations.
• Ideate future product features that will help drive artist independence. Help define product requirements that will feed into future product roadmap.
• Clearly communicate our value proposition to the artist community.
• Align with the Music Team to ensure seamless communication across United Masters’ artist ecosystem in a unified brand voice, including by building and iterating on scripts.

• Demonstrated ability to credibly communicate, present and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to proactively build productive relationships internally and externally.
• Innovative thinker who challenges the status quo and presents ideas for efficient or more productive workflow.
• Ability to explain tech and business concepts as well as articulate development status and challenges between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to quickly understand new technologies and complex concepts.
• Incredibly curious and solutions-oriented, driven to find value-added opportunities.

• 2-3 years of experience in marketing, relationship management, project management, customer success or a related field.
• Experience in a role that requires coordination, attention to detail and thoroughness.

• Knowledge of trends and key stakeholders within the music business.
• Experience in the entertainment business.

United Masters represents the creative solutions company Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, United Masters. United Masters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth. Combined, United Masters is the world’s leading marketplace for cultural capital, connecting independent artists and brands to realize a future in which all creators own their future.

Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple, United Masters is reimagining how brands and artists come together to tell their stories, build profitable growth, and push culture forward.

$70,000 - $85,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.). Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.

If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate. The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.