Job Description
Job Vacancy: Asset Operations - Song Sleuth (Sri Lanka based)
Do you care about music? Perhaps you have a band or a singer that you've been a fan of since day one. Would you like to help your favourite artists and performers get paid fairly for their work? At Song Sleuth, we believe that a healthy music industry is one in which all musicians, songwriters and rights holders are paid fairly and correctly for their music.
Go to any music concert these days, and you will likely see a sea of smartphones recording people's favourite artists performing their biggest hits. Often, fans will upload their concert videos to online platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. This is known as 'user-generated content'. While some of these videos and other forms of UGC, such as tutorials, remixes, edits - are captured by existing content ID systems, many of them are currently being missed. This means that the artists are not getting paid as they should be for videos that feature their IP and copyright.
Song Sleuth is a music technology company that is solving this issue of unclaimed videos online, and helping artists and rights holders get paid correctly. We work with record labels, music publishers, artist managers, and others to help them find uses of their music in public platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, TikTok, and more.
You'll work with music industry and tech company veterans to help build Al technology that allows musicians to earn the money they are owed from videos containing their music. Our proprietary platform leverages music theory, music business/rights expertise, and cutting edge machine learning powered by significant data science work. All of these things are necessary to find content, understand the music within it, and claim it on behalf of our music rights holders partners.
What you'll do
- You'll work within Song Sleuth's architecture to validate assets that are produced by our system for subsequent claiming across YouTube and other online platforms.
- You'll validate assets, which involves listening to (and validating claims against) a lot of music across genres, with a focus on live music recordings.
- You'll give feedback to the Engineering and Development teams on potential workflow improvements.
- You'll learn from others, self-teach, and teach others
- You'll be joining a dynamic and expanding team of passionate engineers, operations specialists, leading marketing professionals, and top-tier business developers. Our team is known for its intelligence, kindness, sense of humour, and a great passion for music and the music industry.
Essential Requirements
- We're looking for critical and active thinkers with an appreciation for music across genres, a can-do attitude and great attention to detail.
- Applicants should have excellent written and spoken English and have a degree in an appropriate discipline.
- Other must-have requirements: reliable internet connection; ergonomic workspace; the ability to travel to Colombo for a few weeks if we decide to conduct in-person training.
- Ideally, you have:
- Strong written and verbal communications skills in English language Drive to solve complex problems with positive energy and attitude
- An authentic interest in improving business and technological efficiency
- The ability to focus on building for the long term while hitting aggressive business goals/deadlines
- A passion for music
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Good knowledge of Google Workspace, Slack, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Microsoft Excel
- Flexibility to work in different time zones on occasion (Song Sleuth has offices in the U.S., London and Lisbon)
Salary
This role is remote and is paid in Euros as our company is headquartered in Europe. We offer a gross salary of 400 euros per month for the first three months (including one month of training and two months to get fully up to speed). After the third month, the salary will increase to 500 euros gross per month, with the potential to earn up to 600 euros gross per month based on on- target performance.
Additional 30 euro per month contribution for your home electric bill.
To apply
Send your CV and a short cover letter to [email protected]
Please note: a short covering letter is essential to your application (applications without a cover letter will not be considered).
