TV Music Creative Trainee, SPT – Summer 2026

PROGRAM DETAILS

SPE Trainee:

Our Emerging Talent Programs which include Interns Trainees and Finance Rotational Associates offer unique opportunities for students recent graduates and emerging talent to work alongside the teams that come together to create movies TV shows and other great experiences. These seasonal paid assignments provide meaningful and productive work that builds on your experience and develops your skills further. You will be provided with challenging tasks real-world experience and many educational and social networking opportunities.

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:

The Television Music Creative Department handles all aspects of hiring composers music supervisors songwriters and and any other music personnel for Sony Pictures Television projects. The Department also provides in-house music supervision on certain projects both television productions and any in-house music needs for internal communications. For all SPT productions TV Music Creative receives catalogs and stores all music deliverable assets. When appropriate Music Creative distributes the assets and works with the soundtrack team for any future releases (physical and digital). The Department also oversees budgets licensing playlisting and on-camera performances & works closely with music personnel hired to work on our productions. Music Creative liaises with Music Legal/BA Music Licensing Music Copyright Administration & Soundtrack/Catalog development. Within SPT TV Music Creative works closely with SPT Current & Development SPT BA SPT Production SPT Marketing and SPT Post on all music matters. TV Music Creative also works with music labels music publishers agents managers and independent artists to source talent pre-clear music (including for the departments Indie Drive) and proactively pre-negotiates terms as necessary on behalf of the studio before going to Music Legal/BA and/or Music Licensing to facilitate them entering into final contract negotiations. SPT Music also assists SPT Marketing and occasionally SPTI on any music needs they may have.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities for the prospective intern include but is not limited to: working on the DISCO platform for music submissions for productions & for TV Music Creatives Indie Drive repository; making sure the appropriate metadata is included on said music submissions and confirms both completeness and accuracy of the information; working with the Music Creative team on data entry and retrieval of information within the the Music Affairs Groups MAGIC program; help with music deliverables; do any necessary music historical research; update and input music within the departments music libraries (digital & physical); shadow the department team at creative music meetings including those with TV Production composers music supervisors studio personnel & production executives and attends TV Teams with the Music Affairs Group. The prospective intern will take part in any creative music searches and when applicable attend any spotting and mix sessions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The prospective intern must be a junior or senior in an undergraduate level program with a major in any of the following areas: Music Music Business Music Law Communications Broadcasting Television & Film Production.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The candidate should have a strong knowledge of music (all genres as well as knowledge of composers in the video game film & television spaces). Experience in TV / Film production is a plus but not mandatory. Proficiency in programs such as DISCO MS Word MS Excel MS PowerPoint Adobe & the ability to work with both Mac and PC based applications is a plus.

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