A&R Director, Secretly Group

Title: A&R Director Secretly Group

Status: Full-time

Hours: 40/week Monday - Friday 9am-6pm

Location: Los Angeles CA

Reports to: VP of A&R

Company Summary: Secretly Group is a leading independently owned music company. Its major divisions include record labels Dead Oceans Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian and music publisher Secretly Publishing. Headquartered in Bloomington Indiana Secretly Group also maintains offices in Brooklyn London Los Angeles and Chicago. Founded in 1996 its roster counts Bon Iver Phoebe Bridgers Chanel Beads Mitski Angel Olsen Japanese Breakfast Sharon Van Etten Unknown Mortal Orchestra Claud MUNA Baby Rose Slowdive and Khruangbin among others. Secretly Publishing artist and writer partners include Chanel Beads Wednesday Panchiko Durand Jones Tamino Aaron Frazer Jason Molina MJ Lenderman Neil Frances Molchat Doma as well as the publishing catalogs of affiliates Songs Of Numero Group and Ghostly Songs.

Position Summary: Secretly Group is seeking an individual for an A&R position working out of the label groups Los Angeles CA office. Primary duties include scouting and signing artists to the company at all levels of the developmental spectrum and developing strong relationships with artists producers writers managers and lawyers.

Responsibilities:

• Awareness of emerging artists and signing new artists to Dead Oceans Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian.
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the A&R team and championing new artists
• Collaborating with artists on the story visual language campaign rollout and

post-release momentum.

• Working with internal teams (project managers marketing digital and radio) to

communicate artists vision.

• Point person and resource for management and artists.
• Administrative responsibilities may include A&R reports preparing deal memos managing delivery checklists and budgets coordinating A&R meetings placing invoices gathering streaming data managing a database of unsigned artists and more.

The Ideal Candidate Demonstrates:

• High level of integrity accountability work ethic communication time management and teamwork skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with an ability to prioritize.
• At least 3 years experience working in the music industry (record label publishermanagement company booking agency etc.) with proven success in that role.
• Excellence within both the creative and administrative aspects of the role.
• Experience working with artists (performers songwriters producers etc) in a creative space.
• A track record for discovering & nurturing new artists as well as a vision for how to maintain successful careers for them.
• Knowledge & passion of the musical landscape/marketplace spanning across multiple genres.
• Extensive network within all levels of developing music including managers labels lawyers songwriters and producers.
• Familiarity with label group roster.

SG Services Inc. Benefits

• Paid holidays including end of the year closure
• Paid Time Off policy which includes a separate Sick Days bank
• 401K with corporate matching
• 12 weeks for parental leave after birth or adoption paid at 100% of salary
• Commuter Benefit
• Volunteer Hours Matching Policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical Health insurance covered at 100% for employee-only medical premiums
• Dental & Vision insurance

Salary $85800.00

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability protected veteran status age race creed color religion sex marital status affectional or sexual orientation gender identity or expression ancestry nationality or national origin.

Required Experience:

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