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About the Role

Mercury Studios is a music-first content studio seeking a creative curator and digital content manager to oversee the digital distribution of its growing slate of catalogue and new content across various platforms, with a primary focus on YouTube. You will work directly with the VP of Channel Management to ensure content is curated engagingly for audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead digital curator, creating clips and highlights from the music library for exploitation across digital channels, primarily YouTube.
• Generate and repurpose content from archives for digital distribution.
• Manage the upload schedule for all digital media.
• Develop and create new channel brands with the SVP of Digital Content to grow audience and exploit the music A/V catalogue.
• Collaborate with the VP of Channel Management to build and grow new channels on YouTube and other platforms.
• Manually edit and clip content to populate the MCN with unique short-form video.
• Work with the media team to organize and process the short-form database.
• Support marketing and content teams with creative promotional ideas for new and catalogue content releases.
• Contribute to the global digital content strategy with creative ideas for content formats and channel partnerships.
• Collaborate with the larger UMG digital team to release content across YouTube and beyond.
• Support content aggregation, distribution, and creative strategies for new platforms like FAST and AVOD.
• Monitor digital media trends, platform updates, and best practices.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Channel Manager.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage paid media campaigns.
• Experience clipping their own material.
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail.

Skills

• YouTube certified (a strong asset)

Location

• London
• Los Angeles
• New York

Work Type

• Full-time

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)

About the Company

• Universal Music Group UK is the UK’s leading music-based entertainment company, shaping culture through artistry.
• We help UK artists produce, distribute, and promote critically acclaimed and commercially successful music.
• Mercury Studios is a music-first content studio focused on developing, producing, distributing, and investing in music-rooted storytelling.
• We operate editorially independently from Universal, collaborating with a global network of creatives and artists in premium factual Film & TV, concert capture, performance-led content, shortform, and audio.
• Mercury Studios manages a vast catalogue of music-related content, including thousands of hours of premium music-driven film and television programming.
• Our Distribution and Content Sales team has over 20 years of experience licensing music-driven content worldwide to various platforms.
• We are Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company and home to music’s greatest artists, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

Equal Opportunity

• 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 recognise the importance of diversity of thought and are 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 UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.