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About the Role

Sollos is Universal Music's leading audio-wellness venture, creating music and soundscapes engineered to help people focus, relax, and sleep. We combine music from the world's best artists with cutting-edge research into cognitive science and psychoacoustics. We are seeking an exceptional individual to help develop music and audio for health and wellness, bringing expertise and commitment to meet our technical and creative standards.

Responsibilities

Play an active, vital role in delivering content through our science-led curation pipeline.
Apply rigorous QC processes to ensure music, audio, and metadata meet technical specifications.
Use mixing & compositional techniques to blend auditory beats with music across a wide range of genres.
Produce wellness remixes and collaborate with artists to produce bespoke compositions.
Review repertoire against scientific criteria to select suitable tracks for curation.
Provide constructive feedback on work commissioned from producers, mix and mastering engineers.
Deliver work of the highest standard with access to professional studios when required.
Support the Audio, Science and ML teams with R&D and asset creation and/or collation.
Work alongside AI researchers and engineers to build requirements and test our latest audio innovations.
Populate, query, and maintain Sollos’ database with meticulous care and attention.
Ensure delivery of assets against commercial deadlines and manage archiving processes.

Requirements

Must have strong professional experience in music production as audio engineer, composer, and/or producer.
Demonstrable expertise in audio editing, composition, sound design, mixing, and mastering.
Deep knowledge of technical audio principles, synthesis, acoustics, and the physics of sound.
Advanced user of Ableton Live with good working knowledge of popular DAWs and audio plugins.
Musician or music creator with solid understanding of music theory.
Obsessed with sound, technology, and music and driven to achieve the highest standards in these fields.
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
Meticulous attention to detail.
Extremely well-organised, ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines.
Competent IT experience.
Academic, personal, or on-the-job training in audio, music, or related STEM subject.
Professional experience or demonstrable interest in Audio R&D and/or AI/ML.
Solid grasp of fundamentals in DSP, Audio & Music AI, Spatial Audio.
Interest in cognitive science, music therapy, and/or music for wellness and productivity.
Experience querying relational databases and using data analysis tools.
Coding experience and/or comfortable using command line tools.
Experience in a music curation or supervision role.
Experience in agile teams using project management tools such as JIRA, Shortcut.
Experience collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams.
Strong track record across the full lifecycle of projects, proving the ability to communicate with business stakeholders, understand business pain points, and be able to take responsibility for the day-to-day management of tech projects.
Pro-active approach, by pre-empting business stakeholders’ needs or concerns and identifying and communicating the best way to address these.
Patience, diplomacy, critical thinking and persistence are required for all project phases.

Skills

Music production
Audio engineering
Composition
Audio editing
Sound design
Mixing
Mastering
Technical audio principles
Synthesis
Acoustics
Physics of sound
Ableton Live
DAWs
Audio plugins
Music theory
Collaboration
Communication
Attention to detail
Organisation
Prioritisation
Time management
IT competency
Audio R&D
AI/ML
DSP
Audio & Music AI
Spatial Audio
Cognitive science
Music therapy
Music for wellness
Music for productivity
Database querying
Data analysis
Coding
Command line tools
Music curation
Music supervision
Agile methodologies
JIRA
Shortcut
Project management

About the Company

We are Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company.
We are the home for 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 also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully 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.