About the Role
This is a hands-on, mentorship-driven internship program designed to teach how an independent label builds campaigns, grows audiences, and discovers new artists. Interns will gain exposure to real release cycles and complete a supervised capstone project.
Responsibilities
- Support content calendars and posting workflows
- Pitch short-form concepts for TikTok/Reels/Shorts
- Track performance metrics and summarize learnings
- Research creators, trends, and partnership opportunities
- Support campaign timelines, rollout planning, and asset organization
- Research comps, fan/audience insights, and culture moments relevant to releases
- Help assemble internal decks and post-campaign recaps
- Assist with coordination across creative, digital, and distribution
Requirements
- Strong interest in music, culture, and emerging artists
- Excellent organization + clear communication
- Proactive, collaborative, and reliable
- Familiarity with Spotify/Apple Music + TikTok/Instagram/YouTube tools
- Currently enrolled and able to receive academic credit through your institution
Skills
- Short-form content creation
- Performance metric tracking
- Creator research
- Trend analysis
- Partnership opportunity research
- Campaign timeline support
- Rollout planning
- Asset organization
- Competitive analysis
- Audience insight research
- Culture moment research
- Deck assembly
- Post-campaign recap creation
- Cross-functional coordination
- CapCut
- Premiere
- Final Cut
- Canva
- Adobe
- Writing
- Plalisting
- DJing
- Producing
- Music community participation
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Internship
- Educational experience
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- Currently enrolled and able to receive academic credit
Benefits
- Weekly check-ins + mentorship from label staff
- Exposure to real release cycles
- Supervised capstone project
- Flexible schedule
- Mentorship + exposure to label strategy across marketing
- Opportunities to attend shows/industry events when relevant/available
About the Company
- FADER Label is an independent record label founded in 2002 in New York City.
- Born out of The FADER, the iconic media company that has been a defining voice in emerging music and culture since 1999.
- FADER Label was created to offer artists an alternative that aims to break the rules of the traditional label system.
- Over the years, FADER Label has been home to a range of globally recognized and culture-shaping artists including Clairo, Matt & Kim, Yuna, binki, Slayyyter, Shallou, James Ivy, and Saul Williams.
- Collectively, releases across the label’s catalog have generated billions of streams worldwide, alongside gold and platinum certifications and sold-out tours.
