Music Curator

**About Beatport**

For over 15 years, Beatport has been the global leader in DJ and Club Culture, pushing the boundaries of dance music to all corners of the world. Created by DJs for DJs, Beatport has always been dedicated to innovating new products and services to support evolving generations of music performers and producers.

Working at Beatport, you’ll have the unique opportunity to work for an industry-defining brand in a professionally structured start-up environment where employees work within highly collaborative teams across the globe on products and services that change how DJs and fans experience music.

Like our audience, we are global. Locations can be found in Denver, LA, Berlin, and the UK.

The Beatport Group includes some of the best-known brands in DJ culture: _Beatport, Beatsource, Loopmasters, Plugin Boutique, Loopcloud and Beatport LINK_. We consistently look for bright, creative professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Whether your dream job dream is currently listed below or not, please introduce yourself if you believe you’d be a great addition to our team, who are as excited as we are to continue revolutionising the ecosystem that empowers DJs and creators to be successful at their craft.

**The Role**

As a Curator at Beatport you are managing the community for the **Progressive House, Trance**. You are responsible for best enabling our customers and users to find the music they are looking for and even the music they don’t know they are looking for in a timely & efficient way. You will ensure that the best content possible is easily found by visitors.

**Job responsibilities**:
Be the face of your community:

- Engaging in the electronic music community as an ambassador of Beatport to build relationships with labels and artists of your genres and promote the beatport brand. This includes going to music related events, workshops, festivals etc.
- Portraying your genre’s culture (behavior/language/copywriting) back to the marketing department for social media content and communications and approving it before posting.
- Finding new labels before other competitors and work hand in hand with the label team to reach out and onboard new labels vital for specific genres.
- Finding and discovering new talent & artists and work with artist team to develop a relationship and help them grow an artist profile before they get bigger and work with our competition.

**At Beatport, you will**:

- Perform daily site updates and monitor your assigned genres showcasing the most relevant and impactful releases, charts, labels, and artists.
- Build expertly curated charts based on the different types of themes from Marketing Campaigns.
- Consistently assign newly encoded music to the correct genre and ensure all other content is correctly assigned. Prioritize to ensure top producing labels and artists are encoded correctly before going live.
- Write playlist description copy. Occasionally provide editorial reviews of new releases and occasionally contribute features to our news site.
- Use analytics tools to monitor activity, drive merchandising decisions, and report out weekly to management.
- Take ownership for all curation related issues. Work with Product Owners to address any programming issues.
- Collaborating with label and artist teams regarding priority releases and selection of artists that fit the Beatport brand to various feature formats.
- Curating the LINK website with charts from artists, labels & the curation team.
- Reallocating music content to its correct music genre.

**Qualifications**

**Desired Skills**:

- Must have specialist knowledge of dance music, electronic music, and DJ culture as well as an extensive background in the music industry
- Must have organization and administrative skills
- Must be able to use Excel and know how to interpret statistical data, generate reports, and charts
- Speak fluent English
- Copywriting, marketing, and social media experience.
- Some journalist experience
- We are looking for someone based in the Berlin area.
- Able to work in a multi-cultural team with an inclusive mindset.

**How to apply**:
Please send a resume and links to any work samples.

**Benefits**:
We offer a responsible and exciting proposal with an international range. The position is within a highly motivated team with a positive working climate that will allow you to express your talent fully. In addition, we offer appropriate remuneration and excellent development chances within a dynamically growing enterprise. Beyond this, the position provides an intensive integration into the international music scene and the metropolitan city of London.
- Remote work options
- A professional environment with room for creativity and fun
- VIP Access to select music events & Livestreams
- Focus Days
- Flexible PTO
- Workers' Compensation

**Equal Employment Opportunity**:
Beatport strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of r