Music Director Job Description
Music director
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Music Director Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Identifies new music talent and oversees the acquisition of new music content including music videos
Is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with labels, agencies, management companies, publishers, talent bookers etc
Is responsible for keeping abreast of music and pop culture trends worldwide and crafting appropriate strategies and tactics for MTV World
Works closely with ad sales, business, development, editorial, production, marketing, social and digital teams to create and execute programs
Identifies and books talent- both music and otherwise for MTV World music and series productions
Oversees creation of a library of music and other types of content, cleared for global multi-platform use
Oversees the creation of legal documents that enable us to do the above
Identifies programming and production opportunities related to social media
Creates music programing strategy for MTV World consumer sites and digital products series
Builds productive relationship internally and externally to further MTV World business goals
Music Director Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Music Director
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPI, CPR, PMP
Education for Music Director
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the music director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Music, Education, Music Education, Communications, Graduate, Teaching, Management, Business, Arts, Leadership
Skills for Music Director
Desired skills for music director include:
FCC rules and regulations
Topics/events related to on-air discussions
Subject matter that facilitates speaking extemporaneously and providing immediate non-scripted analysis/commentary
FCC broadcast rules and regulations
Diary data analysis
State and local contesting rules and regulations
Musical theater and popular/contemporary music repertoire
Arbitron PPM
FCC rules and requirements
Federal
Desired experience for music director includes:
Secure and approve music cue sheets, and show logs from producers
Work with the QSO Treasurer, in conjunction with the QSO President, Chairman, and General Manager, work in developing budget requirements for the season
Negotiate and quote on master use requests across all medias by gauging the value of the artist/song in the current landscape the Legacy’s desire to promote that artist/song
Proactively reach out to contacts for their creative music needs and consistently update client base new clients on Legacy's new releases, priorities, artists stats, milestone dates
Partner with the Legacy and SYNCSHOP teams to organize events to highlight Legacy's music and artists
Writes and reads, or ad-libs segments to identify station, announce station breaks, commercials
Music Director Examples
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Music Director Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a music director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for music director
- Conducts, records, and edits interviews with musical guests or other famous personalities moderating panels or discussion shows
- Plans and attends in-person appearances such as community events that include hosting and assisting at charity functions
- Maintains and builds a positive cooperative attitude within station departments and maintains strong personable community involvement
- Performs additional duties such as production, assisting program director, operating radio transmitter or writing advertising copy
- Attends music meetings
- Manages talent scheduling and fills in as-needed
- Maintains positive relationships with national & local music communities
- As the key business driver and ambassador in the Music for Business segment, this individual will spend a significant amount of time working in the field with existing VAR’s developing new leads and will be required to travel
- Leverage industry relationships and contacts to recruit top talent for the editorial team and identify partnership opportunities with other music sites for traffic driving, content sharing
- Monitor and ensure that music supervisors are following preset guidelines such as making sure fees are negotiated properly, songs are cleared according to Warner Bros
Qualifications for music director
- Voice-track as required for Country 105, Energy 99.7, and 91.9 BOB FM
- Day to day music scheduling for Country 105
- Daily and weekly Cancon reports
- Ongoing communication with record companies
- Voice commercials on a daily basis
- Represent the station by making regular public appearances in the community
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a music director. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for music director
- Leveraging Scrum and other Agile approaches to facilitate cross-team delivery
- Working with Product Management and Technology to perform discovery, estimation, prioritization and documentation
- Managing a staff of 2-4 Project Managers (staff and consultant) and assigning them appropriately
- Mentoring project management staff and conducting performance evaluations
- Reviewing and approving staff, contract, and freelancer timesheets
- Creating and propagating processes for tracking delivery across multiple projects
- Assuring that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
- Establishing and enforcing change control and risk mitigation processes
- Ensuring all required data for making Program-level decisions is complete and readily available
- Distributing project and program information to executive management, project teams, and other key stakeholders
Qualifications for music director
- Must possess a thorough understanding of how to prep a show for target audiences
- Must be a motivated team player, who takes direction well and has excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to multi-task
- Experience with Music Master is required
- Experience with Wide Orbit Automation, and other radio skills a strong asset
- Minimum of 7 years prior experience working in the areas of music clearance, music publishing, publishing administration, music supervision, and / or music copyright
- Must have thorough knowledge of music clearance procedures related to the TV/Film Industry
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of music director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for music director
- Evaluating project success and reporting back to Music group stakeholders on success criteria met
- Managing relationships with the Business, PMO, VMO and Technical Management
- Promulgating PMO project management processes
- Reviews episodic and pilot scripts to determine the needs related to on and off-camera musician and singer performances
- Participates in the selection and hiring of musicians and singers for on and off-camera sessions
- Handles on and off-camera sideline and recording sessions (days, hours, type of session, actual work done, ) as it relates to the music contact (composer/music producer if off-site recording session)
- Handles all aspects of hire paperwork process
- Researches and evaluates New Use claims brought by AFM, SAG, and AFTRA
- Works with the Legal Department and Labor Relations department to evaluate language in various union agreements concerning re-use of musical performances and ensures that SAG/AFTRA New Use payments are pre-negotiated with vocalists when the shows use feature and television vocal score soundtracks that were originally recorded under the SAG/AFTRA agreement
- Handles special projects that relate to the overall Music administrative function
Qualifications for music director
- Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with Producers, Directors, Publishers, Writers, Lawyers and all levels of personnel
- Must be able to read, interpret and negotiate Synchronization and Master Use agreements
- In-depth knowledge of publishers, composer, public domain music, and the like
- Knowledge of Music Supervision beneficial
- Must have knowledge of Word, Excel, and Microsoft Access
- 5+ years Production Finance experience with a successful track record
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a music director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for music director
- Provide support to Worldwide Marketing and Publicity departments in all matters relating to music clearance for new marketing strategies pertaining to current television product provide clearance advice and services for music contained in publicity and marketing clips and/or pilots requiring clearance for marketing campaigns prior to air
- Review and finalize all licensing agreements issued by third parties
- Sets licensing guidelines and negotiates rights for all third party Main Title theme songs used in WBTV and Warner Horizon product
- Responsible for structuring, negotiating, and continually updating all form music licensing agreements with all music publishing companies and record companies, covering third-party music used in WBTV and Warner Horizon TV project releases
- Set-up and maintain effective follow-up system for outstanding licenses, track all licenses to ensure final execution by all parties in a timely manner, and input license information into department database
- Train and supervise Licensing Coordinator in the process of securing third party signatures on all licenses distribute fully executed copies to all necessary parties
- Book bands & coordinate all the logistics for the Paramount Music Dept
- Works under the direction of the Assistant Dean for Admission, Financial Aid and Graduate Services, along with performance and academic faculty, to implement recruitment strategies, meet enrollment goals, and support admission policies and practices
- Grow, mentor, and empower the team to execute on the strategy
- Be responsible for the overall product roadmap, go-to-market, and delivery of high quality innovative products that meet or exceed market expectations, delivery schedule, and cost targets
Qualifications for music director
- Ability to instill trust
- 5 years music contracting or other related experience
- AFM/SAG/AFTRA contract application required
- Experience in accounting/budgeting required, especially in television production
- Knowledge of Accounts Payable and Payroll
- Knowledge of SAG and SAG/AFTRA terms for singers and of AFM terms for musicians
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a music director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for music director
- Make smart and timely decisions
- Think ahead and troubleshoot
- Create, develop and maintain relationships with advertising agencies and brands music supervisors
- Creating a topical and engaging morning show for Adults 25-54
- Building and maintaining a brand for the morning show and station
- Become a part of the community (and not just with station appearances)
- Maintain company and station policies, procedures, goals and guiding principles
- Scheduling music daily in accordance with CTRC/SOCAN guidelines
- Contribute to a winning team attitude while taking a leadership role on and off-air
- Voice Track other shifts as required
Qualifications for music director
- Ability to work with minimum supervision, to set own priorities and to track own deadlines
- Must be organized and maintain files, both hard copy and computerized accurately, for reference and audit purposes
- Minimum of 8-10 years prior experience working in the areas of music clearance, music pitching and supervision
- In-depth knowledge of music clearance and licensing, song placement, union/guild rates and guidelines
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of company and department personnel, producers, directors, publishers, record company executives, composers, and attorneys
- Ability to relate well with staff and maintain a well organized and productive department