Senior Associate, Music Digital Advertising (Bilingual) - Downtown Music

Downtown Artist & Label Services offers distribution, bespoke marketing solutions, and funding to entrepreneurial artists and their partners, ranging from emerging talent at the forefront of pop culture to the most storied managers and record labels. Downtown Music is owned and operated by Downtown Music Holdings. Downtown allows artists and their partners to achieve the same commercial success on digital sales and streaming platforms that they would expect of a major record label, without sacrificing any ownership in their works, control over their strategy, or their creative vision. 

Downtown Music Artist & Label Services and FUGA are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Associate, Music Digital Advertising (Bilingual) to join our team. Part of Downtown Music Holdings, Artist & Label services and FUGA offer hands-on distribution service to top-tier clientele.

This role is open to hybrid candidates based preferably in NY/NJ, Nashville, Los Angeles or remote candidates based in North Carolina, Maryland, or Florida.

What you'll be doing:

• Execute, manage, and optimize digital media ad campaigns with a focus on campaign KPIs and goals for a variety of music artists and labels, as well as internal initiatives for A&LS and FUGA
• Liaise with marketing and project management teams to develop media strategies and campaigns
• Handle advertising access, onboarding, creative asset procurement, and reporting for executed campaigns
• Provide real-time suggestions for optimizations to improve ad performance
• Create and manage custom audiences; utilize pixel or API based tracking to improve advertising performance
• Identify target audiences and analyze their characteristics, behaviors, and media habits
• Monitor media buys to ensure all brand safety and viewability standards are met or exceeded
• Monitor media for pacing, delivery, placement, and flight date discrepancies
• Utilize internal project management systems to track budgets and spends as they are incurred
• Provide technical support and handle troubleshooting for ad account issues, including creative disapprovals and billing issues
• Aid in educating the digital & marketing teams on best-practices and data-driven techniques
• Implement test initiatives such as A/B testing, multivariate testing, and other testing as needed 

Must-Haves / Requirements:

• 3+ years of extensive experience and deep knowledge of both PPC advertising platforms and music-specific advertising platforms: Meta, TikTok, Google (Youtube), Spotify Ad Studio, etc.
• Proven skills in PPC advertising set-up and optimization
• Fluency in both Spanish and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience working in the music industry, in a marketing function: at an agency, label, management company, etc.
• Knowledge of the digital marketing levers for music
• Knowledge of music industry and digital distribution landscape
• Knowledge of current and future trends in social media and paid social
• Experience analyzing data from Spotify for Artists, iTunes Connect, Chartmetric
• Experience utilizing project management platforms like Airtable, Trello, Asana, etc. 
• Deep understanding of PPC advertising best practices, creative best practices, and music marketing best practices
• Experience building and maintaining internal and external relationships
• Self-starter with strong organization skills and attention to detail, with ability to set and consistently meet deadlines
• Experience with creating reports and ad plans, 
• Experience with requesting assets, and onboarding new advertising projects
• Deep knowledge of "media math," i.e., how targeting and other various factors affect performance and interact with each other, how different metrics are related and their effect on each other, etc.
• Experience with retargeting, building custom audiences, conversion tracking, and pixeling
• Experience with deciphering and explaining metrics to clients without advertising knowledge

Why you want to work here: 

• Ample opportunities to work with leaders and employees across multiple Downtown brands
• Work​ ​in​ ​a​ ​collaborative environment​ ​full​ ​of​​ mission driven, innovative, and passionate people
• Be part of an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture 
• Rich benefit program (Medical, Dental, Vision), Life Insurance, 401k (with match)
• Paid Volunteer Hours

Downtown provides base salary ranges for all positions located in the United States at the time of posting. The hiring range for this position is $60,000 - $65,000 annually. As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon various factors including, but not limited to, work experience, geographic location and relevant skills. Downtown is committed to providing a comprehensive market-competitive total rewards program for its employees which includes medical, dental, and vision, life insurance, 401(k) match and generous paid time off. This range does not include any other variable compensation components.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Downtown's values. We welcome and encourage all applicants of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.