As a Music Editor, you'll need deep knowledge and passion for music across multiple genres, from what’s top of the charts to the latest emerging artists and scenes, what’s trending on Tik-Tok to the all-time classics. You’ll be immersed in popular culture, attending gigs and festivals, and identifying trends as they happen. You’ll combine this expertise with data insights to provide curated content and human signals to listeners. You'll champion new music releases and collaborate with international teams while focusing on delivering exceptional listening experiences for our UK customers. Whether it's playlists, stations, editorial features, or helping to develop new product features, you'll help innovate at the intersection of music and culture across the Amazon Music service.

If you want to influence how people engage with music on a global scale, this exciting role offers the opportunity to make a real impact in one of the world’s most important music markets.

Key job responsibilities
• Contribute to key elements of the music experience of our service by creating and refining curated content
• Identify innovation and simplification opportunities in existing processes and mechanisms and propose optimisation approaches
• Be the voice of new music releases and trends internally and externally across several genres
• Gather, analyze, report, and act on listener engagement and content usage data
• Collaborate with international stakeholders to contribute to strategic workstreams, and deliver added value projects
• Obsess over the quality of the music experience of our service, identifying, influencing and actioning improvements for our customers

A day in the life
As a Music Editor, a lot of time will be spent reviewing and listening to new releases and curating them for listeners. You’ll review streaming data and engagement metrics to identify content performance and emerging trends in the UK market, reacting to those trends in your curation. You'll collaborate with local, regional and global colleagues to align on global music releases, ensuring local relevance.

Throughout the day, you'll curate and refine playlists and stations, selecting tracks that resonate with diverse listener preferences, from Gen Z discovering the latest new artists, to fans exploring their genres, moods, themes and catalogue music. You'll analyse and prepare reports on customer engagement and listening patterns for the team to optimise content placement, and review the quality of listening experiences and new product features. You’ll develop and contribute to editorial features, and work closely with our Industry Relations Team to coordinate new release campaigns, connecting artists with fans. Regular touchpoints and mechanisms with your Programming Team peers will help you share insights and contribute to strategic initiatives that enhance the Amazon Music experience for customers across the Amazon Music app and Alexa devices.

About the team
The Amazon Music Editorial Team's mission is to curate the best listening experience for our customers, highlighting the most relevant content from a diverse range of genres, moods and activities, and helping artists reach fans. As a Music Editor, you will use your content expertise and data insights to actively influence and evolve our content portfolio and associated initiatives. We work across voice and visual experiences and collaborate with local, regional and global peers and stakeholder teams as well as our music industry partners.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and make data-driven decisions
• In-depth knowledge across a range of musical styles, and of current trends and history in the UK and global music industry
• Ability to create content for specific audiences across genres

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Gen Z media habits and curiosity to understand new trends
• Experience working in Music Streaming environments
• Experience with GenAI Tools