Our Bad Habit is a full-service music company (management, record label, and publishing) seeking a dynamic candidate well-versed in the music industry to assist one of its high-priority artist clients. Competitive applicants must have a strong interest in R&B and Afrobeats music, and 2-4+ years of experience in artist management or assistant work in the music industry. All applicants must be based in Los Angeles and have a car.
What This Person Will Do:
- Administrative support – phones, calendars, scheduling…
- Work in tandem with members of the management team to help execute timelines, content, and activations meant to achieve artist goals.
- Serve as a liaison between the artist and management team
- Coordinate with tour manager to arrange itineraries and oversee booking of artist’s global travel – air, hotel, ground transportation, reservations, meetings and any special needs
- Planning, scheduling, and tracking deliverables during album and tour cycles via internal project management
- Review and file invoices, update budgets/spreadsheets, and handle payment tracking
- Assist with special projects, errands and live events as needed
- Organize splits sheets and collect project files/stems from song contributors
- Attend artist recording sessions
- Assist artist, management, and digital team with capturing DIY content of the artist – *experience with shooting short-form content on iPhones & video editing tools (Capcut, Adobe Premiere) is a plus, but not required for applying
Qualifications:
- 2-4 years of artist management or assistant experience
- Based in Los Angeles
- Applicant must have a car
- Superior attention to detail and organizational skills
- Demonstrate the ability to think creatively, three-dimensionally and to tie different pieces if a project together when needed
- Tech savvy command of business software (Microsoft Office suite & Adobe) and cloud-based software (Google Docs/Drive, Dropbox, Box, Zoom…)
- Exceptional grasp of budgeting and use of Excel & Google Sheets software
- Excellent verbal and written communications, interpersonal skills and phone/email demeanor
- Assist in brainstorming and implementing exciting new marketing content (exclusive audio and video content, contests) optimized for each distribution network/channel
- Ability to independently carry-out multiple tasks from start-to-finish with the aptitude to anticipate and prioritize
- Proven time management skills that meet tight deadlines and can manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Great attitude, calm and collective in a fast-paced environment; helpful, friendly and diplomatic
- Ability to demonstrate discretion in handling confidential data and dealing with high-level artists and industry executives