Audio Producer (11 month FTC )

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Department Description: Recently launched as Sound Therapy on Apple Music, Sollos is Universal Music’s leading audio‑wellness venture. We create music and soundscapes which have been specifically engineered to help people focus, relax and sleep, combining music from the world’s best artists with cutting‑edge research into cognitive science and psychoacoustics. Sollos curate tracks from Universal Music’s world‑class roster of artists, using science‑backed criteria to assess the audio’s suitability to support better focus, relaxation, and sleep.

AI researchers at Universal Music have developed a patented algorithm to analyse the rhythmic, dynamic, and harmonic features of a piece of music and generate auditory beats that match. Our audio producers review and modify the generated output to ensure that the beat blends with the music whilst respecting the harmonic and temporal structure of the original track. We produce wellness remixes and creative collaborations with big‑name artists that incorporate the same science that research has shown can help improve mood and enhance cognition. Our team of cognitive scientists conduct rigorous studies into the impact of Sollos on listener’s wellbeing and productivity ensuring that our claims are credible and supported by science. Universal Music is actively exploring innovations in how music and cognitive science can be combined to support health and wellness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Play an active, vital role in delivering content through our science‑led curation pipeline.
• Apply rigorous QC processes to ensure that music, audio, and metadata meet technical specifications.
• Use mixing & compositional techniques to blend auditory beats with music across a wide range of genres.
• Produce wellness remixes and collaborate with artists to produce bespoke compositions.
• Review repertoire against scientific criteria to select suitable tracks for curation.
• Provide constructive feedback on work commissioned from producers, mix and mastering engineers.
• Deliver work of the highest standard with access to professional studios when required.
• Support the Audio, Science and ML teams with R&D and asset creation and/or collation.
• Work alongside AI researchers and engineers to build requirements and test our latest audio innovations.
• Populate, query, and maintain Sollos’ database with meticulous care and attention.
• Ensure delivery of assets against commercial deadlines and manage archiving processes.

Key Skills And Experience Required:

• Must have strong professional experience in music production as audio engineer, composer, and/or producer.
• Demonstrable expertise in audio editing, composition, sound design, mixing, and mastering.
• Deep knowledge of technical audio principles, synthesis, acoustics, and the physics of sound.
• Advanced user of Ableton Live with good working knowledge of popular DAWs and audio plugins.
• Musician or music creator with solid understanding of music theory.
• Obsessed with sound, technology, and music and driven to achieve the highest standards in these fields.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Extremely well‑organised, ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines.
• Competent IT experience.

Nice to have:

• Academic, personal, or on‑the‑job training in audio, music, or related STEM subject.
• Professional experience or demonstrable interest in Audio R&D and/or AI/ML.
• Solid grasp of fundamentals in DSP, Audio & Music AI, Spatial Audio.
• Interest in cognitive science, music therapy, and/or music for wellness and productivity.
• Experience querying relational databases and using data analysis tools.
• Coding experience and/or comfortable using command line tools.
• Experience in a music curation or supervision role.
• Experience in agile teams using project management tools such as JIRA, Shortcut.
• Experience collaborating within multi‑disciplinary teams.

Key Behavioural:

You will have a strong track record across the full lifecycle of projects, proving the ability to communicate with business stakeholders, understand business pain points, and be able to take responsibility for the day-to-day management of our tech projects. You will be pro‑active in your approach, by pre‑empting the business stakeholders’ needs or concerns and identifying and communicating best way to address these. Patience, diplomacy, critical thinking and persistence are every step of the project phases will be required.