Mixdown’s top jobs in the Australian music industry (this week)

• 3(+) years proven work experience in a similar technology-based role with a focus on customer service, business development, product support within the dynamics of supply chain

• Must Live in Sydney or within proximity

• Understanding of products & Industry 

• Proven experience within music industry & gear in either performance, production, sales, or support

Tasks / Responsibilities Include:

• Operate as the key point of contact for all customer service-related matters, build and maintain trusted relationships with key principles and stakeholders throughout the channel.

• Ensure a timely and successful delivery of our sales and marketing solutions according to the customer needs and the company’s objectives.

• Assist with urgent and high severity requests and resolve issue escalations in a timely fashion.

• Manage and facilitate sales and service support activities like product launches and management visits.

• Identify opportunities and collaborate with management and sales support to ensure growth attainment 

• Provides regular feedback to management as well as updating the company’s CRM as to client responses and market intelligence

Don’t delay – apply here today. 

PUBLICIST – POSITIVE FEEDBACK (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) 

With an amazing roster of artists such as Tame Impala, The Jungle Giants, BENEE, Lime Cordiale and Confidence Man, Positive Feedback are one of the finest boutique publicity and communications firms in Australia today. They’re currently looking for an experienced and passionate industry professional to sign on as a publicist and assist in the development and roll out of some massive music campaigns on a full time basis. 

Skills / Experience Required:

• At least 2 years of relevant experience in public relations with strong media and industry contacts. a passion for music and the creative industries and a fundamental interest in developing careers and long-term strategies for an exceptional client base.

• An interest in project management on a global level and have a strong knowledge and interest of media outlets both locally and internationally to assist in developing and expanding the domestic and international media database.

• Be passionate about organisation, processes and communication with a strong attention to detail managing workflow across the board. Be balanced and calm under pressure, have fun and a sense of humour. Be productive, efficient and driven with high attention to detail.

• Be an exceptional communicator and have excellent people management skills – whether this be creating collateral, reporting to clients, communicating with the Director or delegating to staff.

• Highly creative and emotionally intelligent, able to capitalise on clients’ unique passion points in order to create strategic promotional plans and long-term vision for clients and the business. Full of integrity and highly ethical, loyal and driven by the manifesto of making good things happen for good people.

• Use their own initiative and be creative with expansive, big ideas for their own projects as well as the rest of the team if called upon.  It is important that this person is independent but also actively collaborative.

• Be as comfortable doing admin jobs as creating global PR strategies for the roster. 

• Understands the value of hard work and professionalism and is able to transition seamlessly from attending industry and client events, shows and festivals to office-based tasks.

• Embody a culture of wellness, fun, hard work, reliability, celebration, good people, inspiration, creativity, thinking outside the box, success, sustainability and growth.

• Be committed, loyal and excited about the possibility of working hard to grow and nurture a growing agency and passionate about Positive Feedback’s ethos.

Tasks Include:

• Account manage publicity, radio, communications and creative clients for national and international artists, brands and projects.  

• Strategise and run music-focused publicity projects across traditional, new and undiscovered platforms including but not limited to triple j, alternative radio, online and print press TV and DSPs, with a focus on developing the profile of your client in an authentic, creative way.

• The successful candidate will work alongside the Positive Creative team to facilitate creative campaigns for our artists, engaging with our strong network of key tastemakers in music, fashion, lifestyle, tech, art and culture to connect artists with diverse audiences in an organic way.

• Report to clients, your manager, director and the team to ensure campaign targets are met and delivered on time and above and beyond expectations. 

Does this sound like you? Shoot your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by Friday 6 November to be in the running. 

CREATIVE PRODUCER & PARTNERSHIPS COORDINATOR – POSITIVE FEEDBACK (Melbourne, Sydney)

Hiring spree! Positive Feedback are also accepting applications for a passionate, connected and experienced creative producer and partnerships director to assist the publicity team and build new creative networks for the business. This role, based in Sydney or Melbourne, will initially commence on a part-time 3 day equivalent basis, with an aim to transition into a full-time role moving forward. 

Skills / Experience Required: ​

• The successful candidate will have a producer brain with impeccable organisation skills and the ability to work under pressure

• Negotiating budgets and the ability to mutli-task

• Previous experience in managing creative teams and directly reporting to clients

Tasks / Responsibilities include:

• Assuming responsiblity for managing all outward facing visual communications for the company including website updates, weekly newsletters, social media and out of the box creative ideas, all while ensuring the company remains progressive, international, creative and relevant in an evolving landscape

• Managing key creative projects ensuring timely deliverables while keeping the creative team organised and accountable

• Managing all aspects of production for creative shoots including timelines, call sheets, client questions and ensuring comfort and efficiency on set.  Assist with creative proposals for potential clients. Where necessary this person will be required to manage external teams.  

• Managing brand identity for artists. This person will have the ability to facilitate assets such as artwork, press images, video clips and social social media content. Graphic design, marketing collateral creation skills experience will be looked upon favourably. This person will also work with our digital team to put together effective digital marketing campaigns with a focus on impeccable creative.

• Managing and advancing Positive Feedback’s brand and creative database, developing relationships with local and international brands across tech, lifestyle, art, fashion, music (and more) as well as PR agencies to coordinate gifting and campaign opportunities for our client list.  This person is confident in negotiating paid opportunities for clients and comfortable liaising between management and the brand.

• Assisting with the expansion and development of relationships with overseas titles and media outlets, creating new and authentic homes for artist content and finding unique ways to showcase and position our roster in the global marketplace.

• Facilitating paid campaigns for our roster across social media, modeling for brands, music licensing and other collaborations.  Exploring opportunities with brands for group projects, creating a community within the Positive Feedback roster and creating engaging, widely shared content for brands and our clients.

Don’t hesitate – get your application off to [email protected] by Friday 6 November!