🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Mavin Records – 5 Positions

Mavin Records is Africa's leading entertainment company. Mavin Records is a Nigerian music corporation record label founded by record producer and recording artist Don Jazzy on 8 May 2012. The label's inception came to fruition following the closure of Mo' Hits Records, a record label owned by the aforementioned producer and D'banj.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Video Editor
2.) Licensing & Publishing Associate
3.) Artist Manager
4.) Promotions Associate
5.) Artist & Repertoire Associate (Product)

Job Title: Video Editor

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin is looking for an energetic Video Editor, with previous experience, to join their growing team and help contribute to content operations of the business.
• Our ideal candidate has a good network and an impressive understanding of the media and entertainment space in Nigeria and beyond.
• This candidate will be a “builder” with the ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial and growing company.
• To be successful as a business development associate, you should be adept at negotiating business deals and able to make sound decisions that will benefit the company.
• Ultimately, an exceptional business development associate should have strong business acumen as well as demonstrate excellent management, communication, and analytical skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Manipulate and edit video footage and film pieces in a way that is invisible to the audience to produce desired and outlined result
• Understand production team’s needs and specifications
• Review shooting script and raw footage to create a shot decision list based on scenes’ value and contribution to continuity
• Trim footage segments and put together the sequence of the film
• Input music, dialogues, graphics and effects to create desired effect
• Create rough and final cuts
• Ensure logical sequencing and smooth running
• Maintain and express artist’s and brand’s aesthetics using visual elements and storytelling.
• Follow necessary procedures for Mavin to sell its products and services in major countries around the world and to perform required client relations duties.

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What do we expect?
Pre-Production:

• Providing input on technical decisions i.e equipment lists, location choices
• Proper understanding of the brief and desired output

Production:

• Ensuring the team stays aware of technical factors that affect output
• Provide DIT services where required on set

Post-Production:

• Edit videos within stipulated timelines
• Take on and execute feedback from appropriate parties
• Upload files to Frame.io for feedback
• Upload final edits to Google Drive for sharing

KPIs & Goals

• Number of Finished edits
• Average delivery time in days (maximum of 7 days)
• Cumulative number of days spent past deadline (ideal number is 0)
• Projects edited within deadline (target is 100%)
• Courses and training completed w/ reports (minimum of 2)
• New software adopted for post-production (minimum of 2).

Requirements

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Licensing & Publishing Associate

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin Global is looking to hire a Licensing and Publishing associate to join our team. You will work closely with the Partnerships team and Management.

Responsibilities

• Conducting research on licensing and publishing opportunities locally and internationally.
• Review of external Artist release agreements, feature agreements, side artist agreements, split sheets, and other incidental release agreements.
• Registering catalogue with publishing partners
• Reviewing licensing requests
• Conducting research on licensing and publishing opportunities across the world
• Preparing business proposals for pitching new and existing works.
• Liaising with sync agencies, production companies & advertising agencies
• Developing creative strategies for new and existing works
• Regularly update artists’, songwriters’, publishers’, and rights holder’s repertoire with PPL, PRS, and other necessary collection societies.
• Regularly update publishers on releases.
• Reviewing and following up on licensing requests.
• Providing administrative support to Licensing and Publishing team.
• Follow up and execute projects as handed out from the Partnership Department.
• Build music portfolio locally and internationally
• Follow up on outstanding licensing deals
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Music enthusiast with LL.M and B.L in Law or other relevant discipline
• Excellent communication skills
• Good understanding of research
• Knowledgeable about market trends, music industry developments and innovations
• Highly motivated and organised with excellent time management skills

How we work:

• We love working async and this means you get to do your schedule.
• We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action/asking instead of waiting.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Artist Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin Global is recruiting an army of passionate artist managers who will be responsible for shaping the career path of our artists in a day-to-day and long-term sense.
• Our managers ​will be the main point of contact between the artist and their wider team, whilst remaining connected to the management.
• As an artist manager at Mavin, you are expected to be proactive about the development of the artist while liaising with producers and helping to drive music campaign strategies and objectives forward.

Key Responsibilities
Here is what you will be doing:

• Negotiate contracts and fees, find and book events and venues that match the artist’s career goals.
• Work with the marketing team to develop and execute marketing strategies for music, film, and catalog projects. Marketing includes creating branding, strategy, timelines, and overseeing execution of radio, digital, publicity, retail, touring, tour marketing, licensing, and strategic marketing with artists.
• May be required to advise on career decisions, publicity, and promotion, helping them on career decisions such as which record producer to work with, or which songs to perform, and managing media relations on their behalf.
• Cultivate relationships with music industry decision-makers on our talent’s behalf and must keep up to date with what’s happening.
• Assist with organising and negotiating contracts for release and publishing, and they communicate with the press.
• Required to book interviews for promotion, assist in hiring coaches and trainers to help artists with dancing, voice, translations, and others, and perform daily bookkeeping and complete financial obligations.
• Communicate efficiently with artists daily, ensuring confidentiality and discretion at all times.
• Provide support whilst touring, assisting with logistics, VISAs, budgets, etc., and always look after the artist’s best interests on the road.
• Coordinate day-to-day activities for artists: arranging travel requirements, creating itineraries, and managing complex schedules. Ensuring the artist is on time for every shoot, session, interview, and other activities.

Requirements
Our ideal artist manager should possess:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or related field.
• Experience in project management is key.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage complex projects
• 2 - 4 years in a marketing role or business development/sales
• Experience in Budgeting, Negotiation, Music Licensing, and publishing is an added advantage.
• Ability to work seamlessly with Marketing, A&R, Partnership and, Legal departments
• Must possess ninja communication skills, organisational skill and people-oriented
• Must have good knowledge of schedule management
• In-depth knowledge of music business, tour planning, and relevant industry network.

What do we expect?

• Successful media rounds
• Collaborate with booking agents to increase the number of bookings, and in the absence of an agent seek out opportunities.
• Ensure live performances are facilitated in a well-coordinated and timely manner
• Partnerships and business development
• Professional network growth: who do you know/connect to.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Promotions Associate

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin Global is seeking a gritty promotions associate with a global mindset and tenacity to help drive the success of promotional initiatives.
• They will work closely with the promotion manager.
• Our ideal candidate will have excellent personal organization skills, a confident and calm personality, and an enthusiasm for the media and entertainment industry in Nigeria and internationally.
• A successful candidate will be a “builder” with the ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial and growing company.

Responsibilities

• Create local and international plans that target key demographics that maximize visibility for Mavin artists’ content, releases, and tour dates
• Build, maintain and leverage a database of local partners who define and influence culture including promoters, social influencers, writers, the tech community, lifestyle shops, club nights, and content creators
• Establish relationships with OAPs, on-campus clubs, influential leaders, trendsetters, and tastemakers to secure collaborations for artist releases, events, and programs
• Pitch artists’ content for college and local media (press/radio/blogs) coverage and placement
• Prepare monthly promotional recaps that will be distributed to the artist, their managers, and the label
• Research and pitch new initiatives that can maximize promotional efforts
• Work closely with the promotions manager and street team to amplify operational plans for the roster.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase radio and tv plays
• Increase media mentions which will in turn increase bookings for the artistes
• % Spike in-stream numbers MOM
• Brand equity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications-related fields such as Public Relations and Advertising
• Detail-oriented and flexible
• Proficient in MS office
• Strong knowledge and network in the entertainment industry is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Artist & Repertoire Associate (Product)

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin is looking to hire an Artist & Repertoire Associate (Product) whose role is to nurture the growth trajectory of an artist and their music, through innovative development tactics and strategies.
• His or her role is to identify and deploy growth initiatives for various projects across the roaster.
• You will be tasked with product design and specifications, industry and market selection, target market and product placement ideas if applicable.
• It’s also your responsibility to manage the development and improvement of existing products and services, to better meet user needs.
• Our ideal candidate will work closely with our Director of A&R to ensure our growth goals are aligned with the business

Just so you know:

• The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable.
• However, the business operates in an environment that demands change, and the jobholder’s specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop.
• Therefore, the job description should be indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

Here's What You Will be doing

• Create and manage the new product development pipeline portfolio, to ensure successive annual roll-outs of high performing products/projects to achieve the year’s plan growth targets.
• Gathers the raw materials necessary to build or create the product being developed.
• Performs research analysis to determine the best way to develop/grow old and new products.
• Prepare reports on the various procedures that have been tried to eliminate unsuccessful methods.
• Presents growth initiatives for the first 3 phases of each artists’ project or release cycle.
• Work closely with the digital and distribution campaigns for new products.
• Strategically thinking of the next steps for high performing tracks.
• Prepares a cost analysis associated with each growth phase.
• Pivoting when necessary in a development plan whenever the current idea is not working well.
• Monitoring/tracking key metrics of each development from one release cycle/project to another.
• Continuous pitching of our high performing tracks.

Bring your Vibe

• A Degree in a relevant field
• Strong network or community in the music industry
• Must possess good problem-solving abilities and people skills.
• Strong salesmanship attributes
• Can troubleshoot issues and determine the cause of a plan’s success or failure
• Stays current with the latest trends in the music industry
• Keeps up to date with changes in the market and technology that would affect new product development
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team.
• Impeccable eye for details and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Data analysis skills is an added advantage.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple streams of work.
• Excellent working knowledge of software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

How we work:

• We love working async and this means you get to do your schedule.
• We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action/asking instead of waiting.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online