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Title: Audio Project Assistant
Status: Full-time
Hours: 40/week, Monday - Friday, 9am-6pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Reports to: Senior Audio Manager
Company Summary: The Numero Group is an archival record label that curates compilations, reissues original albums, and creates album reconstructions from a variety of musical genres. Their products include deeply researched, expertly resuscitated and lavishly packaged box sets, playlists and ephemera of historic music from the 1950s-1990s. Founded in Chicago in 2003 by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, for nearly 20 years Numero has committed to unearthing precious lost sounds for new audiences, with an unparalleled ear for potential and spirited eye for detail.
With hundreds of titles in our diverse catalog of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, 12-inch singles and playlists, each Numero production illuminates the often herculean efforts of individuals who sang, played, recorded and peddled their art to little fanfare in its day. Through intense research and wild ideas, these songs find new life in streaming, lovingly-packaged media and placement in film and television. By self-imposed law, everything assembled by Numero is a stunning new artifact of sound, image and word.
Position Summary: The Audio Project Assistant assists with all aspects of the audio lifecycle from initial discovery to final release. This includes activities related to sourcing and acquiring physical media, listening and uncovering, transferring and digitizing, cleaning and restoring, approving and critiquing masters and test presses, sorting, indexing, sharing, storing and archiving. The Audio Assistant works under the Audio Project Manager. This role is a full time in person position in our Chicago Office.
Responsibilities:
Sourcing media through various online and in person channels as well through our own media archive and contacts database.
Cleaning and Transferring Media - Vinyl, Reel to Reel, Cass, CD to desired digital formats
Listening, evaluating and escalating interesting finds to the appropriate project teams
Maintain and fine tune existing audio archival database and physical library.
Index and Inventory new and unarchived physical media collections (tape indexing, collection indexing).
Digital asset management - updating metadata and uploading transfers and finished audio to the appropriate destinations.
Weekly review of the upcoming release schedule to make sure audio is on track to be ready for release by due dates.
Coordinate with various mastering engineers to exchange audio assets and communicate project deadlines and priorities.
Fulfill 3rd party license requests in desired audio formats.
Assist with Test Pressing listening and approval.
Sending and receiving physical assets to artists, mastering studios and pressing plants via USPS/FedEx/Etc…
Assist with the generation of UPCs / ISRCs / Catalog Numbers for audio projects.

Requirements

The Ideal Candidate Demonstrates:
Experienced in ProTools (or similar DAW)
Proficient understanding of basic audio systems and formats
A Passion for vintage, independent music across a variety of genres and decades
Proficient knowledge of Microsoft/Google Office Suite, Email, Digital Calendars
Strong written and oral communication skills
Attentive to details
Strong organization skills including general knowledge of spreadsheets, databases and filing systems
Adaptable to fast paced environment with multiple competing deadlines

Benefits & Perks

SG Services, Inc. Benefits
Paid holidays including end of the year closure
Paid Time Off policy
401K with corporate matching
12 weeks for parental leave after birth or adoption paid at 100% of salary
Volunteer Hours Matching Policy
Employee Assistance Program
Health insurance
Chicago Salary Range: $44k

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**Overview** In the growing noise of the so-called reissue field, The Numero Group remains distinct in its quality: deeply researched, expertly resuscitated and lavishly packaged box sets, playlists and ephemera of historic music from the 1950s-1990s. Founded in Chicago in 2003 by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, for more than 15 years Numero has committed to unearthing precious lost sounds for new audiences, with an unparalleled ear for potential and spirited eye for detail. With hundreds of titles in our diverse catalog of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, 12-inch singles and playlists, each Numero production illuminates the often herculean efforts of individuals who sang, played, recorded and peddled their art to little fanfare in its day. Through intense research and wild ideas, these songs find new life in streaming, lovingly-packaged media and placement in film and television. By self-imposed law, everything assembled by Numero is a stunning new artifact of sound, image and word. Numero also has a dedicated in-house team of licensing professionals here to meet the needs of your billion dollar Hollywood blockbuster or student film alike. 95% of our catalog is one-stop, with Numero administering the Dust Index and Songs of Numero Group publishing catalogs. Requests can be made through the form below.

Job Details

Posted on Apr 5

Chicago, IL, USA

Full time

Junior

$44K