Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Business Intelligence Software, Cross-Functional, Establish Priorities, Leadership, Machine Tool, Metadata, Music, Operations Management, Outsourcing, Problem Solving Skills, Project/Program Management, Quality Metrics, SQL (Structured Query Language), Tableau, Technical Analysis, Vendor/Supplier Management
Location: Cupertino, CA Onsite/Hybrid
Introduction
Client Music is seeking a dynamic individual to drive the quality, accuracy, and scalability of the artist catalog data that powers various artist-related features. This is a contractor role with potential for full-time conversion.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5 years in operations, program management, or technical product roles with exposure to AI/ML-driven workflows.
- Experience translating operational or product problems into ML requirements.
- Exposure to LLM-based workflows or agentic automation.
- Experience collaborating with international stakeholders.
- Comfort querying data (SQL or similar).
- Experience evaluating model outputs and designing eval sets and quality metrics.
- Experience designing review/annotation tooling that surfaces AI inputs to human reviewers.
- Conceptual understanding of core analytics principles.
- Proven ability to produce executive-ready narratives and presentations.
- Track record of leading ambiguous initiatives with minimal direction.
- Prior work experience at client or in client's Industry.
Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- Experience in the music industry or with music metadata, catalogs, or artist-facing products.
- Familiarity with entity resolution/disambiguation problems.
- Experience managing vendor or outsourced review teams.
- Tableau or comparable BI tooling.
- A genuine passion for music and curiosity about the systems that power the modern music industry.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Lead artist curation operations end-to-end and serve as the operational owner for vendor teams.
- Bridge communication between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Translate operational challenges into technical requirements.
- Break down ambiguous problems into well-scoped, prioritized workstreams.
- Evaluate technical proposals and model outputs.
- Design and iterate on manual review tooling.
- Identify opportunities to apply ML models and automation to artist curation problems.
- Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership.
- Partner cross-functionally to surface interdependencies and align priorities.
Company Benefits & Culture
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Potential for full-time conversion for the right candidate.
- Engagement with cutting-edge technology and music industry insights.
For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.