Editorial Research Specialist - Mexico City, México - The Nielsen Company

Descripción

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. Gracenote is building a team of entertainment information experts and data specialists who will support our music products and services. Your contributions to our team will help us increase content coverage in existing and emerging markets to give our customers a premium music metadata experience. Our Music Editorial team is made up of music specialists with a deep knowledge of regional music trends and genres.We are presently looking for a Music Specialist for our Music Editorial team, with a special focus on trending popular Caribbean and African music styles and the World Music market in general. This role is to be located in Mexico, reporting to our Mexico Team Lead. About the Role Gracenote's Music Editorial team is made up of music enthusiasts with a deep knowledge of regional music trends and genres. We are looking for an all-around music enthusiast with a special interest in popular and traditional Caribbean and African music styles to join our team.Successful candidates will have a strong breadth and depth of knowledge about different genres of popular music, with special consideration for popular Caribbean and African music and traditional music from the same market. In this position, you will combine your music knowledge with a sharp eye for detail in order to support an artist and discography database. You must be detail-oriented, self-motivated, and comfortable with technology. You must be able to maintain focus on tasks and deliverables under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

Ensure that album and artist metadata are of highest quality

Apply independent judgment to review, correct and classify music-related data elements according to established standards and practices

Support artist enrichment review efforts

Act as the team's specialist on issues related to popular, traditional and trending Caribbean and African artists and their musical releases.

Ensure that metadata in new music content adheres to our standards

Research artists to enrich and verify metadata

Communicate issues and resolutions clearly and concisely, escalating problems as needed

Assist in creating and maintaining documentation of workflows, tool use, quality control

Learn and master internal Gracenote tools, technologies, data standards, and processes

Qualifications

Bi/multilingual - native or fluent English, with native or fluent knowledge of Spanish.

Additional related languages (especially French) are a plus.

Comprehensive and well-rounded knowledge of wide array of popular music and pop culture for Caribbean and African music and for the general global music market

Ability to review, navigate, and compare vast amounts of textual and imagery information from multiple information sources in a rapid manner

Have familiarity with data-standardization policies and techniques, styles guides, and/or normalization routines

Ability to work independently, without direct supervision, surfacing problems or issues as necessary

Detail-oriented with good judgment, critical thinking, and a strong capacity for spotting trends and/or anomalies

Excellent internet research skills

Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills

Experience working with large amounts of data

High computer literacy (use of keyboard shortcuts, efficient file/folder management, etc.) and advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Basic understanding of the current state of the digital/streaming music business, previous experience with the radio industry or related media industry job is a plus

Fluency/familiarity with languages other than English and Spanish is a plus

Experience with databases and other technological infrastructure is a plus BA/BS degree preferred, or substantial equivalent experience

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