Music Coordinator

Part-Time | 30 Hours/Week | Remote | Philippines Based
Schedule: Monday–Friday Los Angeles Time
Philippines Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 5am–11am (during U.S. daylight saving time)
Starting Rate: $4–$6/hour

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Please read this post carefully before applying. Attention to detail and exceptional English comprehension are essential for this role.

Who We Are

Rareform Audio and Black Sheep Music are music companies specializing in music for movie trailers, advertising, film, TV, games, and media.

We create and represent a large catalog of music and work directly with clients looking for the right music for major entertainment campaigns.

We're looking for someone who can become an expert on our catalog and learn how to connect what a client is asking for with the right music we have.

The Role

Your primary responsibility is music coordination and pitching.

A client might send us a brief describing a trailer, campaign, emotion, story, reference track, genre, character, or creative direction. Sometimes the request is straightforward. Other times it may be highly subjective, abstract, or difficult to interpret.

Your job is to decode what they actually need, search and understand our catalog, and find the tracks that creatively fit the brief.

This requires much more than matching keywords.

If a client asks for something that feels dark, restrained and psychological, but gradually evolves into something massive without becoming traditionally heroic, you need to understand what those words mean musically and creatively.

You'll need to ask yourself:

What is the client actually trying to accomplish? What emotion are they looking for? What musical characteristics create that feeling? Which tracks in our catalog could solve that problem?

Over time, we want you to develop a deep understanding of our catalog, our clients, and the extensive world of trailer music so you can confidently make those decisions yourself.

This is a specialized skill and we expect to train the right person extensively. You do not need to already be an expert in trailer music, but you need the musical instincts, communication skills, curiosity, and creative thinking required to become one.

What You'll Do:

- Learn our music catalog deeply and continually build your knowledge of what we have
- Receive and interpret creative music briefs from clients
- Understand references, emotions, genres, instrumentation, structure, energy, tone, and other musical direction
- Search our catalog and select tracks that genuinely fit each request
- Create and send focused music pitches to clients
- Learn individual clients' tastes and how their needs differ
- Develop a strong understanding of trailer music, trailer structure, and how music functions in entertainment marketing
- Communicate with our composers and internal team regarding custom requests, alternate versions, stems, edits, or other assets are needed
- Keep pitches, requests, feedback, and project information organized
- Respond quickly and accurately when time-sensitive requests come in

What We're Looking For:

Exceptional English is required. Not just conversational English.

Our clients often communicate through nuanced creative language. You need to understand subtle differences in meaning, emotion, tone, metaphor, and intention. Misinterpreting one word in a creative brief can completely change which music should be pitched.

Ideally, you're also a music maker yourself. You might be a composer, producer, musician, songwriter, DJ, or someone who spends a serious amount of time creating and analyzing music. This isn't strictly required, but it's strongly preferred.

Having hands-on musical experience allows you to hear a client brief differently. Rather than simply matching keywords like “dark,” “epic,” or “emotional,” you can think about instrumentation, arrangement, dynamics, structure, builds, rhythm, sound design, and how a track develops emotionally over time.

We're also looking for:

- Strong musical instincts and a genuine love of music
- Excellent listening skills and attention to detail
- Creative and open-minded thinking
- Ability to interpret abstract creative direction
- Ability to explain why a piece of music does or doesn't fit something
- Strong organization and follow-through
- Excellent written communication
- Curiosity and a desire to become an expert
- Ability to work independently after training
- Calmness and good judgment when requests are time-sensitive
- High standards and accountability

Music production experience is a major plus. If you compose, produce, play an instrument, sing, DJ, edit music, or have experience working around music professionally, we want to hear about it.

You Will Need to Learn Trailer Music

Trailer music is its own world.

You'll need to learn terminology, structures, genres, sound design, builds, acts, edit points, stems, alternate mixes, trailerizations, remixes, covers, and how music is used to tell a story in a trailer.

We'll teach you our world, but you need to be an infinite learner.

We don't expect you to know everything on day one. We do expect you to become dramatically better over time.

This Role Is a Good Fit If:

- You love discovering and analyzing music
- Someone can describe a feeling and your brain immediately starts thinking about what music could create it
- You're curious about why certain songs work against certain visuals or stories
- You're extremely strong in English
- You notice subtle details other people miss
- You enjoy solving creative problems where there isn't always one correct answer
- You want to develop real expertise rather than simply complete tasks
- You take ownership of your work

This Role Is NOT a Good Fit If
- You primarily want an administrative or data-entry position
- Your English comprehension is only conversational
- You don't listen to much music or aren't genuinely interested in it
- You rely entirely on keywords rather than creative interpretation
- You struggle with abstract or subjective instructions
- You need constant supervision once you've been trained
- You're careless with details
- You're looking for repetitive work where every task has one obvious answer

How to Apply

Please apply through our application form rather than messaging us through OnlineJobs.ph:
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You'll need to include a 3–5 minute Loom video.

In your Loom:

1. Introduce yourself.
Tell us about your background, your relationship with music, and why music coordination interests you.

2. Show us something you've done.
Music is ideal, but it can also be another project that demonstrates creativity, judgment, organization, or problem solving. Show us the actual work and explain what you did.

3. Show us how you think about music.
Share a film trailer with us that has a very unique choice of music and I want you to describe it for us. In detail.

4. Tell us why you think you'd become great at this job.
Not just why you want it. Why should we trust your judgment and invest the time into teaching you our catalog and the world of trailer music?

The Loom doesn't need to be professionally edited. We want to hear how you communicate, think, listen, and interpret creative ideas.

Applications without a Loom video will not be considered.