Job Description
Who We Are:
SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners - in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SiriusXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through SiriusXM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.
Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. Pandora provides consumers with a uniquely-personalized music and podcast listening experience with its proprietary Music Genome Project® and Podcast Genome Project® technology. Pandora is available through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with more than 2,000 connected products.
How you’ll make an impact:
The Curator III helps to oversee a large and ever-evolving ecosystem of metadata that enables key listener and product experiences at SiriusXM and Pandora. The Metadata Curator is responsible for both proactively creating metadata and tags, as well as monitoring and QAing the flow of automated and semi-automated metadata streams. This role monitors priority queues for tag coverage and quality control, works with a variety of metadata sources and consumers, and helps guide taxonomy development and tagging best practices. They are instrumental in providing human in the loop feedback to NLP models which guide our content understanding, and an important partner in our cross-functional relationships with Data Science, Engineering, Content Programming, and Content Operations.
The Curator III will help enable exceptional end-to-end tag data. It is a role with a unique opportunity to contribute to innovations guiding the next generation of tag infrastructure at SiriusXM. Successful candidates will be passionate about contributing to data solutions and systems that drive both front-end and back-end user experiences.
What you’ll do:
- Monitor and help guide the development, quality assurance, and maintenance of taxonomies used to classify and understand a variety of SiriusXM and Pandora content types
- Ensure metadata coverage and accuracy across priority content streams and workflows, including tagging and curation as needed
- Collaborate with data science partners in the development and training of NLP models
- Contribute to the creation of documentation and training materials geared toward a variety of audiences
- Update taxonomies and metadata in preparation for and in response to newsworthy, cultural, and editorial events
- Triage metadata issues and respond to tagging requests, as needed
- Provide feedback on metadata tools, processes, and systems, helping to guide improvements and efficiency
- Contribute to analysis on taxonomy and metadata performance and coverage across key use cases
What you’ll need:
- Experience with metadata pipelines and metadata at scale
- Experience with metadata at a media streaming organization
- Knowledge of taxonomy standards and best-practices for metadata tagging
- Knowledge of music and talk streaming landscape is preferred
- Excellent time management skills; the ability to prioritize, multitask, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Google Sheets and Google Docs
- Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
Bonus qualifications
- Master’s degree in library science, information management, or information science
- Experience with SQL or other query languages
- 3+ years experience in a media streaming ecosystem
At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $58,000 - $84,725, and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.
Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.