By D. Dona Le

Before college, Eagle Rock native Megan Goldstein AB ‘05 “was determined to go to New York City. I really wanted to go to Columbia, and if Columbia didn’t work out, I was going to New York University. Then when I got into Harvard, I thought, ‘Whoa. Yeah. Okay.’”

Today, Goldstein still lives in Northeast Los Angeles and is currently Vice President of Synch Licensing at BMG, a position that perfectly marries her training as a musician and her love of film and television.

“I am a musician and I’ve always felt like a musician, but it's not that I wanted to be a clarinetist in a symphony,” Goldstein says. “I just always thought of myself as a musician. I made music every day and practiced every day—that was the fabric of my life.”

Company: Sony Music Entertainment
Location: Culver City, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 years

Job Description:

A&R – Analytics

• Research and evaluate new music performance using a variety of internal and external platforms
• Monitor music blogs and digital magazines for music premieres and top chart/playlist placements
• Generate weekly reports and lead meetings to brief team on artists of interest
• Work with the analytics team to develop queries, dashboards, and other identification tools
• Create artist-specific reports detailing audience growth and consumption relative to similar artists
• Compile and monitor stream count and social media metrics for priority artists
• Identify and interpret relevant data in the context of the current music landscape
• Assess and summarize tendencies in consumption source across genres/subgenres
• Proactively identify additional areas for analysis and identification of new artists
• Track global independent artists and labels, identify potential partnership opportunities

Company: Sony Music Entertainment
Location: New York, NY
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 2 years

Job Description: 

The Coordinator, Creative Group position will assist and support the Vice President, Design for Legacy Records with scheduling meetings, travel, screening calls, expense reports, and other administrative duties.  He/She will facilitate the Art Department’s design administration needs by handling photo research for Legacy projects, and processing documents necessary for licensing images and setting up photo shoots, including artwork agreements, invoices, vendor setups, etc. This position includes but is not limited to the following:

Company: The Orchard
Location: New York, NY
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Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: The Orchard is a leading music distribution company operating in over 40 markets worldwide –  distributing music from independent artists including Ozuna, Skepta, Jorja Smith, John Prine, and Kelsea Ballerini. With cutting edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with labels of all sizes to make their music and video available across hundreds of digital and physical retailers around the world. At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.

Company: Sony Music Entertainment
Location: New York, NY
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 years

Job Description: As Assistant Social Media Manager, you will obsess over building communities for our partners and stable of shows. You have your pulse on the latest social media trends and tactics that will help Sony Music Podcasts drive tune in and engage deeply with listeners. This position is part of Sony Music’s podcast team in New York City and reports to the VP of Marketing for Podcasting.

Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: Are you excited about coordinating and executing daily operations of the TV Music team? If so, this role that supports the Director, Music Production and the Director, Music is a great opportunity for you!

Company: Capitol Music Group
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: 

The chance to join the world’s most iconic music company as an A&R does not come up very often! We are currently looking for creative executives with a passion for Pop music to join our A&R team at Capitol Records and oversee the full artist cycle, from scouting to signing to recording to marketing. The successful candidate will work to grow our artist roster and deliver songs and other opportunities for our artists.

The ideal A&R candidate will be highly creative but have a strong business sense, communication skills, and follow-through. They will be an expert in Pop genre and have a deep understanding of and relationships with those genres’ key players and marketplace trends. They will have forward-thinking ideas on how to select and guide artists to commercial success. These position(s) will be LA-based.

Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: Are you excited about coordinating and executing daily operations of the TV Music team? If so, this role that supports the Director, Music Production and the Director, Music is a great opportunity for you!

Company: Interscope Records
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 0-2 years of administrative or internship experience

Job Description: Interscope Records is seeking a highly-motived Administrative Assistant to join the Urban Marketing team. This exciting role requires superior attention to detail, great organizational skills, the ability to meet tight deadlines, and to juggle multiple requests. Must be very efficient and highly attuned to the smallest of details, as well as being able to multi-task and working on tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment is crucial. No task is too small and no challenge too great. A “can-do” attitude is essential.

Company: Paramount, Music
Location: Hollywood, CA
Start Date: 
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 2

Job Description: This position is responsible for providing administrative support to the President of Music.

• Maintains complex calendar, contacts, and updates for President, Motion Picture Music
• Screens heavy call and email volume, rolls calls, updates call sheet, arranges appropriate follow-ups
• Arranges and record meetings, calls, and event facilities for President, Motion Picture Music
• Drafts emails and notices for executive
• Coordinates frequent and complex travel itineraries; compile documents for travel-related meetings for President, Motion Picture Music
• Monitors and submits expense reports
• Purchases gifts, prepare for presentation and delivery
• Maintains detailed physical and digital files of corporate documents
• Maintains organization and distribution of mail, office supplies, and storage inventories