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Company Overview:

Extreme Music, is a production music library that forms part of Sony ATV and the Sony group of companies. Extreme Music is the third largest Music Library in the world and has operations in Berlin, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles and London. More information about Extreme Music is available at www.extrememusic.com

Departmental Overview:

The web department functions primarily to develop our online presence and develop our digital delivery mechanism (Get Trax) and to maintain our award winning website & various online systems. The website is viewed as the companies shop window & is used in pitches and marketing presentations, as such Extreme Music strives to have one of the very best websites on the web to aid in creating business opportunities and ensuring clients are encouraged to use the website as a delivery mechanism for the company’s catalogue.

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Role Objective:

To develop and maintain the company’s web presence.

Summary of Role Responsibilities:

To devise and maintain long and short term strategies for the implementation of new online functionality.

• Developing and maintaining Extreme’s online player: Get Trax
• Designing and action scripting elements for the Extreme Music website
• Website updates: news items, clips, showreel
• Creating minisites for product launches and new releases

Design & create website & web systems for clients & marketing staff

• Creating new or additional functionality to aid clients in their music searches
• Creating additional functionality to aid clients in fulfilling license applications
• Creating and branding in-house systems to aid marketing staff with music searches
• E-Invites / Mailers E-Invites / Mailers for the marketing department
• Issues fixing bugs/errors on site, web database & search tool, web server, etc.

Maintaining the Extreme Music Online Player

• Content uploads
• Fixing links, ensuring images and files are loading
• Investigating and fixing bugs on an ad hoc basis
• Routine checks and updates to the 2 web servers, uploading files installing software etc. liaising with the London office to ensure music files are being updated

General Admin

• Ensuring local back-ups are made
• Ensuring routine updates are made for the webservers
• Ensuring a current list of username & passwords are kept + all registration keys/serial numbers etc for all web software

Qualifications/ Experience:

Essential

• Educated to college standard
• At least 3 years experience in building and maintaining websites

Desirable

• College degree standard in design or multimedia
• Experience in designing e-commerce sites
• Experience of designing & maintaining music sites or audition tools

Skills/ Abilities:

Essential

• Flash 8 & 9, MX2004 Professional, Dreamweaver, html, Adobe Photoshop
• Sound and video editing experience
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Organised and thorough, with the ability to co-ordinate, prioritise and multitask
• Able to work effectively autonomously as well as part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to understand process and follow procedure
• Ability to work effectively at a fast pace
• Ability to produce effective new ideas with little or no brief

Desirable

• Cool Edit Pro, Adobe Aftereffects
• Knowledge of XML, ASP, SQL scripting
• 3D modeling, animations

Disposition:

Essential

• Good work ethic
• Proactive and shows initiative
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• High levels of integrity and honesty
• Team player – able to work well and manage relationships with others

Desirable

• Shows genuine interest in the industry and type of work

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NOTE: The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above description and may be modified at any time by the Company.