We’re Hiring
Last.fm is growing. We’re currently looking for great people to join our team.
How to Apply
To apply for any of these positions, please send an email to , with the job title as your subject. Note, no agencies will be considered.
Please include a short cover letter, with the following:
- Your Last.fm user name
- Your CV
- Your current notice period
- Your eligibility to work in the UK
- Your salary expectation
We reserve the right to be unimpressed if you can’t follow these simple instructions. Unless otherwise stated, all positions will be full time, and based at Last.fm HQ in London N1 (see how to get there).
Last.fm does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis covered by local law. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Last.fm and need special assistance due to a disability or accommodation for a disability, please specify this in your application.
Marketing Manager
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Marketing Manager to join our Marketing/Product team. This is an exciting and creative role working in the music entertainment space.
Main purpose of the job
Develop and grow Last.fm’s marketing team and oversee the execution of all consumer, industry and sales marketing activities.
Key Objectives
•Develop market awareness and drive audience growth for Last.fm in core markets while balancing the requirements of a global brand
•Clarify and maintain a strong brand voice for Last.fm
•Create strong direct and social consumer marketing programs
•Create and execute subsequent GTM and sustain marketing plans
•Establish clear and measurable objectives for our campaigns
•To evaluate customer research, market conditions, competitor data and implement marketing plan alterations as needed
•Plan advertising and promotional activities
Responsibilities
•Responsible for the conceptualization and functioning of marketing programs and partnership marketing strategy
•Oversees all marketing and promotional staff and activities
•Devise and implement key messages, positioning and marketing strategy for various product launches such as beta launches, new feature sets, content franchises, music event
•Manage marketing budget against objectives and success metrics as well as the annual Last.fm marketing plan and calendar
•Work with Last.fm’s product managers to create bold and innovative go-to-market strategies and tactics
•Work with other marketing counterparts within the CBS family to leverage cross-promotions and assets
•Work closely with sales managers to ensure we have a strong message tailors to advertisers
•Manager creative execution either through an internal resource or external agencies
•Utilize online metrics and date to inform and gauge marketing activities
•Collaborate with PR to develop PR strategy and ideas
Key contacts (Who will they need to work with internally & externally to get the job done)
•Last.fm Product Team in London
•CBSiMG Marketing Team in NYC
•Last.fm/CBSiMG Sales teams in NYC and London, particularly the Sales Marketing Manager
•Last.fm’s London Public Relations support (Edelman)
Person Specification
Type of Experience
Essential
•4-7 years of experience at the marketing manager level with international consumer internet companies
•History of managing small but effective teams
•A proven ability to manage to a budget, working with 3rd party agencies and external design resources
•Hands-on experience devising and executing on social campaigns across social networks
•Direct email marketing experience
•Experience with advertising media buys (CPC and SEM in particular)
Preferred
• Familiarity with Last.fm’s core features and community
• Audience segmentation experience
• Audience development background
Qualifications
Essential
University Degree /equivalent experience
Preferred
A post-graduate degree in marketing
Skills
Essential
•Excellent communication and presentation skills – written and spoken
•Excellent brief-writing skills
•Fantastic copywriter
•Approachable; must be able to multi-task
•The ability to work in complex environment with high energy levels is also required
Personality
Essential
•Results oriented and entrepreneurial approach to marketing.
•Self-starter and creative thinker
•Strong focus and attention to detail
•Diplomatic and consensus builder
Apply
Main purpose of the job
Develop and grow Last.fm’s marketing team and oversee the execution of all consumer, industry and sales marketing activities.
Key Objectives
•Develop market awareness and drive audience growth for Last.fm in core markets while balancing the requirements of a global brand
•Clarify and maintain a strong brand voice for Last.fm
•Create strong direct and social consumer marketing programs
•Create and execute subsequent GTM and sustain marketing plans
•Establish clear and measurable objectives for our campaigns
•To evaluate customer research, market conditions, competitor data and implement marketing plan alterations as needed
•Plan advertising and promotional activities
Responsibilities
•Responsible for the conceptualization and functioning of marketing programs and partnership marketing strategy
•Oversees all marketing and promotional staff and activities
•Devise and implement key messages, positioning and marketing strategy for various product launches such as beta launches, new feature sets, content franchises, music event
•Manage marketing budget against objectives and success metrics as well as the annual Last.fm marketing plan and calendar
•Work with Last.fm’s product managers to create bold and innovative go-to-market strategies and tactics
•Work with other marketing counterparts within the CBS family to leverage cross-promotions and assets
•Work closely with sales managers to ensure we have a strong message tailors to advertisers
•Manager creative execution either through an internal resource or external agencies
•Utilize online metrics and date to inform and gauge marketing activities
•Collaborate with PR to develop PR strategy and ideas
Key contacts (Who will they need to work with internally & externally to get the job done)
•Last.fm Product Team in London
•CBSiMG Marketing Team in NYC
•Last.fm/CBSiMG Sales teams in NYC and London, particularly the Sales Marketing Manager
•Last.fm’s London Public Relations support (Edelman)
Person Specification
Type of Experience
Essential
•4-7 years of experience at the marketing manager level with international consumer internet companies
•History of managing small but effective teams
•A proven ability to manage to a budget, working with 3rd party agencies and external design resources
•Hands-on experience devising and executing on social campaigns across social networks
•Direct email marketing experience
•Experience with advertising media buys (CPC and SEM in particular)
Preferred
• Familiarity with Last.fm’s core features and community
• Audience segmentation experience
• Audience development background
Qualifications
Essential
University Degree /equivalent experience
Preferred
A post-graduate degree in marketing
Skills
Essential
•Excellent communication and presentation skills – written and spoken
•Excellent brief-writing skills
•Fantastic copywriter
•Approachable; must be able to multi-task
•The ability to work in complex environment with high energy levels is also required
Personality
Essential
•Results oriented and entrepreneurial approach to marketing.
•Self-starter and creative thinker
•Strong focus and attention to detail
•Diplomatic and consensus builder
Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Purpose & Background of Role
We're seeking a top notch data scientist with strong programming skills to join the small and very enthusiastic Music Information Retrieval team at Last.fm. This is a full-time position, based in London.
Are you an experienced scientist as well as a hands-on implementer who is able to work around constraints in disk speed, memory size and CPU cycles? Do you want to help design, implement and evaluate playlisting and recommendation algorithms that reach millions of music lovers each month? Do you take pride in being clever and solving difficult problems creatively? Are you full of ideas and always looking for new ways of making use out of data? Are you an advocate for data-driven development and fully capable of conducting a proper A/B test?
The MIR team works with large volumes of audio (millions of tracks), user data (tens of billions of scrobbles), and metadata (7,593 different spellings of Britney Spears). We run data processing and analysis jobs on our own Hadoop Cluster, and write and maintain scalable realtime services including several recommendation and playlisting engines. We encourage publication of research results and contribution to open source projects.
We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic scientist to help us explore and learn from our rich datasets, build services and infrastructure, conduct data-driven evaluations and experiments, improve our recommendation and playlisting services, and help drive innovation in our website, API, client and mobile applications.
Requirements:
•Highly fluent in Python and either C++ or Java (or both)
•Passion for machine learning and data mining
•Proficient with databases, both relational and non-relational
•Experience with Hadoop and analysing terabyte-scale datasets
•Familiar with data-driven development and split testing
•Basic understanding of common web technologies
• Comfortable with the Unix CLI and shell scripting
•MS or PhD in computer science or equivalent
• Track record in music information retrieval or recommender systems research is a plus
Apply
Purpose & Background of Role
We're seeking a top notch data scientist with strong programming skills to join the small and very enthusiastic Music Information Retrieval team at Last.fm. This is a full-time position, based in London.
Are you an experienced scientist as well as a hands-on implementer who is able to work around constraints in disk speed, memory size and CPU cycles? Do you want to help design, implement and evaluate playlisting and recommendation algorithms that reach millions of music lovers each month? Do you take pride in being clever and solving difficult problems creatively? Are you full of ideas and always looking for new ways of making use out of data? Are you an advocate for data-driven development and fully capable of conducting a proper A/B test?
The MIR team works with large volumes of audio (millions of tracks), user data (tens of billions of scrobbles), and metadata (7,593 different spellings of Britney Spears). We run data processing and analysis jobs on our own Hadoop Cluster, and write and maintain scalable realtime services including several recommendation and playlisting engines. We encourage publication of research results and contribution to open source projects.
We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic scientist to help us explore and learn from our rich datasets, build services and infrastructure, conduct data-driven evaluations and experiments, improve our recommendation and playlisting services, and help drive innovation in our website, API, client and mobile applications.
Requirements:
•Highly fluent in Python and either C++ or Java (or both)
•Passion for machine learning and data mining
•Proficient with databases, both relational and non-relational
•Experience with Hadoop and analysing terabyte-scale datasets
•Familiar with data-driven development and split testing
•Basic understanding of common web technologies
• Comfortable with the Unix CLI and shell scripting
•MS or PhD in computer science or equivalent
• Track record in music information retrieval or recommender systems research is a plus
Senior Desktop and Mobile Developer
Last.fm is looking for a Senior Desktop and Mobile Application developer to join our small team of enthusiastic, music loving experts, and help millions of users find music they enjoy every day. Want to participate in building the next generation of Last.fm? You will invent and then create new music discovery features that build on Last.fm's unique understanding of the listening habits of a worldwide community.
You will:
•Design, build and maintain music discovery, scrobbling and player applications.
•Lead a small team scoping, scheduling and delivering features in an agile environment.
•Have many opportunities to be inventive, and have your ideas expanded into full features.
•Collaborate with a strong team of developers, designers, and other product professionals.
You are:
•An experienced professional software developer.
•Enthusiastic about tackling hard problems.
•Expert in some combination of C++, Objective-C and Java.
•Comfortable programming “close to the metal” when necessary.
•Competent scoping project work
•Comfortable with agile development techniques.
Required skills:
•Demonstrable GUI programming experience.
•Experience with object-oriented design patterns.
•Experience with iOS and Android SDKs.
•Cross-platform GUI development with Qt SDK.
•Version Control and Automated Build Systems.
•Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
As a bonus:
•Familiar with Last.fm’s API
•Passion for music
Apply
You will:
•Design, build and maintain music discovery, scrobbling and player applications.
•Lead a small team scoping, scheduling and delivering features in an agile environment.
•Have many opportunities to be inventive, and have your ideas expanded into full features.
•Collaborate with a strong team of developers, designers, and other product professionals.
You are:
•An experienced professional software developer.
•Enthusiastic about tackling hard problems.
•Expert in some combination of C++, Objective-C and Java.
•Comfortable programming “close to the metal” when necessary.
•Competent scoping project work
•Comfortable with agile development techniques.
Required skills:
•Demonstrable GUI programming experience.
•Experience with object-oriented design patterns.
•Experience with iOS and Android SDKs.
•Cross-platform GUI development with Qt SDK.
•Version Control and Automated Build Systems.
•Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
As a bonus:
•Familiar with Last.fm’s API
•Passion for music
Technology Development Operations Engineer
Purpose Of Role
Last.fm is looking for a DevOps engineer to join our team. You'll be working on gluing together the numerous components (both in-house and
open-source) that keep Last.fm running.
You'll be familiar with a variety of languages, and collaborate with people across all the tech teams at Last.fm. This will involve having input into architecture and software decisions, and contributing ideas and code, both to in-house projects, and to the pieces of open source infrastructure in use at Last.fm
You will:
* Support developers, and facilitate cross team projects
* Innovate where necessary, testing new approaches
* Harbour a dislike for quick hacks, and an appreciation for reproducible systems engineering
You are:
* Enthusiastic
* Able to quickly assimilate new technologies
* Optimistic by nature, pessimistic through experience
* Battle hardened
Required skills - As many as possible
* In depth knowledge of Linux and TCP/IP
* Experience with Perl, and open source perl projects
* C skills, for hacking on Apache modules and similar
* SQL (specifically PostgreSQL and MySQL)
* Understanding of web architectures, caching, and cross-stack performance
* Experience with fast k/v stores - Redis, Kyoto Cabinet/Tycoon, etc
Apply
Last.fm is looking for a DevOps engineer to join our team. You'll be working on gluing together the numerous components (both in-house and
open-source) that keep Last.fm running.
You'll be familiar with a variety of languages, and collaborate with people across all the tech teams at Last.fm. This will involve having input into architecture and software decisions, and contributing ideas and code, both to in-house projects, and to the pieces of open source infrastructure in use at Last.fm
You will:
* Support developers, and facilitate cross team projects
* Innovate where necessary, testing new approaches
* Harbour a dislike for quick hacks, and an appreciation for reproducible systems engineering
You are:
* Enthusiastic
* Able to quickly assimilate new technologies
* Optimistic by nature, pessimistic through experience
* Battle hardened
Required skills - As many as possible
* In depth knowledge of Linux and TCP/IP
* Experience with Perl, and open source perl projects
* C skills, for hacking on Apache modules and similar
* SQL (specifically PostgreSQL and MySQL)
* Understanding of web architectures, caching, and cross-stack performance
* Experience with fast k/v stores - Redis, Kyoto Cabinet/Tycoon, etc
Jobs in other parts of CBSi
If none of these roles take your fancy, take a look at our other London based roles within the rest of CBSi. http://www.cbsinteractive.co.uk/jobs/
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