Coordinator, Music Tour Marketing

About the role

THE·TEAM’s music department provides representation to prominent music artists across all genres for live performance, touring, brand partnerships, and beyond. We are long-term career development strategists who work with artists to expand their reach and deepen their impact with audiences worldwide. The Tour Marketing Coordinator will work with the Director of Tour Marketing to develop, implement, and execute marketing and ticketing strategies focused on selling tickets and maximizing marketing budgets for client tours and one-offs nationally and internationally.

This position requires a proactive, detail-oriented, communicative, highly motivated, and organized individual who will work under limited supervision across multiple clients and tours. Flexibility, attention to detail, and the ability to multi-task are crucial in this high-volume role working across the Director’s rotating roster of more than 100 music clients.

Responsibilities

• Create, manage, and maintain tracking documents and spreadsheets for artist marketing for all tours.
• Coordinate tour announcements and on-sales for upcoming national and international shows and tours.
• Create and distribute marketing and ticketing emails to promoters.
• Collect localized creative, marketing plans, radio proposals, ticketing headers, ticketing audits, and additional materials from promoters.
• Distribute new content to promoter teams as received from artist teams.
• Cross-check all artist and promoter social media, official website platforms, ticketing links, pre-sales, and VIP program implementation to ensure accuracy.
• Act as a liaison between agents, clients/client teams, promoters, and other external partners.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions for creative marketing ideas to implement throughout tour campaigns.
• Work closely with the overall tour marketing department on building department-wide systems, creating presentations, submitting partner pre-sale requests, managing department interns, and additional initiatives.
• Cover client shows to provide visibility and support to artist and agent teams.

Requirements

• Must be based in Chicago, IL or willing to relocate (must have valid U.S. work authorization as visa sponsorship is not available).
• 3-4 years of professional experience working in the music industry in an office setting or in a live music marketing-related role (agency experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated maturity and tact when working with internal/external stakeholders, with strong interpersonal awareness and the ability to gauge group dynamics.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and use structure, processes, and systems to prioritize and streamline workflow.
• Strong attention to detail, clear communication, and enjoyment in catching discrepancies, grammatical errors, and formatting issues.
• Maintain confidentiality, discretion, and professionalism.
• Awareness/knowledge of key players in the live music space and understanding of the Pop/Rock/Urban ecosystems.
• Flexibility to work on tours worldwide across multiple time zones and territories.
• Proficiency in Meta Business Manager, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator), Box, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Proactive, reliable, resourceful, and assertive when necessary.
• Highly collaborative, adaptable mindset, and eager to jump in wherever needed to ensure a tour's success.
• Highly motivated and excited to continuously learn with the goal of growing in the role and department.

Pay

Base salary: $62,000 plus potential for discretionary bonus. Actual base salary depends on factors including market dynamics, location, experience, specialized skills, level of responsibility, and budgetary considerations.