Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.
Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Adhitz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As the traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. Our technology enables them to access royalty payments 4x faster while also maximising the royalty collection amounts.
With over 400 employees in 12 offices around the world, Kobalt today represents over 31,000 artists and songwriters, 700,000 songs and 600 publishing companies. Kobalt is proud to work with artists, songwriters, and companies like Childish Gambino, Max Martin, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.
Website: www.kobaltmusic.com
Business Sector: Music Publishing & Technology
HQ Location: London
Office Locations: Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, New York.
Number of Employees: 450~
Engineering Teams : 12
CEO: Laurent Hubert
CTO: Nuno Guerreiro
Women in Leadership:
President & COO: Jeannette Perez
Chief Creative Officer: Sas Metcalfe
Head of Creative, UK Publishing & Recordings: Alison Donald
As the leaders of fairness and transparency in the music industry, Kobalt Music is equally dedicated to these values for our staff’s opportunities and career advancement. Cultivating, fostering, and preserving cultures of equity, inclusion, and diversity are part of our business objectives and mission. It is essential to provide an atmosphere that celebrates diversity and embraces inclusion. Each one of our employees and every client we serve - regardless of their geographic region, socioeconomic status, disability, language, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, or any other defining characteristic – should feel as though they are valued and welcomed.
Diversity: We embrace our staff’s differences
Championing diversity is a Kobalt core value. The collection of individual differences, unique capabilities, special talents, self-expression, innovations, inventiveness, knowledge, and life experiences of our team enhances our culture, reputation, and company achievements.
Equity: All employees have equal opportunity and access to advancement
Our employees remain our most precious asset and we work hard to invest in each employee. We strive to provide everyone at Kobalt with fair opportunities to grow and develop their careers, irrespective of their social identity and/or diverse characteristics.
Inclusion: We are on a journey to champion inclusivity as an organization
We provide a working environment where our employee’s diverse backgrounds and individual needs are respected and celebrated without a negative impact on their opportunities, interactions, or careers. We are a workplace that embraces open communication and understands that true success comes from everyone feeling they belong and can thrive while being their authentic self, free of harassment, discrimination, and microaggressions.
This journey takes all of us, and we continually strive to build an inclusive culture that reflects our mission and values.
Thrive on creativity.
Be a good partner.
Embrace technology.
Be transparent.
Keep it simple.
Champion diversity.
Educate everyone.
While we still have a lot of work to do, we have made meaningful progress. We remain committed to consistently reviewing, evaluating, and enhancing our employee programmes and practices around hiring and career progression. We’ll continue to challenge ourselves to beat the trend.
Together with our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic goals, we remain dedicated to creating progressive improvement and impact.
Manager phone screen (45mins)
Face to Face Interview-Culture Add Interview with People Manager and People &Culture (1hour)
Pair Programming (1hour)
System Design (1hour)
Technical Foundations & Knowledge Level(1hour)
