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# Freelance Event Curator (outside of US/UK/CAN) at Sofar Sounds

- **Company:** Sofar Sounds
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** freelance
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sofarsounds/62ec6ac7-c963-4c87-82c1-13c3961bd594

## Job description

Note: While this is a freelance role, candidates must be local to the market in which they are applying.

## About Us

Born in a London flat in 2009, Sofar began as an answer to a growing problem: live music had lost its magic. It blossomed into a global movement that kept music at its heart while expanding to comedy, singles, dance, and more — all connected by Sofar's renowned track record for discovering rising talent.

Countless mainstage performers like Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, Chappell Roan, Leon Bridges, Olivia Dean, YEBBA, Teddy Swims, Remi Wolf, Hozier, and Lola Young have played Sofar shows early in their careers. More than just a gig, Sofar empowers artists by providing a professional platform that spans both the physical and digital worlds, handling everything from booking and promotion to filling the room, while granting artists access to an ecosystem of opportunities including brand partnerships, a powerful content engine, and global media placements.

No two Sofar shows are the same, but each pairs world-class live experience with beautiful and unique spaces — from a ski jump, cave, boat, or hidden museum room, to private living rooms, gardens, and rooftops. Regardless of the setting, each Sofar experience is an invitation to be truly present. Audiences fully immerse themselves in the performance, using their devices not as an escape, but as a tool to support the artist and stay connected to the community.

Those of us who work at Sofar are deeply passionate about what we do. When we’re not working, you can probably find us at a live show or telling anyone in earshot about the new song we can’t stop listening to. Discovering and supporting artists gets us out of bed every morning – and knowing that we’re creating memorable, intimate fan experiences worldwide drives our work forward.

## The Role

As a Freelance Curator, you’ll join a global network of entrepreneurial community builders and tastemakers, collaborating and learning from peers around the world while shaping the cultural landscape in your city. Our Curators have strong business instincts, cultural fluency, and deep local networks they can activate - from artists and venues to brands and community partners. They’re natural promoters who are passionate about creating impactful and memorable pop-up experiences that provide opportunities for real-life, meaningful engagement. Curators are resourceful, proactive, and driven; whether it’s figuring out how to creatively sell tickets or dealing with a live event curveball, they know how to get things done and thrive on the challenge.

This is an entrepreneurial, independent role designed for self-starters who want meaningful ownership over how Sofar shows up in their local community. This role encompasses all aspects of event planning and curation, marketing and promotion, and overall event execution. You’ll be supported by Sofar’s Global Communities team and have access to training, resources, and opportunities to connect with other creators around the world.

If this sounds like it’s up your alley, we can’t wait to meet you!

*Please note that this is a freelance, commission-based partnership, not a traditional employment role, offering flexibility and ownership in exchange for accountability and initiative. While the schedule is self-directed, much of the work naturally happens during evenings and weekends, when live events and community engagement come to life.

What You'll Do:

- Strengthen Sofar’s brand in your local community, promoting and selling tickets in your city with self-directed local marketing tactics.
- Create a vision to build and execute your city’s strategy - number of monthly shows, neighborhoods, show theme ideas, etc.
- Lead curation and booking for experiences in your city with the highest-quality, diverse set of artists and venues, continuing to grow our networks, as needed
- Own the staffing and quality of shows in your local market, working to ensure magical experiences that are rooted in hospitality
- Manage your city’s financial performance, ensuring financial success and health of every event
- Build relationships with local businesses to drive sales of sponsorships and private events
- Identify and build relationships with local organizations with like-minded audiences to build community, broaden our reach, and co-promote shows.
- Build relationships with local businesses to drive sales of sponsorships and private events
- Collaborate with other local leaders to grow your city through diverse experiences that generate buzz and amplify Sofar’s brand awareness
- Support Sofar’s Business Partnerships and Global Communities teams by ensuring high-quality curation and seamless event operations for inbound partnership opportunities that elevate the Sofar brand

Who You Are:

- You have deep connections to your local scene and play an active role in building community around it
- You have 3-5 years of experience in live event curation, production, and promotions
- You have experience selling event sponsorships or marketing activations, preferably in the live events or experiential marketing space
- You’re confident pitching ideas and event concepts to potential sponsors and have a track record of closing partnership deals
- You have a strong pulse on your city, the unique nature of each neighborhood, and where people like to spend their free time
- You’re a natural connector and excel at building relationships with diverse community-driven organizations, media partners, or local businesses that would add strategic and financial value to your vertical's growth
- You understand how to promote and build strategic alliances that will ultimately sell more tickets at our shows
- You take pride in your work and approach every opportunity with professionalism and ownership, ensuring the best experience for artists, venues, partners, and guests
- You have exceptional time management skills and are a clear communicator
- You can work autonomously, but understand the importance of remaining connected to the broader organization

Compensation:

This Freelance Curator role is compensated through a revenue share model based on event performance. Earnings are directly tied to revenue, which is distributed to cover artist payments, gig insurance, and the Curator payments. Actual earnings may vary depending on factors such as show volume and total revenue.

Curators are also eligible for sponsorship commissions for any sponsorships they sell, and may receive coordination fees for their assistance executing any partnerships sold by the global team.

Curators are expected to maintain profitability across all events. If an event incurs a loss, that amount will be recouped from a future profit-share payment.

Other Details:

Some cities may already have active Curators or multiple roles available. You must be comfortable working alongside other Curators and collaborating as part of a shared market, particularly in larger cities with multiple neighborhoods or vertical expansion opportunities.

Autonomy and support: You will lead locally while accessing global resources, training, and support from the Sofar team.

Flexible schedule: Events often take place on evenings and weekends.

If our mission and job opening resonates, you're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We are committed to creating a culture of belonging and building a diverse team that reflects a variety of lived experiences, perspectives, and skills.

## About Sofar Sounds

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sofar Sounds curates intimate, secret live music performances in unconventional spaces across 400+ cities worldwide, connecting audiences with emerging artists.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with a major office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Rocky Start, Rafe Offer, Dave Alexander

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Events Services / Live Music / Experiential Marketing
- **Target customers**: B2C (music fans seeking unique experiences), B2B (brands seeking authentic cultural activations), and artists (emerging talent looking for growth)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We exist to support artists" and "create space where music matters" [sofarsounds.com/careers](https://www.sofarsounds.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Secret Shows**: Curated, intimate live performances in hidden venues (living rooms, rooftops, museums, caves, etc.) with three undisclosed artists per show. Guests sign up for a surprise lineup and location.
- **Sofar Studios**: A dedicated creative division (launched 2025/2026) that designs custom live experiences, multi-city activations, and original storytelling for brand partners (e.g., Visa, Delta, Lexus, HOKA, Apple, Google). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sofarsounds)
- **Artist Development Platform**: A network of over 10,000 venues and tens of thousands of artists, providing early-career exposure – alumni include Billie Eilish, Hozier, Chappell Roan, Leon Bridges, and many more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$15M** (most recent fiscal year) ; Total Funding of **$87.8M** (7 rounds, including Series C of $25M led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures in May 2019) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sofar-sounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Battery Ventures, Union Square Ventures; Brand partners include 20th Century Fox, Anheuser-Busch, Arc’teryx, Delta, Lexus, Lyft, Pernod Ricard, Showtime, Sony, Visa, and many others.
- **Growth Signals**: 577 employees (down 4.9% YoY), but expanding into new verticals (comedy, dating, food & drink, dance). Sofar alumni have earned 129 Grammy nominations and 21 wins in the past four years. Presence in 64 countries across 400+ cities. [groover.co](https://groover.co)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global, trusted community**: 3M+ guests, 55,000+ shows, and a reputation for discovering talent before they break.
- **Unmatched venue network**: 10,000+ unique, non-traditional spaces (caves, boats, ski jump towers, etc.) that cannot be replicated.
- **Deep artist relationships**: Early access to rising stars; artists view Sofar as a career-launching platform.
- **Authenticity-first brand**: Rejects transactional ads and manufactured culture; built on 17 years of genuine community curation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sofar Studios expansion**: Monetizing brand partnerships through custom live experiences and storytelling, leveraging the global network.
- **Horizontal expansion**: Extending the "intimate experience" model into comedy, dating, and food & drink events.
- **Technology and AI**: Using AI tools in the hiring process and likely for curating shows and matching artists to venues.
- **Geographic growth**: Maintaining and deepening presence in 400+ cities while scaling the brand partnership business.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Passionate, diverse individuals from around the world" who "believe in having fun while working hard, treating each other with kindness." [sofarsounds.com/careers](https://www.sofarsounds.com/careers)
- **Core values**: Community, creativity, and supporting artists.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health plans, culture of learning and development, flexible work hours and time off, offsites and happy hours, free Sofar shows around the world.
- **Work environment**: Offices in London (HQ) and New York; roles listed as on-site or freelance/remote depending on position. The company is described as having an "on-site workspace" but offers flexible hours.
- **Engineering/creative culture**: Employees are encouraged to bring their own creative energy; AI is used to support parts of the hiring process (reviewing applications, analyzing resumes) but human judgment remains final. [jobs.lever.co/sofarsounds](https://jobs.lever.co/sofarsounds)
- **Global community**: Opportunity to work with colleagues and artists across 51 countries.

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co/sofarsounds](https://jobs.lever.co/sofarsounds) – Career page with current openings and AI hiring notice
2. [sofarsounds.com/careers](https://www.sofarsounds.com/careers) – Official careers page with values, benefits, and culture
3. [help.sofarsounds.com](https://help.sofarsounds.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019163298-What-is-Sofar-Sounds) – Official description of Sofar Sounds
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sofar-sounds) – Company profile with financials, employee count, offices
5. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sofarsounds) – LinkedIn post announcing Sofar Studios and brand partnerships
6. [groover.co](https://groover.co) – Company details including revenue, funding, employee count, locations

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