Head of Marketing

  • Full-time
  • Contract type: Regular

Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Artist Services, as the Marketing Senior Leader, you will build a forward-thinking marketing team. 

As the Marketing Senior Leader, you will move beyond providing simple market access to driving "Access to Success.". You will lead a forward-thinking team to craft complex, multi-territory creative campaigns that prioritize long-term artist development over short-term gains. The ideal candidate is to have an ROI-driven approach to understand the artist development, can build a long-term strategy in close partnership with the sales team (A&R and Marketing Project team). This position would be responsible for building Top charting artists in the country.

Core responsibilities 

  • Artist Development Leadership: Lead and mentor Project Managers in architecting robust artist development strategies specifically tailored to targeted markets, ensuring that "access" is effectively converted into measurable "success"

  • Strategic Execution & Scaling: Lead the deployment of the Breaking Artist Strategy, setting high standards for audience building, creative planning, and sustainable growth while managing the day-to-day execution of marketing plans and artist relationships 

  • Data & Performance Analysis: Oversee the analysis of audience, sales, and performance history to monitor core Artist Success KPIs, ensuring performance is tracked regularly and corrective actions are taken when needed 

  • Marketing & Brand Expertise: Design, manage, and evaluate innovative marketing campaigns for "digital artists," conducting competitor research and market trend analysis to ensure production and creative assets cut through digital noise 

  • Team Orchestration: Harmonize the Marketing team (Editorial, Media Partnerships, Digital Marketing, and Video) to build creative and profitable plans that drive market share and consumption across digital services

  • Cross-Functional & Global Synergy: Coordinate with Local, SEA, and Central Artist Success teams—as well as in-house departments like Media Buy—through consistent business reviews to ensure every unit delivers effectively against global priorities 

  • DSP Partnership Development: Deepen strategic partnerships with local DSPs (e.g., Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube) to increase marketing opportunities, specifically leveraging technical levers like Discovery Mode to increase market share 

  • Financial Accountability & ROI: Oversee marketing budget allocation, ensuring all spend is linked to clear ROI, KPI measurement, and profitable artist growth outcomes

  • Vendor & Investment Management: Manage third-party vendors using a clear scoring framework to assess effectiveness and impact across both Marketing & Promotion Budget and Opex investments 

  • Mentoring & Upskilling: Support and provide guidance on marketing key results to the team, upskilling members in sophisticated digital marketing to deliver better value to artists 

 

Qualifications

  • 10+ years extensive experience in B2B or B2C marketing leader roles within the music, media, or high-growth consumer brand sectors

  • Proven ability to manage complex, long-term brand lifecycles, moving products or talent through the marketing funnel from initial discovery to sustainable commercial success

  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical digital trends and "market signals" into actionable strategies for cross-functional teams and external partners. 

  • A commercially oriented leader capable of managing complex economic models and delivering "significantly positive" financial returns. You should be comfortable balancing high-level creative vision with rigorous data-driven results. 

  • Hands-on experience managing and leading a Marketing Team with strong exposure to digital marketing, media buy, etc

  • Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and decision-making skills

  • Successful track record in senior marketing roles and creating marketing campaigns

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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