Senior Streaming Partnerships Manager (9 Month FTC)

Our Digital Streaming Partnerships team are responsible for Sony Music UK’s relationships with Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, Vevo, Deezer & SoundCloud. This is an exciting opportunity to get hands-on experience in the inner workings of a major record label and how artists grow their audiences on these platforms, as well as an overall insight into the way in which a record label works on a day-to-day basis.

As a Senior Streaming Partnerships Manager, you will work with all music genres and closely with all of Sony’s label groups (such as Columbia and RCA). You’ll manage our relationship with Spotify, helping to maximize visibility for our artist’s releases and shape bespoke marketing campaigns.

What you’ll do:

• Relationship Management: Proactively manage relationships with various label teams within Sony Music UK and manage the UK company’s relationships with the platform. Act as the team point person for one of Sony’s key labels, attending their label meetings and fielding related questions from the label teams.
• Best Practice Education: Drive education of internal teams on best practices for artist positioning, fan engagement, and growing audiences on the platform.
• Artist Partnership Campaigns: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and execute bespoke artist partnerships with the platform.
• Partner Meetings: Plan and host regular in-person meetings to present and introduce our artists.
• Music Pitching: Manage the pitch process of new releases and ongoing priority projects to ensure optimal visibility.

Who you are:

• Experience working within the music industry, digital music sector, or a related entertainment, media or technology business.
• Strong knowledge of Spotify, streaming strategy and the wider digital service provider (DSP) landscape.
• Passionate about music, culture and the ways fans engage with artists in a digital environment.
• A confident relationship builder who can influence and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to use data and insights to inform decisions and identify opportunities for growth.
• Highly organised, with excellent time management skills and strong attention to detail.
• A proactive self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• An effective communicator and presenter, comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels.
• Curious about emerging trends, technologies and innovations shaping the future of music and streaming.

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day.
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best.
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next.
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks.
• There’s also time off over winter break.

Equal Opportunities: As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.