As part of the North American Label Partnerships team within the Music Team at Spotify, you will be responsible for nurturing and cultivating partnerships with Canada labels while executing impactful initiatives and global release campaigns. You will lead Spotify’s efforts with labels and key industry collaborators as the most senior member of the Label Partnerships team in Canada. This role is responsible for managing the team, providing careful and ongoing review of industry and audience insights, and partnering closely with various cross-functional teams at Spotify (including, without limitation, Editorial, Marketing, Artist Partnerships, and PR) to achieve collective strategic goals for the Music Team across Canada, North America and Globally.
For the Label Partnerships Lead, Canada role, we seek a proven industry leader based in Toronto who is an enthusiastic music fan and a proven people manager, with a record of cultivating a culture of teamwork and collaboration and with experience fostering senior industry partner relationships. This leader must be able to prioritize, multi-task, and manage a team who is building, operating, and executing complex campaigns.
What You'll Do
Oversee Spotify’s relationship with labels and distribution partners in Canada, serving as an energetic and approachable senior executive representing Spotify.
Manage, mentor, and empower the Canada Label Partnerships team, providing vision, strategic guidance, and problem solving while guiding them through campaign planning, relationship building, and cross-functional process execution.
Track, review, and evaluate artist and label priorities, as well as culturally relevant moments, and identify in collaboration with a cross-functional team those artists that Spotify will support in on and off platform promotions.
Become fluent with Spotify data, insights and tooling to inform strategic marketing on and off platform!
Work directly with Canadian label and distribution partners to gather insights and develop executive-level priority campaigns, from brief development, conception, production all the way through execution. Who You Are
You have 5+ years of leadership or management experience in the music industry
You have 10+ years of experience building either global marketing campaigns or handling complex projects and a shown ability to manage multiple top priority projects simultaneously.
An established passion for and engagement with the Canadian music community and are in tune to various genres and cultures of music coming out of Canada.
Exhibit a clear understanding of the marketplace, competitors, and current trends and innovations with strong relationships throughout the industry.
Demonstrated exceptional ability to build and maintain relationships and can effectively handle relationships with senior executives.
Willingness to travel and participate in night and weekend events, where senior leadership presence is needed. Where You'll Be
This role is located in Toronto, Ontario office and will require 2-3 days in the office per week.
