Head of Music Creator Partnerships

We’re looking for a passionate and entrepreneurial partnerships leader to join the Marketplace team in New York and drive our partnerships strategy. The Marketplace team builds Spotify's creator products while driving toward Spotify’s mission: to give one million artists the opportunity to live off their art. Ultimately, you’ll be a key part of a team reimagining the way artists and their teams leverage the Spotify platform, share their art, and build their careers.

In Marketplace, our creator products - Spotify for Artists and Soundtrap - enable artists and their teams to create music and connect with collaborators, in an effort to grow and monetize their audiences. And our content platform ingests, understands, and safeguards the world's audio.

Spotify for Artists is the music industry’s leading creator platform with over one million artists, labels, and managers using it monthly to dive into robust streaming data, pitch music to playlist editors, craft their artist profile, collaborate with their team, sell goods like merch and tickets, and ultimately grow their fanbases.

As Creator Partnerships Lead, you will drive a partnerships strategy that drives positive sentiment toward Spotify for Artists, accelerates creator adoption of our offerings, and positions Spotify as the ultimate place to build, reach, and monetize an audience.

The right candidate will be able to balance day-to-day responsibilities of partner management while working closely with our internal partners to drive an innovative partnerships strategy. Most importantly, this candidate will be passionate about ensuring that our relationships are a win-win-win partnership for the partner, the artist, and Spotify!

For this position, it will be desirable if candidates are located in the New York area within the United States. Nevertheless we are a distributed first company now, therefore we are open for candidates in other regions within this country.

More information at the end.

Will you join us to impact the way the world experiences music and audio? Keep on reading!

What you’ll do:

• Drive and execute a creator partnerships strategy that ensures Spotify for Artists is the best place for music creators to build, reach, and monetize an audience
• Develop the Spotify for Artists brand among creators through powerful value partnerships
• Set targets for our Marketplace creator partnerships and retain ultimate responsibility for delivering against them
• Enact experiments with new products and services partnerships that support creators’ career goals and scale those that will best meet their needs
• Maintain a deep understanding of the music creator landscape from the largest brands to the web3 projects just about to break out
• Collaborate with our R&D teams to ensure our business and product strategies align, but feel comfortable pressing ahead with inquisitive partnerships that are not product-dependent
• Develop scalable processes to manage multiple partnerships simultaneously while prioritizing those that will have the greatest impact on Spotify’s relationship to creators
• Proactively work with Spotify for Artists leadership, Creator Marketing, and Spotify’s Corporate Development and Business Development teams to achieve commercial outcomes
• Build the Spotify for Artists brand through meaningful partnerships that improve artists’ ability to build their careers and fanbases
• Ensure that Spotify's commitments in a partner relationship are delivered (e.g., marketing, data reporting, etc.) as well as follow-up on partner commitments.

Who you are:

• You are dedicated to music and all things creative
• You have 7+ years of relevant partnerships experience in the Entertainment or Technology industries, ideally with a focus on creators
• You have the ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally to drive internal alignment because you pride yourself on getting stuff done
• You are able to juggle competing demands from multiple external partners while advocating for the creator and partner internally
• You are data-driven and tenaciously prioritize partnership ideas that achieve commercial goals
• You are well organized, dedicated, with the ability to plan and deliver on tight deadlines and pay exceptional attention to detail
• You have experience negotiating, closing, and managing complex global partnerships with the largest brands and the world’s most innovative companies
• You are self-motivated with a bias toward action; you won’t be afraid to step in when needed.
• Your communication skills in English are extremely effective whether verbal or written

Where you are:

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

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Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 345 million users.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.