Our Digital 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.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, music-passionate Junior Partnerships Manager for our team. You will work closely with our labels to ensure that our artists’ releases have high visibility across streaming partners, and assist our labels to help them grow their artist fanbases on streaming platforms.
Although the role will have a primary focus on Amazon Music, you will also support the Director of Catalogue Streaming across all partners, as well as acting as point person for an allocated Sony label, which will require you to develop a strong understanding of all streaming platforms and the music market as a whole.
What you'll do:
- Collaborations & Relationship Management: Proactively manage relationships with various label teams within Sony Music UK and manage the UK company's relationships with Amazon Music (alongside the Digital Partnerships Manager). Act as the Digital Partnerships point person for one of Sony Music UK’s key labels, attending their label meetings and fielding any Digital Partnerships related questions from the label teams
- Artist Partnership Campaigns: Collaborate with Digital Partnership Manager and internal stakeholders to develop and execute bespoke artist partnerships with Amazon Music
- Weekly Releases Pitching: Manage the pitch process of new releases to Amazon Music UK (including booster pitches and maintaining the release schedule) to ensure optimal visibility and engagement
- Best Practice Education: Support the Digital Partnerships Manager in educating Sony Music UK teams on best practices for growing an artist’s visibility on Amazon Music, including optimizing metadata for voice discovery (Alexa devices)
- Catalogue Support: Support the Director of Catalogue Streaming on artist campaigns and trending tracks
- Partner Meetings: Support the Digital Partnerships Manager to plan and host regular music meetings with Amazon Music
Who you are:
- Passionate about music and music culture
- Tenacious, motivated and curious, eager to learn and ready to ask questions
- You will be able to manage your time autonomously and prioritise tasks effectively to successfully fulfil your responsibilities
- You have excellent attention to detail and time management skills
- You have strong proactive communication skills as you will need to quickly build relationships with multiple stakeholders within the business and with external partners
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
