Artists & Label Partnerships Manager, Philippines
SpotifyPosted 2/26/2025
Artists & Label Partnerships Manager, Philippines
Spotify
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Job Summary
We're seeking an Artist & Label Partnerships Manager to join Spotify's team in Singapore. As a key point of contact for record labels, distributors, managers, and artists in the Philippines music landscape, you'll educate them about Spotify tools and resources, build impactful partnerships, and advocate for Spotify's interests externally. You'll work closely with local and international teams, analyze data and trends, and develop marketing initiatives to drive artist engagement. With a minimum of 3+ years of experience in label and artist relations, you'll be responsible for connecting Spotify teams with the music industry to drive opportunities. This role offers flexibility to work from home, with some in-person meetings, and comes with a competitive salary, travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company.
Job Description
We have an excellent opportunity for an Artist & Label Partnerships Manager to come and join the band. The Artist & Label Partnerships team are the face of Spotify to artists, managers, labels & distributors.
Focusing on the Philippines music landscape, you will serve as the primary point of contact for record labels, distributors, managers and artists. You will educate artists & their teams about Spotify standard methodologies, resources and tools. You will build impactful and innovative artist partnerships utilising on-platform promotion and off-platform marketing to ensure that artists, managers and labels see Spotify as the #1 partner for artist development.
Work closely with the local SEA team on essential projects, partner with international colleagues on campaigns, and connect with internal teams such as editorial, marketing, and licensing. Our ideal candidate has fun at work and a desire to make a positive impact on the music industry as a whole. This role will require international travel.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain outstanding and positive partnerships across artist and label communities within the Philippines and advocate for Spotify’s interests and initiatives externally within the creator community
- Support and educate our key partners across artists and labels communities in the Philippines on Spotify tools, resources and insights to encourage them and improve their daily business
- Work closely with artists and labels on all meaningful and priority releases in the Philippines
- Develop methodologies and efficiencies to be the best partner to our artist and label partners
- Identify, develop and implement outstanding marketing and content initiatives to enable Artist and Artist-fan engagement
- Understand and gain insight of content consumption, music trends, artists, user engagement and behaviors by analyzing data and analytics
- Collaborate with the global music teams, as well as regional editorial teams, to ensure content strategies are localized and successfully performed
- Ensure Spotify has the best possible content offering in the Philippines and use this to further Spotify’s appeal to existing and new users
- Work with regional Editorial teams and regional Genre Groups, as well as other cross-functional teams to progress towards various content objectives
- Work cross-functionally with other internal teams to fulfill company strategic goals
- Connect other Spotify teams with the music industry to help drive and implement opportunities driven by Spotify and our partners. You will act as liaison between Spotify and artist / label partners
Who You Are
- A minimum of 3+ years of working experience with label and artist relations in an established digital music service, record label, media or tech company in the Philippines market. Regional and global experience would be an added advantage
- Deep understanding and established network within the local music industry in the Philippines and have built relevant contacts with labels and artists to effectively collaborate with the community
- Strong music and technology background with a consistent record in marketing and operations
- Strong grasp of content knowledge, music and cultural trends, artists, user engagement and behaviors
- Proven record in marketing and are fully conversant in the latest digital marketing techniques and adept at analyzing and interpreting data and using it to set goals
- You have proven experience in user research, with expertise in either exploratory qualitative research to identify needs and problems or workflow and task analysis (or both!)
- Familiar with content management systems
- Well organized, dedicated with the ability to plan, deliver on tight deadlines and pay outstanding attention to detail
- You have experience working within the Philippines and ideally across multiple markets within regional and global teams
- You are very fluent in written and spoken English and Filipino. Fluency in regional languages ie. Bisaya, Ilocano, etc would be a plus
- You are able to prepare and deliver executive level presentations
Where You'll Be
- This position will be based in Singapore
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home
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.
