Senior Director, Marketing and Business Development, China

1 Month ago • 8-10 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Director, Marketing & Business Development, you will develop comprehensive project marketing plans to enhance music performance across all streaming platforms and shape the overall digital creative vision for Liquid State's artists. You will be a key member of the core team, responsible for music releases, artist branding, content creation, and business development. This role will lead the China marketing team, drive streaming market shares, and foster new business and artist development. This includes overseeing marketing campaigns, managing budgets, building relationships with partners, and identifying licensing opportunities. The role also involves leading and mentoring the China marketing team.

Must have:

8-10 years of experience in music labels in Mainland China.
Native Mandarin speaking, advanced professional English skills.
Good understanding of the music business in mainland China.
Experience with music promotional campaigns on Douyin is required.
Excellent communication skills for meetings and presentations.
A leader and a team player, experience leading a team.

Good to have:

Artist management experience is a plus.
Experience with living or working abroad is a plus.
Well-versed in developing local artists.
Social media savvy (Douyin, Kuaishou, Tiktok, etc.).

Perks:

Opportunity to channel your passion every day.
Modern office environment.
Investment in professional growth and development.
Platform to accelerate progress and create what happens next.
Opportunity to contribute to social impact initiatives.
Excellent benefits like private medical cover, generous pension, etc.

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Job Details

As a Senior Director, Marketing & Business Development, you are to develop full scope project marketing plans to drive music performance across all streaming platforms and an overall digital creative vision for Liquid State’s artists. You will be part of the core team responsible for the overall development of music releases, artist branding, content creation, and business development. This position will lead the China marketing team, as well as driving the streaming market shares, new business and artists development.

What you'll do:

Lead and oversee all the active music release projects with the China’s marketing team, provide campaign feedback and guidance to the marketing team.
Plan the development strategy for all the 360 artists under the label, in alignment with the creative team.
Build and maintain a strong relationship with all the DSP and media partners, initiate the exclusive partnerships or campaigns for the label.
Discover TV and show opportunities for label’s artists.
Drive new business development, responsible for increasing the annual business revenue. Build close relationship with brands, TV, gaming partners, publishers and show promoters for new business opportunities.
Maintain a strong relationship with label’s represented international artists, develop localized marketing strategy for promoting them in the market.
Lead the GC marketing budget, and oversee the effectiveness of the all the paid campaigns.
Work with local and international A&R teams to discover potential song releases for the market.
Discover and secure licensing projects in the market.
Grow and guide the China’s marketing team.

Who you are:

Must have at least 8-10 years working experience in music labels in Mainland China, artist management experience is a plus.
Native Mandarin speaking, advanced professional English communication skills is required. Candidate with working or living abroad experience will be a plus.
Well-versed or possess wide knowledge of developing local artists.
Have good understanding of how the music business works in mainland China, have personal insights on the market and has in-dept knowledge with the local streaming platforms.
Social media savvy (Douyin, Kuaishou, Tiktok, Instagram, Weibo, Bilibili, Snapchat and more).
Experience with music promotional campaigns on Douyin is required.
Extremely detail-oriented and organized.
Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to speak in forums, meetings and presentations.
Time sensitive, capable of developing and keeping to a project timeline.
A leader and a team player. Experience in leading a team of at least 4-5 members.
Bilingual (Chinese & English), Excellent spoken and written English is a must.

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

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