Senior Director, Marketing and Business Development, China

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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