Associate Director, Song Virality Marketing - Epic

Sony Music Global Job Board•Los Angeles, CA

10h•$1 - $1•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Director, Song Virality Marketing at Epic Records will play a crucial role in strategizing and implementing artist-specific digital marketing campaigns. This position joins a team dedicated to building relationships with influencers and executing digital marketing strategies that resonate with music-loving audiences and drive consumption. This role requires the ability to recognize and understand signals and trends surrounding short form vitality and the conversion to audio/video streaming. The role requires project management skills plus the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders internally & externally. The Viral Marketing team sits within Marketing at Epic Records.

Requirements

At least 4 years professional experience in influencer/social media/digital marketing, preferably with a creative agency, creator agency, or entertainment company.
Prior experience working across social channels, with an emphasis on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube Shorts.
Existing relationships in the creator and content distribution spaces.
Proven track record to build, execute, and scale campaigns that impact music-loving audiences.
Creative acumen to idea and produce viral content.
Strategic understanding of the value in paid and unpaid content collaborations.
In-depth knowledge of music culture, trends, and creator communities.
Familiarity with common trends across multiple genres including Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Dance, Country and Alt Rock.
Strong understanding of global streaming ecosystem, consumptions patterns, and 3rd party platforms like Spotify & Apple Music.
A balance between creative and strategic thinking, able to develop and implement ideas on a small and large scale.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with creative and business-oriented colleagues.
Ability to lead and manage direct reports within specific team. Prior people management experience required.
You have exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
Acute attention to detail paired with strong organizational, project management, and communication skills.
Advanced knowledge with AI tools to help streaming workflow where appropriate.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute content driven growth campaigns at scale for Epic Records single releases from inception through post-launch.
Focus on prioritized singles to create max reach, awareness and growth.
Work closely with artist managers and internal departments to champion content-first ideas and execute integrated global activations.
Discover, build, and maintain relationships with agencies, networks, pages and management companies across creators, edit pages, theme pages and all forms of short form content distribution.
Deploy and manage effective paid media strategies targeted at all levels of the marketing funnel to find, grow and develop audiences.
Ideate and produce Content that is culturally relevant to the artist, disruptive to scrolling and breaks through the algorithm
Amplify the overall narrative surrounding artists as well as specific moments through content seeding
Monitor campaigns and budgets to understand efficiency of strategy and make recommendations for improvement, with specific correlation to streaming consumption.
Continuously ideate and innovate within the short form space.
Report daily to label Senior Management on live time insights surrounding campaigns and ensure consistent communication to priority artist camps.