Music Partnerships Manager Job at ByteDance in Los Angeles

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Responsibilities

• Team Introduction: The Music Ecosystem and Partnerships team is responsible for managing TikTok's music operations, providing partnership support to artists, labels, and other music industry stakeholders and developing marketing and promotional plans to ensure TikTok's continued leading position in music discovery.
• The Music Partnerships Team aims to create captivating artist amplification opportunities for the music industry, while providing support across a range of operational activities.
• Provide best-in-class support for assigned label partners.
• Develop marketing and promotion strategies tailored to music partners and monitor the performance of those strategies within campaigns to suggest operational and product updates and improvements.
• Maintain a highly collaborative cross-functional approach for developing promotional products and partnership campaigns.
• Manage and deliver product and partner-specific research efforts including consumer insights, consumer segmentation, competitive intelligence, industry trends, and developments.
• Focus on release planning strategy and partner management with designated label partners.
• Become an expert in music and creator marketing on behalf of the business, developing a deep understanding of music marketer mindsets and barriers to music marketing on TikTok.
• Develop education and advocacy strategies to ensure partners are aware of new TikTok products, features and partnership opportunities and are up to date on TikTok best practice.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Strong experience in a similar role at a record label, music tech platform or similar.
• You have a natural aptitude for translating data into insights and the appetite to influence new music promotion products and strategies based on these insights.
• A solutions-oriented team player who can lead efforts across music; capable of working calmly and quickly in high-stress environments.
• You are well organized, dedicated, with the ability to plan and deliver on tight deadlines with outstanding attention to detail.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in a professional music industry role, ideally in a partner facing, marketing or promotional capacity with a deep network of personal relationships with labels and/or artists.
• A demonstrated understanding of the TikTok ecosystem, with an emphasis on music promotion strategy, artist and fan development, and trends.
• You are a great teammate and always have a positive and humble attitude.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. We strive to do great things with great people, lead with curiosity and humility, and foster an "Always Day 1" mindset to achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and our workplace reflects this diversity. We are committed to celebrating diverse voices and creating an environment that reflects the communities we reach.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

Compensation: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $104,712 - $235,980 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range based on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay may be eligible for bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary by location and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, and paid time off. The company reserves the right to modify benefits programs at any time.

For Los Angeles County candidates, qualified applicants will be considered in accordance with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act. The role may involve interactions with clients and handling of confidential information, and requires sound judgment.