A person with disabilities will be given preferential consideration per local regulations.
Minimum qualifications:
- Experience in the local music industry
- Experience in a partner-facing, Artists and Repertoire (A&R;), or radio promotion role at a label, artist management, and/or digital music company
- Ability to speak and write in English and Spanish fluently
Preferred qualifications:
- Understanding of the music and video industries as well as the nuances of music rights licensing, and key Internet and digital media trends
- Ability to drive new partnerships, promote new business opportunities to existing partners, and ensure prompt and proper resolution of business issues raised by partners
- Ability to work cross-functionally and to address executive level and C-level executives, internally and externally
- Ability to speak and write in Italian fluently
- Effective organizational, leadership, and analytical skills
- Established network of relationships with labels and/or artists in the region
**About the job**:
As Music Lead, you will be responsible for helping make YouTube the partner for the local music industry, providing ongoing business and relationship management to YouTube’s key industry partners in Southern Europe. A specific focus will be on supporting the local music industry, including labels, managers, and artists executing business generation/promotional opportunities to help build their brands and generate joint success.
In this role, you will interact regularly with counterparts within the industry to drive YouTube business and local music partnerships, while collaborating closely with internal teams to help advocate for our value to the music industry and reputation. You will have exceptional partner management expertise, a service mindset, and extensive knowledge and relationships in the music industry.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
**Responsibilities**:
- Develop and maintain personal relationships with label, artist, and industry contacts to help drive business generation and bring artists in the music industry.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to select the partners/artists we work with, prioritize and set expectations both internally and externally related to how we can develop mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Collaborate with internal teams to positively impact YouTube’s brand in the music industry and execute promotional/marketing opportunities.
- Facilitate content-licensing agreements with partners, strategic distribution agreements, and record label authorizations where applicable.
- Work cross-functionally to develop positive impact for YouTube within the music Industry, drive partner-related business processes, including escalation of strategic issues. Update internally or externally on product, operational, and account changes consistently and collect feedback for internal stakeholders.
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