Director Digital Retail Partnership and Marketing
Sony Music Entertainment
Director Digital Retail Partnership and Marketing
Sony Music Entertainment
Global music label managing artists' royalties
The Orchard is a leading full-service music distribution company operating in 48 markets worldwide and servicing top global independent artists and labels. With cutting-edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with clients to provide full scale solutions across a variety of verticals. Championed by an exceptional community of music lovers and experts, The Orchard empowers creators to grow and evolve in the dynamic, global industry. The Orchard focuses on providing a comfortable, social, and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.
The Director, Digital Retail Partnership and Marketing leads our Greater China’s Marketing strategy and amplify our label and artist clients’ reach, as well as to oversee end-to-end marketing campaigns and maximize revenue opportunities across digital channels.
A central pillar of this role is owning and scaling our YouTube ecosystem, including channel optimization, rights management, and audience growth strategies, to directly boost exposure and monetization for our distributed music contents.
Strategic Marketing & Campaign Management
• Lead the Digital Sales and Marketing team to develop and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns across the region for label clients, artist releases, and catalog tracks to drive streams, sales, and global cultural relevance.
• Collaborate directly with record labels to align marketing initiatives with release timelines and revenue goals.
• Direct audience segmentation, playlist pitching strategies, and influencer / creator outreach.
YouTube Business & Monetization Leadership
• Manage & Scale Strategy: Drive the overall development and maximize our revenue for our YouTube business.
• Optimization & Growth: Oversee channel management, metadata optimization, custom thumbnails, and video SEO across owned and distributed channels.
• Audience Development: Leverage YouTube Analytics to identify trends, expand subscriber bases, and create content strategies that translate views into DSP streams.
Brand Strategy & Industry Relations
• Position our distribution platform as an industry-leading service provider for independent record labels and artists.
• Build and maintain direct relationships with key partners at major DSPs (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, QQ Music, NetEase etc).
Analytics
• Define KPIs for all marketing campaigns and deliver regular reports to track results, evaluate performance, and optimize ongoing strategy.
• Utilize data-driven insights to refine campaign strategies continuously.
• 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.
Equal Opportunities
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Global music label managing artists' royalties
Sony Music Entertainment discovers, nurtures, and promotes musical talent while managing music rights and royalties, earning revenue from music sales, streaming, licensing, and live performances. Its offerings include distributing music across formats and licensing deals, with the Artist Portal providing artists with transparent royalty analytics to view earnings. The company differentiates itself through a diversified, multi‑stream revenue model combined with direct artist support and clear financial transparency. Its goal is to be a leading global partner for artists, helping grow talent and ensure fair compensation and broad audience reach.
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