What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Creative Sync Partnerships position at UnitedMasters | Translation?
Who We Are
UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering over 1.5M artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
Its unrivaled monetization opportunities for artists are amplified by Translation, UnitedMasters' in-house creative marketing agency renowned for helping ambitious brands thrive in contemporary culture. In 2022, Translation was awarded the number three spot in Ad Age's Agency A-List and AdWeek's Multicultural Agency of the Year. One year before, Translation was awarded Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year.
We are looking for a Head of Creative Sync Partnerships to join UnitedMasters! Please note that this role is a Hybrid role : three days in office and two days remote.
What You'll Do
- Establish and lead a sophisticated creative sync partnerships team, holding team members accountable to revenue targets and goal attainment.
- Oversee pitching of creative sync opportunities to potential and current clients and negotiate / close deals
- Create go-to-market strategies to drive awareness for the UnitedMasters Creative Sync team and unlock opportunities for our UnitedMasters Partner Artist roster.
- Build, motivate and continually develop a highly engaged and effective go-to-market team across multiple work locations .
- Manage outreach and grow UnitedMasters' position in the sync market across agencies, music supervisors, studios, and trailer houses.
- Contribute to sourcing and fulfillment strategy to ensure catalog is competitive and meets market demand.
- Partner with Music Label, Product, and Marketing teams to analyze market trends, deepen understanding of customer needs, refine unique selling propositions and continually improve messaging.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
About UnitedMasters, Inc.
UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others. Over the last year, UnitedMasters artists have used our platform to land sync deals with major brands including the NBA, ESPN, Overtime Elite, Bose, Warner Brother Studios and NBA2k. These deals give them additional money for their work and increase their exposure.
Salary Hiring Range : $170,000 - $210,000
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. in some cases bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
The salary range above is for NY / CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.
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Salary : $170,000 - $210,000
