Senior Manager, Brand & Social Media Marketing

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$90K/yr – $110K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Drive Kobalt’s brand and marketing across DSPs, social and platform partnerships to grow streams and visibility.

  • Own multi-channel campaigns for catalog titles and measure ROI
  • Must-have: 6–8+ years in digital marketing and brand management
  • Standout: Manage brand assets, agency relationships, and cross-team collaboration

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute targeted campaigns across DSPs and socials to drive streams, playlist adds and audience growth for prioritized catalog titles.
  • Live inside internet culture as a professional discipline; awareness of culture moments and how to insert a song authentically into that conversation.
  • Monitor sync placements, TV and film premieres, brand partnerships, client anniversaries for possible amplification on Kobalt’s owned properties, as well as editorial windows that represent marketing opportunities.
  • Monitor and optimize campaign performance in real-time across select channels; maintain reporting dashboards that give clear visibility into performance and ROI.
  • Stay ahead of platform changes, emerging formats and new digital tools.
  • Monitor DMs and comments on Kobalt’s owned properties and engage with client posts; respond in brand voice where appropriate.
  • Manage relationships with external agencies or contractors.
  • Own the Kobalt brand across all outward-facing touchpoints (from a print ad and a caption, to the production of high-stakes brand materials for Board meetings, All-Hands, and cross-functional team pitches) and partnering with our Internal Communications team for internal updates.
  • Own the visual identity of the company by managing our central assets library - presentation templates, email signatures, logos and internal brand guidelines.
  • Manage the Kobalt website, i.e. keeping video assets, photos, press releases, and bios current and partnering with KTech team on site updates.
  • Keep a running tally of all Kobalt wins and accolades and work with the Creative team to ensure our success is documented and celebrated.
  • Create and edit content highlighting client releases, wins, and spotlights for Kobalt’s owned properties
  • Strategize, manage and oversee the content pipeline and publishing calendar for graphics, carousels, and posts across Kobalt’s social platforms.
  • Maintain a high creative bar across everything produced; every asset should reflect the quality and authority of the Kobalt brand.
  • Join weekly syncs with the Creative team to determine social priorities and ensure we are amplifying the right releases at the right time.
  • Act as a point of contact for platform partners at Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and Apple, including monthly meetings to identify and pitch Kobalt priorities for platform programs and activations.
  • Liaise with artist teams to gather assets and align on timelines for DSP activations.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years of experience in digital marketing, brand management, and creative production; music industry experience a plus
  • Proven track record of managing platform partnerships
  • Experience in video production for both external (Reels/TikTok) and internal (Board/All-Hands) environments.
  • Strong copywriting skills and the ability to facilitate interviews with artists and executives.
  • Bonus: Fluency in Spanish to support our growing LatAm roster.

Preferred

  • Music industry experience a plus
Kobalt Music logo

Kobalt Music

3.4 Glassdoor

Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels. As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses. Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

Founded in 2000
New York, New York, USA
588 employees (195 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
49% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
31.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.4%
Direct
40.8%
Referral
7%
Social
7.9%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~588

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
60 (10% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$1.5B
Last Raise
$716.5M
Debt Financing, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2024
    Debt Financing • $716.5M
  • Mar 2022
    Debt Financing • $550M
  • Oct 2017
    Series D • $14M

Recent News