Director, Marketing & Growth

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $125K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive GTM, revenue, and cross-functional alignment for a music-technology startup through product launches, content, and partnerships.

  • Must-have: Direct experience leading music-technology marketing campaigns across paid, social, content, and PR.
  • Standout: Managerial experience overseeing marketing teams and external partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Quarterback the Funnel: Serve as the primary project manager connecting Paid Media, PR, Biz Dev, and Social to ensure a unified, conversion-oriented message across all touchpoints.
  • GTM Strategy & Execution: Own the Go-To-Market roadmap for new products and features. You won't just announce features; you will launch them with a focus on conversion, adoption, and revenue impact.
  • Drive Revenue Growth: Develop and execute a GTM strategy focused on high-intent lead generation and client acquisition, directly supporting the Biz Dev team’s targets.
  • Sales Enablement & Collateral: Create and optimize high-conversion assets (pitch decks, case studies, landing pages) that empower the sales/biz dev team to move prospects through the pipeline faster.
  • Performance-Led Content: Direct a content and social strategy that prioritizes product- and value-led storytelling, focusing on ROI and user acquisition over vanity metrics.
  • Strategic Sponsorships & Activations: Identify and manage industry sponsorships, ensuring every activation has a clear lead-capture mechanism and follow-up sequence.
  • Market Feedback Loop: Act as the bridge between the market (client sentiment) and the Product team to ensure our roadmap is aligned with what drives revenue.

Requirements

  • Direct experience leading marketing campaigns in the music technology industry, including paid, social, content, sponsored, PR, sales enablement, asset creation, and all other relevant marketing tactics and strategies.
  • A comprehensive understanding of the music industry marketing ecosystem including techniques, channels, customer cohorts, metrics, strategies, stakeholders, and tone.
  • Expertise with marketing technology including CRM platforms, analytics suites, content creation tools, media buying services, and reporting/analysis dashboards.
  • Proven success contributing to growth of a music technology startup from early stages to a maturing business.
  • Managerial experience overseeing social, content, paid, and other marketing staff (internal direct reports and external consultants)

Preferred

  • Experience with using AI for workflow optimization and automation
  • Partnership experience and a relevant contact list to expand our partnership footprint
  • Experience at a publisher, distributor, admin platform, management company, or record label
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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

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