M&A Marketing Manager

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$27/hr – $31/hrMid Level3+ years expHourly Ft

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end music marketing for acquired and partner labels, leading social-first campaigns, cross-functional execution, and data-driven optimization across platforms and emerging channels.

  • Drive strategy across social, DSPs, paid media, and creator marketing
  • Coordinate with CMG and partner teams to scale marketing workflows and campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be a strategic marketing partner to acquired and partner labels, developing release and artist marketing strategies across social, DSPs, paid media, creator marketing, and emerging channels
  • Advise labels on positioning, audience strategy, creative direction, campaign timing, and marketing investment
  • Identify growth opportunities across frontline releases, catalog, and artist development using audience and performance data
  • Lead the ideation and development of social-first campaigns, with a strong focus on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and emerging platforms
  • Oversee campaign creative, including short-form video, creator concepts, copy, and digital activations, ensuring content is compelling, on-brand, and culturally relevant
  • Partner with internal creative teams, Flighthouse, artists, creators, and external vendors to bring campaigns from concept through execution
  • Lead priority campaigns from planning through post-release, coordinating content, DSP, paid media, creator activations, and promotional opportunities
  • Monitor campaign performance and use data-driven insights to optimize creative, media spend, audience targeting, and overall strategy
  • Identify opportunities to extend the lifecycle of successful releases through additional content, partnerships, remixes, creator campaigns, and paid amplification
  • Develop strategies that drive discovery, streaming growth, fan acquisition, and long-term audience development across major social and music platforms

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
  • 3+ years of experience in music marketing, digital marketing, label marketing, artist development, or a related role within the music or entertainment industry
  • Strong understanding of modern music marketing across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, DSPs, creator marketing, paid media, and emerging platforms
  • Proven ability to develop and execute creative, integrated campaigns from initial concept through launch, optimization, and reporting
  • Strong knowledge of music culture, social trends, audience behavior, and the ways digital platforms drive music discovery and fan development
  • Experience managing multiple artists, labels, releases, or campaigns simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate campaign, streaming, social, and audience data into actionable marketing recommendations
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate creative strategies to internal teams, artists, labels, and external partners
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate creative, digital, DSP, paid media, A&R, and distribution stakeholders
  • Existing relationships across music marketing, creators, agencies, platforms, or digital vendors are a plus
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Create Music Group

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At Create Music Group, we provide you with the resources of a major label with flexibility of being independent. Trusted by the world's largest artists, labels, and brands - we’re revolutionizing the music industry and how the world hears their favorite songs by maximizing opportunities to monetize content across all platforms.

Founded in 2015
San Jose, California, USA
276 employees (91 in marketing)
81% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$27/hr – $31/hr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
28 (10% of company)
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$615M
Last Raise
$450M
Private Equity, 12 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Private Equity • $450M
  • Mar 2026
    Debt Financing
  • Jun 2024
    Private Equity • $165M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
6.3%
Social
7.2%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~276

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