VP, Marketing

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$225K/yr – $265K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Owns social strategy and cross-functional leadership to turn UnitedMasters into a culture-defining brand, optimizing creator partnerships, paid media, and cross-channel storytelling that drives marketplace growth and brand equity.

  • Social Strategy & Brand Voice: build a culture-fluent presence that competitors can’t replicate.
  • Cross-functional Leadership: align product, data, and artist services to amplify artist wins and platform differentiation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a social presence that moves at the speed of culture
  • Turn UnitedMasters' social channels into a defining advantage for the company, not a support function
  • Lead a culturally fluent, fandom-native social strategy attuned to conversations, creators, and moments shaping music and pop culture in real time
  • Set UnitedMasters apart from category competitors: define a social presence and brand voice that legacy distributors can’t replicate, leveraging music and artist relationships to build a moat
  • Build the team, operating model, and content engine to ship at the speed culture moves
  • Partner with artist services and the music team to share artist wins consistently, turning our roster into our best storytellers
  • Create and execute a 360 marketing strategy to attract, retain, and engage both sides of our marketplace: artists and brands/licensors
  • Own the marketing budget across channels, hitting acquisition targets and brand-building goals while meeting CAC and marketing efficiency benchmarks
  • Develop product positioning and messaging grounded in user research, market insights, and platform understanding
  • Define and refine UnitedMasters' brand: how we present to artists, brands, and culture, balancing brand and growth investment

Requirements

  • 10+ years of marketing leadership with deep, demonstrable expertise in social media
  • Social-first marketing leadership, not a generalist who oversees social
  • Demonstrated ability to build and scale social channels with cultural relevance and creative ambition
  • Experience growing consumer mobile, web, and/or enterprise-SaaS products with measurable business impact
  • Experience managing both qualitative and quantitative customer research
  • Strong management experience leading cross-functional marketing teams; ability to recruit, develop, and retain talent
  • High intellectual horsepower, comfortable with spreadsheets and creative work
  • Extreme empathy and curiosity for artists and brand customers
  • Startup, do-er mentality

Preferred

  • Music, creator economy, or marketplace experience
  • International marketing experience
  • Experience working closely with an in-house or external creative agency
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UnitedMasters

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UnitedMasters is a new music industry alternative that provides independent artists with premium music distribution services, a suite of tools to help them directly connect with fans, and opportunities for unique partnerships with some of the world’s biggest brands including the NBA, Bose, and iHeart. UnitedMasters allows artists to easily distribute their music to all major streaming services. Distributed artists become eligible to participate in a variety of advertisements, brand partnerships and other promotions that earn them money and bring in new fans. UnitedMasters also provides artists access to their streaming and social data so they can gain insight into how to maximize fan engagement. The most promising artists on the platform unlock access to a bespoke suite of promotional services like playlist pitching, marketing, PR, and promotion. UnitedMasters aims to give artists the tools to operationalize their independence and maximize their creative and economic potential.UnitedMasters was launched in 2017 by Translation founder and music industry veteran Steve Stoute with a $70 million Series A led by Google’s corporate umbrella Alphabet alongside prestigious venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and entertainment giant 21st Century Fox. Led by a team of executives, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, Soundcloud, Pandora, Instagram, Dropbox, Complex, and Vice, the platform positions talent for mainstream impact while allowing them to maintain full ownership over their master recording rights.

Founded in 2017
Brooklyn, New York, USA
639 employees (441 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
51% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
503.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$119
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.2%
Direct
57%
Referral
5.2%
Social
5.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~639

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (5% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$170M
Last Raise
$50M
Series C, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2021
    Series C • $50M
  • Mar 2021
    Series B • $50M
  • Nov 2017
    Series A • $70M

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