Director, Marketing - OVO Sound

OVO Sound is looking for a Marketing Director to join their team. The candidate will assist in spearheading marketing initiatives across the OVO Sound roster and the label itself. The label is made up of a close-knit team of people who are passionate about culture, entertainment, music and most importantly, the artists signed to the label. At times, you may be asked to perform duties that are not within the direct scope provided here. This ensures that your voice on the team is taken into consideration and implemented as we perform daily tasks as a label to help grow our artists.

Your duties and day-to-day:

• Serve as the project manager for the successful execution of marketing plans, as well as support for the day-to-day operations and management of the artist’s rollout
• Ensure effective execution across all go-to market plans and experiences that ultimately generate fan engagement, earned media and incremental revenue throughout the entire lifecycle of the artist’s projects
• Work cross-functionally to ensure projects are completed on time to and to the highest quality and expectations
• Give your own creative input on production and ideation of promotional/marketing ideas
• Manage resourcing allocations, workflows and expenses as it relates to overall campaign
• Ensure that all aspects of a campaign are signed off on by all necessary parties and delivered to standard and goal
• Problem solve, influence and campaign to secure approvals for all aspects of developed strategy
• Work closely with the artist and their representation - managers, creative teams, lawyers as the gatekeeper of all approvals through out execution and that all their needs are met without sacrificing goals set
• Maintain and build a network of external partners such as DSP partners, social strategists, marketing agencies, and publicists that you can work with and directly manage on campaigns
• Gather results with fellow team members to deliver post-rollout analyses of executed campaigns
• Manage highly sensitive, confidential information

Becoming a part of the team:

• Must have at least 5+ years of experience in marketing 
• Possess a strong work ethic; strong organization skills and focused attention to detail with a sense of urgency
• Great communication, oral and written skills are a must
• Be proactive, passionate and driven to learn about all aspects of the music industry
• Experience using industry tools such as Nielsen Music Connect, Mediabase, etc.
• Build relationships with the internal OVO Sound staff by participating in team meetings, discussions, and planning activities
• Must be immersed in music and culture
• Manage relationships with top-level artists, managers, and other partners as the conversations relate to digital marketing
• Lead meetings and presentation relating to marketing and  rollout plans for assigned artist
• Be accustomed to working under tight deadlines

What we give you:

• • You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 
  • A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 
  • Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 
  • The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 
  • We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 
  • We provide an excellent range of benefits like health and dental group insurance, life insurance, short and long-term disability plans, group RRSP pension program, tuition reimbursement, health and lifestyle benefit plan and an EAP program. There’s also time off over winter break