Manager, Commercial Partnerships

Role Overview

The Manager, Commercial Partnerships manages Sony Music Canada’s strategic relationships across streaming, digital media, and e-commerce partners, driving commercial growth, artist visibility, and campaign performance across frontline and catalogue priorities. This role combines account management, platform optimization, playlist strategy, and commercial development, ensuring Sony artists are positioned for maximum visibility, audience growth, and revenue across the evolving global digital music ecosystem.

What You Will Do

Manage day-to-day relationships with key streaming, digital media, and e-commerce partners, drive partnership planning, commercial opportunity development, and long-term account growth across digital and e-commerce partners, secure and maximize platform support, and resolve platform, release, metadata, and operational issues.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate brings exceptional relationship management skills, deep digital music expertise, and a commercial mindset, with the ability to translate platform opportunities into meaningful artist growth, revenue, and market share growth, and achieving business goals.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of experience in digital partnerships, streaming strategy, account management, or commercial roles within the music, media, or entertainment industries
• Deep understanding of the global streaming ecosystem, digital music consumption trends, audience development, and artist growth strategies
• Proven experience developing strategic partnerships with digital music platforms and securing commercial opportunities that drive measurable business outcomes
• Strong knowledge of artist-facing platform tools including Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists, Amazon Music for Artists, YouTube Studio, and related DSP ecosystems
• Familiarity with audience intelligence and performance measurement platforms including Luminate, Chartmetric, and social analytics platforms
• Strong understanding of metadata management, digital merchandising, playlist programming, and streaming optimization best practices
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Commercially minded with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate platform insights into actionable business strategies

Benefits

• health and dental group insurance
• life insurance
• short and long-term disability plans
• group RRSP Pension plan
• tuition reimbursement
• an EAP program
• Health and Lifestyle Benefit Plan
• Winter recess (office closure Christmas through New Year’s)