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São Paulo

Creative Business Strategies (CBS) Manager - São Paulo (Contractor)

FULL TIME ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 16 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

This role supports Spotifys Creative Business Strategies team in Brazil for a major live experience project. You will manage talent relationships and cross-functional coordination across music, podcasts, and creator categories. The position is a contract role based in Sao Paulo from June 2026 to February 2027.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day relationships with talent across music and podcast categories
  • Own the end-to-end talent approval process and material routing
  • Serve as the primary contact for alignment with internal marketing and music stakeholders
  • Coordinate with external production partners on logistics and rider requirements
  • Maintain the master project tracker and provide weekly visibility across workstreams
  • Identify project risks and document decisions from cross-functional meetings

Requirements Snapshot

  • Experience managing large-scale entertainment or live event projects
  • Proven background in talent relations with artists and managers
  • Strong project management skills including tracking and risk mitigation
  • Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
  • Professional fluency in both English and Portuguese

Expected Impact

You will ensure the seamless execution of a high-profile live experience by bridging the gap between talent, production, and internal stakeholders. Your coordination will drive efficient approval cycles and maintain project momentum, ultimately deepening fan engagement and culture.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

Spotify's Creative Business Strategies (CBS) team develops innovative experiences that deepen fan engagement and create meaningful connections between audiences, creators, and culture. As part of CBS LATAM, this engagement will support a major live experience project led by the team in Brazil, working across talent, content, and cross-functional coordination.
 

Contract Duration: June 2026 - February 2027

What You'll Do

  • Manage day-to-day relationships with talent participating in the project across music, podcast, and creator categories.
  • Own the end-to-end talent approval process, including routing materials, tracking approvals, securing sign-offs, and following up on outstanding actions across campaign phases.
  • Serve as the primary CBS point of contact for alignment with Music, Marketing, Communications, and Podcast stakeholders.
  • Support artist and creator content approval workflows, ensuring assets move efficiently through review cycles and meet production and marketing deadlines.
  • Coordinate closely with external production partner teams on talent logistics, scheduling, and rider requirements.
  • Maintain and update the master project tracker on a weekly basis, ensuring accurate visibility across all workstreams.
  • Monitor cross-functional dependencies and proactively identify risks, blockers, and escalation points.
  • Document decisions, action items, and outcomes from project meetings, maintaining an up-to-date decision log.
  • Provide ongoing project reporting and operational support to the project lead.
  • Support the development of the sponsorship strategy, including tier structure, category mapping, and brand integration guidelines for an event
  • Collaborate with commercial team on sponsor prospecting and pitch materials
  • Translate the event's creative and experiential assets into sponsor-facing value propositions
  • Track the sponsorship pipeline and provide regular reporting on commercial progress, revenue targets, and partner status.

 

Who You Are

  • You have experience managing large-scale entertainment, content, marketing, or live event projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • You are experienced in talent relations and can confidently manage communications with artists, creators, agents, managers, and partners.
  • You know how to coordinate complex approval processes while balancing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
  • You have strong project management skills and experience maintaining trackers, timelines, reporting structures, and risk logs.
  • You are highly organized and comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
  • You care about building strong relationships and maintaining clear communication across cross-functional teams.
  • You have experience working with external production partners, agencies, or event operators.
  • You are skilled at identifying risks early and driving solutions collaboratively.
  • You are comfortable operating in fast-moving, highly visible projects where ambiguity and change are common.
  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Portuguese.
  • You have proven experience developing sponsorship or partnership programs for cultural events, festivals, or entertainment properties
  • You have the ability to translate creative concepts into commercial opportunities for brands
  • You have familiarity with the Brazilian sponsorship market and brand activation landscape (desirable)

Where You'll Be

  • This position is based in São Paulo, Brazil
  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
  • This role follows Spotify's Office Mix model, a blend of in-office and remote work.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
 
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
 
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