Director Sales Marketing Brand Partnerships

Director, Sales Marketing

About

Sofar Sounds is a global community connecting artists and audiences through intimate live music experiences in unique spaces across 400 cities. Backed by prominent investors, their global team operates in a hybrid model. The Brand Partnerships team builds and delivers branded music programs for recognized brands.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sofar’s response to inbound briefs and RFPs from brands and agencies, owning the storyline, structure, and quality of every pitch.
• Partner with Sales leads to translate brand challenges into on-strategy partnership concepts.
• Build pitch materials end-to-end, including narrative-driven decks, capabilities one-pagers, case studies, sizzle reels, and bespoke creative responses.
• Shape Sofar’s go-to-market approach for the Brand Partnerships team.
• Top-edit all external decks and sales materials to ensure brand consistency.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors (Sales, Creative, Production, Music, Insights, Finance) throughout the brief-response lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain Sofar’s library of sales marketing tools.
• Present high-level creative concepts and data-driven recommendations to internal leaders and external stakeholders.
• Partner with Insights to integrate audience, performance, and category proof points into pitches.
• Stay current on culture, music, and brand marketing trends to inform pitches and proactive outbound ideas.

Requirements

• 4-7 years of experience in sales marketing, brand partnerships marketing, integrated marketing, or marketing strategy, ideally at a media company, publisher, platform, sponsorship-led brand, or experiential agency.
• Proven experience owning the response to RFPs and inbound briefs end-to-end.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, advertising, media, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong narrative building skills.
• Sharp eye for slide craft and design.
• Proven ability to orchestrate cross-functional teams.
• Poised communicator with senior internal leaders and external stakeholders.
• Data-informed approach, comfortable using audience, category, and performance proof points.
• Curiosity about music, culture, and brand storytelling.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple live pitches in parallel.