Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum of 7+ years of experience in creative direction or strategy at a platform, media brand, or agency., Expert written and verbal communicator with the ability to articulate abstract creative concepts., Deep understanding of integrated marketing development and the digital landscape., Business level fluency in Portuguese and English..

Key responsabilities:

Inspire and educate teams on the power of creativity to connect brands to fans.

Lead Brazil’s strategic approach in partnership with sales leadership to build a world-class advertising platform.

Manage operational responsibilities including account management and reporting.

Develop and facilitate workshops to inspire creative expression among partners.

Job description

The Creative Lab sits within Spotify Advertising, the business unit within Spotify that focuses on connecting brands to billions of fans around the world. Our team is Spotify Advertising’s in-house creative agency, responsible for building branded experiences. We collaborate with brands and agencies to inspire, create, and scale creativity with Spotify-first thinking.

We are seeking a seasoned leader to join our dedicated creative strategy team in São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to inspiring the best ideas centered around Spotify through proactive and reactive responses to creative briefs, co-creating and building with our biggest brands, creators, and advertisers today. We are storytellers who are obsessed with how ideas can be brought to life through the superpowers of our platform, and we are looking for someone to lead the team through our next evolution, champion the potential of our products and offerings and elevate our work.

What You'll Do

Inspire and educate internal and external teams on the power of creativity to connect brands to fans

Own and lead Brazil’s strategic approach, in deep partnership with the heads of sales in Brazil, with the goal to build a world class advertising platform

Act as a key senior member of the Brazil Advertising Business, and marketing liaison to the Sales leadership team

Be a Spotify evangelist, encouraging marketers and agencies through creative and Advertising marketing workshops or at industry events

Lead the strategy for Brazil and create compelling integrated creative narratives & initiatives that drive awareness and demand, from a core target audience of creative and media agencies as well as brand marketers

Partner with clients and agencies to develop award-winning, best in class advertising on Spotify at scale

Manage all operational responsibilities including account and resource management and objectives and key results tracking and reporting, processes within the team and with cross functional teams to ensure impact is captured and efficiency is top of mind

Identify, develop and maintain a unique position for Spotify’s creative offerings and deliver them in a compelling way to convince partners to explore solutions with us

Develop, plan and scale approach to supporting top clients; driving approach to JBP support and coordination

Facilitate inspirational workshops with mid and senior level partners to find the right balance of boundary pushing creative expression and brand realities

Work closely with other teams within the Creative Lab, including our mighty ops and production team who leads world class craft and execution for our clients, our creative intelligence team who work with our insights and data science teams to understand creative standard methodologies that will inform the development of best in class, effective campaigns on Spotify and a strong bench of global creative leads across all teams

Develop and demonstrate creative thought leadership on industry, advertising, visual and digital culture and trends as input and fodder to inspire internal and external partners

Who You Are

A min of 7+ years of experience in creative direction, creative strategy at a platform, media brand or agency

Extraordinary presenter with an ability to tell stories about creative work through the lens of culture for Spotify

Ability to develop compelling, thought provoking creative and strategic narratives that best demonstrate the creative potential of our platform

A world class presenter who can deliver a narrative persuasively to audiences of all sizes; from a small room with CMOs of a large brand, to large formats like conferences and on stages

A quick problem solver who can collaborate well with internal and external partners like contractors and vendors to bring ideas to life

Experience managing own workflows, e.g. managing budgets, process and ways of working internally and externally

Experience working with senior level partners and clients at agencies and brands

Observes and documents culture trends, demonstrating a strong understanding of relevance and a curiosity about identifying emerging visual, digital, and tech trends.

Expert written and verbal communicator, with the ability to articulate abstract creative concepts and persuade audiences when required

Deep understanding of integrated marketing development, tech platforms and social media landscape, with experience in digital first production

Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and across partners in business marketing, brand, and product teams to build consensus on shared initiatives

Highly organized and strong operational skills with the ability to work across time zones and markets

Business level fluency in Portuguese and English

Where You'll Be

This role is based in Sao 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.

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