Director, Business Development – Publishing Partnerships

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Assist in shaping Suno’s commercial strategy for partnerships within the music sector, ensuring alignment among product, legal, finance, and operations teams.

• Negotiate and finalize agreements with publishers, including innovative deal structures.

• Establish and nurture senior-level relationships with companies in the music industry.

• Keep track of the competitive and evolving landscape in AI music.

• Provide leadership with insights on market dynamics, industry engagement strategies, and partnership possibilities.

• Create scalable methods for contract management, partner operations, and long-term industry collaboration.

• Contribute to strategic initiatives across ecosystem partnerships and platform integrations as Suno’s commercial presence expands.

• Report directly to the Chief Commercial Officer as a senior individual contributor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in business development and/or commercial negotiations within the music and digital technology sectors.

• Proven experience in negotiating and closing complex, high-value agreements.

• Background in establishing first-of-a-kind partnerships.

• Familiarity with music publishers.

• Strong history of influencing and aligning stakeholders at various levels, including executive leadership.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and negotiation abilities.

• Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple high-priority projects at once.

• High level of autonomy, ownership, and strategic insight.

• Comfortable in navigating situations without an established playbook.

• Strong product intuition and experience collaborating with product and technical teams.

• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Employment through Suno’s employer of record in the UK or via a consulting engagement.

• Opportunities for regular business travel to Suno’s US offices.