Sony Corporation

Senior Manager, Audience Intelligence

Sony Corporation$100K — $120K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in analytics, digital marketing, or audience insights (music or e-commerce preferred)
  • Strong analytical skills with experience across multiple datasets
  • Proficiency in SQL and/or Python preferred
  • Familiarity with analytic tools like Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI
  • Experience with music analytics platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube)
  • Excellent communication skills for translating data insights
  • Ability to foster a collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams to inform artist campaigns and insights
  • Analyze audience data from various platforms for actionable intelligence
  • Conduct deep dives into audience behavior and engagement trends
  • Identify emerging audience opportunities and cultural trends
  • Lead audience measurement and performance reporting for D2C
  • Develop frameworks mapping audience pathways for better engagement
  • Build scalable dashboards and reporting frameworks for performance tracking

Benefits

  • Dynamic global community encouraging personal passion
  • Modern office designed for optimal performance
  • Investment in professional growth and development
  • Opportunity to contribute to diversity and social impact initiatives
  • Comprehensive health and dental group insurance
  • Group RRSP pension program and tuition reimbursement
  • Winter break time off and wellness benefits
Full Job Description
The Senior Manager, Audience Intelligence leads Sony Music Canada9s audience insights function, delivering data-driven intelligence that informs campaign planning, audience growth, fan engagement, and direct-to-consumer strategy across the organization. The position currently manages 1 direct report and reports into a broader regional team spanning the U.S, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This role focuses on transforming audience, streaming, social, and commerce data into actionable insights that support artist development, release strategy, CRM initiatives, and fan monetization opportunities. The Senior Manager plays a critical role in measuring release and campaign performance, uncovering audience trends, to build a more unified view of the fan journey from streaming discovery and social engagement through to owned-channel interaction and commerce conversion. This is a highly collaborative role for an analytically driven individual who is passionate about music, fan behaviour, and the evolving music data and distribution ecosystem. What you9ll do: Analytics & Audience Insight Development b7 Collaborate with Commercial Partnerships, Marketing, A&R, the Executive team and Audience Intelligence teams with real-time insights to inform artist signings, campaign planning, optimization, and post-campaign analysis. b7 Collect, analyze, and interpret audience data across streaming platforms, physical sales, social media, paid media, CRM, and D2C commerce channels. b7 Conduct deep-dive analyses into audience behavior, fan demographics, psychographics, and engagement trends to support targeting and segmentation strategies. b7 Identify emerging audience opportunities, cultural trends, and high value fan segments that can inform artist marketing and growth strategies. b7 Manage product release forecasting and audience trend analysis for domestic and international frontline and catalogue priorities. b7 Deliver ad-hoc analysis to support the needs of the business, assist with other projects and process improvement initiatives as required. D2C, CRM & Fan Lifecycle Intelligence b7 Lead audience measurement and performance reporting across Sony Music Canada9s direct-to-consumer ecosystem, CRM programs, and owned fan acquisition initiatives. b7 Analyze customer behavior, conversion trends, retention, and purchase activity to inform D2C strategy and optimization. b7 Develop frameworks that map audience pathways between streaming engagement, social interaction, CRM acquisition, and commerce conversion. b7 Partner with digital and marketing teams, and D2C stakeholders to identify opportunities for fan acquisition, audience re-engagement, lifecycle marketing, and conversion growth. Reporting, Visualization & Operational Excellence b7 Build and evolve scalable dashboards, KPI scorecards, and reporting frameworks tracking campaign performance, audience growth, streaming trends, CRM engagement, and D2C performance. b7 Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable business intelligence for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. b7 Assist with funding requests (e.g., Ontario Music Investment Fund), support new business development, and handle ad hoc data or reporting requests from key departments. Who you are: b7 5+ years of experience in analytics, digital marketing, audience insights, or performance reporting (music, entertainment, media, or e-commerce preferred). b7 Proficiency in analytical languages such as SQL and/or Python is considered a strong asset. b7 Experience with analytics and BI tools including Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI and Shopify analytics. b7 Experience with music and audience platforms including Luminate, Spotify for Artists, Apple Music For Artists, Amazon Music For Artists, YouTube Analytics and Chartmetric. b7 Strong analytical and quantitative skills with experience working across multiple datasets. b7 Strong communication skills to build trusted relationships and translate data into actionable business insights. b7 Highly organized, detail-oriented, and collaborative with strong follow through. b7 Creates an environment where direct reports can perform, grow, and contribute at their highest level b7 Navigates a fast-changing industry while helping their team to adapt. b7 Fosters a culture where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone can contribute b7 Understands how decisions impact artists, audiences, and business performance b7 Passion for music, fan culture, digital platforms, and audience behavior. What we give you: 3 You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 3 A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 3 Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 3 The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 3 We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 3 We provide an excellent range of benefits like health and dental group insurance, life insurance, short and long-term disability plans, group RRSP pension program, tuition reimbursement, health and lifestyle benefit plan and an EAP program. There9s also time off over winter break Please click here to read our Privacy Policy and here to read our Terms & Conditions.

About Sony Corporation

Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate that produces a wide range of products and services, including consumer electronics, gaming, entertainment, and financial services. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Sony has operations in over 190 countries and employs approximately 111,700 people worldwide. The company's mission is to inspire and fulfill people's curiosity and creativity through the power of technology, entertainment, and innovation.
Learn more about Sony Corporation
Size
111,700 employees
Market Cap
$96 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1,077.4 billion
Founded
1946
5 Year Trend
+5.5%
Revenue
$8,527.6 billion
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