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Sarah Martinico

Miami,FL

Summary

Music and partnerships executive passionate about turning innovative ideas into tangible results. Experience formulating and executing strategic plans, negotiating and developing business opportunities across music, brands and technology.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Marketing Lead

Gala Music
11.2023 - Current
  • Work cross-functionally with Brand Partnerships, Advertising, Social Media, PR teams, Product, Engineering, Legal and A&R to execute offline and online campaigns for Music Division, Recording Artists, product releases, music releases and events.
  • Design and oversee innovative marketing strategies within web3/web2, campaign plans and supervising the delivery of these plans from start to completion for artists such as Snoop Dogg, Death Row, Macy Gray, Anderson Paak, BRRAY, Rakim and more.
  • Coordinate the various phases of a marketing campaign with the wider team and managing marketing budgets
  • Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Working along side A-list artist teams, major events, production teams to increase and maintain outputs of brand awareness and sales
  • Driving revenue by tracking data and stats across music platform and app
  • Maintaining and pivoting new strategies within web3 and for the growth of music division

Founder

SL Music & Marketing
01.2019 - Current
  • Consultant for music publishers, labels, blockchain, recording artists, events and entertainment companies.
  • Creative & Digital Marketing
  • Business Development & Strategy
  • Account & Client Management
  • Brand Partnerships, Sponsorships & Sales
  • Music Publishing, Distribution, Catalogue Management and Administration


Business includes: Sony Latin, BMG, Flo Lab, Gala Music, Kinective Music Group, Timbaland, Ceelo, BIG3, Avid, Sound Royalties, Symphonic Distribution, Native Instruments, etc.

Manager of Marketing & Partnerships

Songistry
09.2020 - 07.2023
  • Find and secure catalogue partnerships with music publishers, labels, production houses, Grammy-winning clients, composers, film houses, enterprise accounts and more.
  • Oversee partner music audio and ingestion process
  • Plan and implement partnership and international marketing campaigns
  • Maintain all partner accounts and support any issues
  • Execute & maintain strategic partnerships to increase revenue
  • Work alongside A&R, Sync & Marketing teams for additional marketing support
  • Support Sales teams for sync negotiations, strategic partnerships and business development opportunities


Highlights

800,000+ music tracks onboarded within two years including legacy catalogues.

Partner Account Representative

Native Instruments, Sounds.com
07.2018 - 10.2018
  • Cultivated, managed and strategically leveraged relationships with all assigned music instrument digital partners to maximize revenue
  • Managed over 250 pre-existing partners
  • Identified opportunities for new and potential partners, producers, songwriters, labels and publishers
  • Helped develop loops, one-shots and Maschine expansion packages with clients
  • Assisted with marketing, social and merchandising campaigns
  • Created and managed assets
  • Performed market research and campaign analysis
  • Assisted partners with delivery of assets and ingestion
  • Provided support for issues on accounts, profiles or sound packages


Catalogue Marketing & Repetoire

BMG
07.2014 - 07.2018
  • Created digital internal & external marketing campaigns and artwork to support BMG's international publishing repertoire.
  • Oversaw legacy and front artists catalogues
  • Created and managed strategic partnerships to promote BMG catalogue.
  • Curated themed campaigns, playlists, artwork and reports to support all territories and marketing needs
  • Supported A&R teams internationally, built strategic tools to market BMG repertoire among writers, producers, and international teams via sampling initiatives
  • Supported the sync team with music searches, created sync edits, a capellas and instrumentals
  • Identified and reported issues related to copyright information in 2.5 million song catalogue
  • Inventoried physical assets from new catalogue acquisitions (Legacy catalogues, labels)
  • Maintained song metadata, reported and created new ways to solve issues with our main user system, song ingestions

Education

Bachelor of Arts -

Berklee College of Music, Bachelors, Music Production And Engineering
Boston, MA

Skills

  • Brand Deals & Partnerships
  • Marketing & Strategic planning
  • Account & Project Management
  • Business Development
  • Music Publishing
  • Web3 & Blockchain
  • Photoshop & Figma
  • Notion, Jira, Insightly, Clickup

Timeline

Marketing Lead

Gala Music
11.2023 - Current

Manager of Marketing & Partnerships

Songistry
09.2020 - 07.2023

Founder

SL Music & Marketing
01.2019 - Current

Partner Account Representative

Native Instruments, Sounds.com
07.2018 - 10.2018

Catalogue Marketing & Repetoire

BMG
07.2014 - 07.2018

Bachelor of Arts -

Berklee College of Music, Bachelors, Music Production And Engineering
Sarah Martinico