Indonesia Communications Lead, Sea Communications

With the best voice in the band, the Communications team speaks to an audience of millions every day. We’re storytellers, tasked with bringing what Spotify stands for to life on the global stage. Wherever and whenever our voice is heard, we ensure it remains authentic to the brand and supports business growth. Your work will impact the way Indonesians understand and learn about Spotify’s business, offers and news in our key markets.

We are looking for a new band member to lead Communications - Corporate, B2B, Consumer & Influencer PR - for Indonesia, a key market in one of Spotify’s fastest growing regions. The successful candidate will be a strategic problem solver and a hands-on implementer, leading proactive and reactive communications across our earned and owned editorial channels. We are also looking for a strong storyteller who can demonstrate both traditional, as well as non-traditional channels to amplify the Spotify brand and apply perception to build FOMO with key audiences in the market.

This role will be a direct report to Spotify’s Head of Communications for SEA who is based in Singapore.

What You'll Do

• Be adept at leading multiple projects and engagements that focus on thought leadership and creating talkability for the brand
• Manage external agencies (across PR and influencer), setting strategy while ensuring efficiencies of time and resources, and maximising business impact
• Regularly engage with and drive buy-in with stakeholders across the business, including leading as trusted communications counsel for our Spotify Indonesia team, and more broadly to the cross-functional SEA and global communications teams
• Work from and interact with team in-person from our office in Jakarta
• Work across functional partners - global, regional and local - to ensure that messaging themes for Indonesia are consistent across all external facing channels
• Lead both external and internal communications for Indonesia, covering all aspects of our business - including creator (music & podcasts), consumer, corporate, industry (music and advertising), crisis and employee communications
• Lead any issues and crisis communications
• Build and maintain positive relationships with key media and influencer contacts in the market, i.e., be the face of Spotify Indonesia to these targets

Who You Are

• Strong strategic problem solver and resourceful problem-solver
• Collaborative individual who enjoys partnering closely across teams and departments to build and distribute the most impactful communications possible
• Proficient in English and Bahasa Indonesia - outstanding writing and communications skills in both a must
• Great teammate who thinks locally, regionally and globally
• Proven track record of developing and executing strategic PR & influencer campaigns, with experience with creatively working with homeless/digital media and existing relationships with influencers/KOLs a plus
• Strong project management and agency management skills, with ability to balance short- and long-term priorities
• Motivated self-starter with hands-on attitude; happy to embrace a bit of chaos
• Ability to multitask and work in a hectic and extremely fast-moving industry and environment, without sacrificing attention to detail
• Ability to work across time zones and travel domestically and internationally
• You have more than 10 years relevant communications experience in media, digital, entertainment, tech or music industry comms
• Of course, an ever-enthusiastic representative of the Spotify brand!
• Ability to translate sophisticated concepts into clear communication

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.