Creative Business Strategies (CBS) Manager - São Paulo (Contractor)

What You'll Do

Manage day-to-day relationships with talent participating in the project across music, podcast, and creator categories.
Own the end-to-end talent approval process, including routing materials, tracking approvals, securing sign-offs, and following up on outstanding actions across campaign phases.
Serve as the primary CBS point of contact for alignment with Music, Marketing, Communications, and Podcast stakeholders.
Support artist and creator content approval workflows, ensuring assets move efficiently through review cycles and meet production and marketing deadlines.
Coordinate closely with external production partner teams on talent logistics, scheduling, and rider requirements.
Maintain and update the master project tracker on a weekly basis, ensuring accurate visibility across all workstreams.
Monitor cross-functional dependencies and proactively identify risks, blockers, and escalation points.
Document decisions, action items, and outcomes from project meetings, maintaining an up-to-date decision log.
Provide ongoing project reporting and operational support to the project lead.
Support the development of the sponsorship strategy, including tier structure, category mapping, and brand integration guidelines for an event
Collaborate with commercial team on sponsor prospecting and pitch materials
Translate the event's creative and experiential assets into sponsor-facing value propositions
Track the sponsorship pipeline and provide regular reporting on commercial progress, revenue targets, and partner status.

Who You Are

You have experience managing large-scale entertainment, content, marketing, or live event projects with multiple stakeholders.
You are experienced in talent relations and can confidently manage communications with artists, creators, agents, managers, and partners.
You know how to coordinate complex approval processes while balancing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
You have strong project management skills and experience maintaining trackers, timelines, reporting structures, and risk logs.
You are highly organized and comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
You care about building strong relationships and maintaining clear communication across cross-functional teams.
You have experience working with external production partners, agencies, or event operators.
You are skilled at identifying risks early and driving solutions collaboratively.
You are comfortable operating in fast-moving, highly visible projects where ambiguity and change are common.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Portuguese.
You have proven experience developing sponsorship or partnership programs for cultural events, festivals, or entertainment properties
You have the ability to translate creative concepts into commercial opportunities for brands
You have familiarity with the Brazilian sponsorship market and brand activation landscape (desirable)

Where You'll Be

This position is based in São 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.
This role follows Spotify's Office Mix model, a blend of in-office and remote work.