Director, Business Development, Publishing Partnerships
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Suno is seeking a Director, Business Development, Publishing Partnerships to drive the strategy and execution of commercial relationships with music publishers. You will be a lead dealmaker in shaping how Suno partners with the publishing ecosystem.
This role reports to the Chief Commercial Officer and sits at the intersection of music, technology, and AI. It requires expertise in music publishing, extensive negotiation experience, comfort operating without a playbook, and the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across product, legal, finance, operations, and partnerships. This is a senior individual contributor role.
What You’ll Do
- Support Suno’s commercial strategy for partnerships with companies in the music industry, driving alignment across product, legal, finance, and operations
- Negotiate and close deals with publishers, including first-of-kind deal structures in a category that is still being defined
- Build and maintain senior-level relationships with such companies to expand Suno’s reputation and credibility
- Monitor the competitive and evolving landscape in AI music, advising leadership on market dynamics, industry engagement strategy, and partnership opportunities
- Develop scalable approaches to contract management, partner operations, and long-term industry collaboration
- Support strategic initiatives across ecosystem partnerships, and platform integrations as Suno’s commercial footprint grows
What You’ll Need
- 10+ years of experience in business development and/or commercial negotiations within the music and digital technology space
- Demonstrated experience negotiating and closing complex, high-value deals, including forging first-of-kind partnerships
- Experience working with music publishers
- Strong track record of influencing and aligning stakeholders across multiple levels, including executive leadership
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to execute multiple high-priority projects simultaneously
- High degree of autonomy, ownership, and strategic judgment; comfort navigating situations where there is no established playbook
- Strong product intuition and experience collaborating closely with product and technical teams
- Experience operating effectively in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments
Additional Notes
- London-based employees will be employed through Suno’s employer of record in the UK or through a consulting engagement
- Regular business travel to Suno’s US offices is to be expected
Suno is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
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Suno (operating under suno.com and formerly known as Shufflrr) is the premier, enterprise-grade AI-native audio platform, generative music synthesis pioneer, and full-stack sound engineering workstation engineered to operate as the definitive, high-velocity audio composition, voice modeling, and multitrack generation layer for content creators, musicians, and digital media platforms worldwide. The company completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern audio production—where creators face immense resource bottlenecks, steep learning curves in legacy DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), high studio engineering overhead, and complex music licensing restrictions—by deploying a unified, context-aware artificial intelligence composition engine. Moving far beyond traditional, passive royalty-free audio loop repositories or simple text-to-speech tools, Suno natively unifies text-prompted high-fidelity multi-genre song generation, granular vocal style steering (including voice inflection, exclusions, and gender controls), direct audio uploading for intelligent remix loops, and full-track stem separation into its flagship cloud workspace, Suno Studio. Powering millions of active creators and scaling rapidly past 2 million paid subscribers, the system manages billions of generated audio streams with production-hardened precision. Backed by hundreds of millions in elite institutional venture capital—including landmark investment rounds from Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners valuing the institution at over $2.4 billion—the platform features advanced proprietary audio diffusion frameworks capable of rendering synchronized lyrics, professional instrumentation, and clean, studio-grade WAV exports ready for mainstream distribution. What sets Suno apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing traditional audio synthesis barriers with absolute creative momentum and global licensing velocity; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive machine learning acoustics and intuitive, web-based digital composition interfaces, the firm remains the definitive, category-defining cornerstone of modern generative audio technology and scalable AI music transformation.
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