Director, Emerging Technology - Global Business Development

About Sony Music Entertainment At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies. Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is seeking a Director to join our Emerging Technology team. This role is central to SME's work to drive innovation and bring responsible AI solutions into real-world use across the organization.

The Director will operationalize SME’s emerging technology priorities by managing the end-to-end lifecycle for promising AI vendors and tools, from scouting and evaluation through pilots, rollout, and scaled adoption. Working alongside SME labels and external partners, this role will equip teams with new AI tools and skills while running creative and business R&D programs that explore emerging capabilities, surface insights, and reshape workflows.

What You'Ll Do

: Vendor pipeline and evaluation Source and maintain a pipeline of AI companies, tools, and models that address creative and business priorities. Evaluate vendors using defined criteria and document findings to support decision-making. Build and maintain working relationships with existing and emerging AI vendors, staying close on product roadmaps, performance, and implementation needs.

Rollout and adoption Partner with internal teams to guide selected vendor engagements through contracting, security review, approvals, and launch logistics. Execute structured rollouts of approved AI tools across the organization, including stakeholder coordination, user communication, training workshops, onboarding materials, and case studies. Adjust plans based on adoption signals and measured impact.

Serve as a go-to advisor on AI tools and maintain feedback loops with users, vendors, and stakeholders to communicate updates and best practices, help users get the most value, understand evolving needs, surface issues, and inform prioritization. Cultivate internal communities of AI-forward practitioners to develop case studies and support pilots that transform workflows. R&D programs Lead day-to-day execution of R&D programs to accelerate innovation across content production, business operations, and consumer experiences.

Communication Develop executive briefings and reports to highlight progress, insights, and opportunities.

Who You Are

: Hands-on AI practitioner. You’re a power user of generative AI tools for content production and business workflows, strong in prompt engineering, conceptually grounded in how models are trained and fine-tuned, and ideally experienced with agentic workflows. Active in the AI landscape.

You track new models, tools, and vendors as they emerge and quickly assess what's real versus overhyped. You test tools constantly and have well-formed views on which ones actually deliver. Proven execution operator.

You've assessed startups or products, run pilots, managed scaled rollouts, and worked with partners to influence execution and product direction. Strong collaborator and capability-builder.