Job Title: Head of Asia

Employer: GoDigital

Classification: Full-Time

Reports to: CEO

Location: Asia- with possibility to travel

About the Company:

We believe success comes down to people. GoDigital Media Group is a multinational conglomerate with unique purpose, exponential growth and groundbreaking leadership.

GoDigital is an ecosystem of business units that unite content, community and commerce. We inspire happiness by connecting consumer passion points in music, entertainment, and sports. Our 1000+ employees share values that drive business results. GDMG partners with others that share our vision. The GoDigital Way is inclusive, extensive and collaborative. Join us.

About the Role:

As the Head of Asia, we are seeking a leader who blends strategic vision, cultural fluency, and operational excellence across the music and entertainment ecosystem. This role will own regional growth, operations, and brand presence across all Asian markets—balancing global alignment with empowered local execution. You will be responsible for rebuilding, strengthening, and expanding current operations, partnerships, and market relationships.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide strategic and commercial leadership across Asian markets, including full P&L ownership and regional revenue performance.
Drive rights monetization initiatives across masters, publishing, neighboring rights, sync, and licensing categories.
Execute multi-country growth strategies, with proven ability to scale operations across Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, and additional key markets.
Balance catalog acquisition initiatives with new artist development efforts to achieve long-term portfolio growth.
Manage and deepen relationships with DSPs (Spotify, Apple, Tencent, YouTube, LINE, etc.), media partners, and rights societies (JASRAC, COMPASS, MACP, etc.).
Build and maintain strong ties with artists, managers, and local labels, strengthening GoDigital’s influence in the region.
Navigate diverse regulatory, copyright, and IP frameworks across Asian territories.
Localize global strategy into culturally relevant campaigns, signings, and market approaches.
Serve as a bridge between global expectations and local creative communities, ensuring alignment and cultural fluency.
Lead cross-functional operations by integrating label, publishing, and distribution workflows into a unified regional strategy.
Build and scale regional teams across marketing, A&R, finance, operations, and data.
Design and implement processes and reporting aligned with HQ systems (CRM, Salesforce, rights management platforms, etc.).
Oversee multi-entity collaboration, including joint ventures, minority investments, and distribution partnerships.
Act as an entrepreneurial owner, building Asia as a business within the broader organization.
Develop new revenue streams, including brand partnerships, live opportunities, and sync licensing.
Operate effectively in emerging, high-growth, and high-ambiguity markets.
Deliver key outputs including revenue growth, roster expansion, operational efficiency, strategic partnership development, and talent recruitment and retention.
Experience and Qualifications:

Demonstrated P&L ownership and strong strategic/commercial acumen.
Deep understanding of rights monetization across masters, publishing, neighboring rights, sync, and licensing.
Experience executing growth strategies across multiple Asian markets (Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Philippines, China).
Fluency in digital distribution economics, including DSP relations, metadata standards, and local platforms (JioSaavn, Tencent, Melon).
Established industry network with DSPs, media partners, rights societies, artists, managers, and local labels.
Ability to navigate regulatory and IP systems across diverse territories.
Recognized reputation that attracts high-quality talent and partners.
High cultural intelligence and understanding of language, nuance, and business etiquette across Asian subregions.
Proven ability to localize global strategy into relevant market actions and creative initiatives.
Experience building or leading multilingual teams.
Strong operational leadership, including cross-functional workflow integration and process/reporting design.
Experience in multi-entity coordination — joint ventures, minority deals, and distribution partnerships.
Entrepreneurial mindset with proven success in startup environments or expansion roles within global music or media companies.
Senior-level experience at label, publishing, digital platform, or rights management organizations (US-based or Asia-based).
Proven track record of artist and catalog performance across multiple Asian markets.
Ideally based in Singapore, Hong Kong, or Tokyo, and comfortable with regional travel.

Our team at GoDigital Media Group operates with the following core values:

Personal Improvement & Wellbeing: We are committed to doing the work to become the best versions of ourselves physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually in order to explore the world, build community, and curate living in a healthy state of joy, love and inspiration.

Empowered Thinking: We agree to do the work to metabolize our irrational fears so we can make rational decisions to achieve the outcomes we are looking for. This means we will be bold and courageous in failing forward, and we accept risk within well-managed parameters. The faster we hypothesize, test, validate or iterate, the sooner we succeed. There shall be no fear of rejection for speaking up; good ideas can come from anywhere; everyone has a voice; negative behaviors must be surfaced.

Integrity & Fairness: We seek a meritocracy where equity, inclusion, belonging, authenticity, honesty and integrity are paramount.

Service: We seek to deliver vastly more value than we cost and to make the world a happier place every day.

Company Benefits:

At GoDigital Media Group, we offer an industry leading benefits package that includes a variety of benefits including unlimited paid time off, ability to work 100% remotely, health insurance, dental insurance, tax deferred retirement plans, and access to experts in preventative care. We also offer fun items such as access to GDMG University which is our internal training program that is hosted by entertainment, music, and other industry leaders and company events/excursions.

Additional Information:

GoDigital Media Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our community. We are an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race (or traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision-making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 and over), sexual orientation, veteran or military status.