Head of New Business - Music Platform (Based in HCMC)
Amanotes
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
<h3>About the role</h3> <ul> <strong>Objective:</strong> <li> <p>Own the vision, production, and go-to-market of Amanotes’ next music platform. Lead the end-to-end process from user understanding, concept, soft launch, global launch, and live operations.</p> </li> <li> <p>This role is to start it. You won't inherit a roadmap or a P&L. You'll inherit a strategic mandate, a CEO sponsor, a seed team, and the freedom (and accountability) to find product-market fit from scratch.</p> </li> <li> <p>You'll thrive here if you've started something before, if "I don't know yet, let me go talk to 30 users" sounds like a normal Tuesday, and if you'd rather pick one beachhead and dominate it than build for everyone and convince no one.</p> </li> <strong>Outcomes:</strong> <li>Identify and validate the beachhead segment within 4 months, with primary market research from 50+ creators and 50+ fans, not desk research.</li> <li>Ship the first paid version of the product to 5–10 reference customers in month 6, with documented evidence that they get value and would refer peers.</li> <li>Hit a defined product-market-fit threshold by month 12 (Sean Ellis 40%+ or equivalent), with cohort retention and unit economics that justify scale-up investment.</li> <li>Build a core team across product, engineering, growth, and creator partnerships, recruited against the strategic plan you set. Heavily leveraging new AI/Technology stack. </li> </ul> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Own strategy end-to-end, from beachhead selection to follow-on market expansion.</li> <li>Run primary market research personally, especially in the first six months. Don't delegate customer conversations.</li> <li>Define and test the riskiest assumptions before scaling spend, using MVBPs and concierge-mode experiments where appropriate.</li> <li>Set and defend the business model, pricing, and unit economics. Make tradeoffs explicit.</li> <li>Hire the founding team, set the operating cadence, and protect the squad from premature scaling pressure.</li> <li>Partner with the LiveOps, New Games, and Music App leads on shared infrastructure, content, and audience handoffs.</li> <li>Report progress against milestones to the CEO and board with the same honesty you'd want from a co-founder.</li> </ul> <h3> Qualifications</h3> <ul> <strong>Must Have:</strong> <li>Built a product or business from zero to material revenue, either as a founder or as the first business lead inside a larger company.</li> <li>Comfort with two-sided markets. You understand why supply and demand have to be solved together, and you've done it.</li> <li>A real customer-discovery practice. You can describe your last 20 user interviews and what you changed because of them.</li> <li>Fluency in the unit economics that matter: LTV, CAC, payback, cohort retention. You don't outsource these to finance.</li> <li>Track record of recruiting senior people into ambiguous, early-stage work and keeping them.</li> <li>You get more energy from making your team better than from being the smartest person in the room.</li> <strong>Nice to Have:</strong> <li>Have shipped in the creator economy, music tech, social, or live entertainment.</li> <li>Have led a P&L in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Indonesia, or the Philippines.</li> <li>Have raised external capital or built an internal business case strong enough to clear an IPO-track board.</li> </ul> <h3>Benefits</h3> <ul>
<em><u>At Amanotes, you will be enjoying the dynamic working environment with unique music culture many benefits as below:</u></em> <li>Competitive salary upon experience</li> <li>13th month salary</li> <li>Year-end Bonus and ESOP</li> <li>Flexible working time</li> <li>Personal learning and well-being budget</li> <li>Team-building budget</li> <li>Lunch and parking allowance</li> <li>Various learning activities, including internal training & sharing, international conferences, and e-learning (Udemy, LinkedIn Learning...).</li> <li>Engaging music events: Music Night, Amasing Night, Music schools…</li> <li>Employee Assistance Program to support mental health & well-being. </li> <li>12 days of paid annual leave, plus 10 days of paid sick leave.</li> <li>12 days working from home per year.</li>
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