Sr. Manager, Social Impact & Education

What You’ll Do

Social Impact & Nonprofit Partnerships

• Develop and own Suno's social impact strategy, establishing a clear point of view on the communities, causes, and organizations we exist to serve.
• Identify, evaluate, and build relationships with nonprofits, community arts organizations, and mission-aligned institutions where Suno can have genuine, measurable impact.
• Design and manage partnership structures, including platform access programs, co-branded initiatives, and grant or donation frameworks, that make Suno meaningfully accessible to underserved communities.
• Serve as Suno's primary relationship manager for social impact partners, ensuring consistent communication, mutual value, and long-term commitment.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Comms, Legal, and Finance to bring programs to life and ensure they reflect Suno's values and brand.

Education Partnerships

• Build Suno's university and education strategy from the ground up, targeting institutions, music programs, and ed-tech platforms where AI music creation has natural curriculum relevance.
• Establish and manage formal partnerships with colleges, universities, and music schools, including access agreements, co-developed curriculum materials, and educator support resources.
• Identify and cultivate relationships with faculty, department heads, and academic administrators who can champion Suno's role in music education.
• Explore integrations and partnerships with established educational platforms and tools to extend Suno's reach into structured learning environments.
• Represent Suno at educational conferences, campus events, and relevant academic forums.

Cross-Functional Impact

• Work closely with Product to advocate for features and access tiers that serve nonprofit and educational users.
• Partner with Comms, Music, and Marketing teams to develop storytelling around Suno's social impact, surfacing the human stories that demonstrate our platform's reach and meaning.
• Own the annual social impact and education budget and investment recommendation, presenting priorities to senior leadership.
• Track and report on program performance, partnership health, and community impact metrics that inform Suno's broader social impact investment strategy.

What You’ll Need

Required Experience & Expertise

• 5-8+ years of experience in partnerships, program management, or community development, ideally spanning both education and nonprofit/social impact sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to build programs from scratch; comfortable with ambiguity and energized by establishing something new.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the credibility to engage senior stakeholders at academic institutions and mission-driven organizations.
• Familiarity with the music industry, music education landscape, or AI technology (ideally more than one of these).
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; able to represent Suno's vision compellingly to audiences who may be skeptical of or unfamiliar with AI.
• Genuine belief that creative tools should be accessible to everyone, and the drive to make that belief operational.
• Ability to manage multiple partnerships and workstreams simultaneously without losing attention to detail or relationship quality.
• Some people-manager experience; may manage internal or external partners supporting program execution in the future.

Preferred

• Experience at a music technology, streaming, or AI company.
• Experience working within or alongside product and engineering teams.
• Experience writing and/or performing music.
• Experience in product/platform product demonstrations.