
Commercial Lead, New Ventures & Monetization
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Job overview
The Commercial Lead will join Apple Music’s growth incubator and own the commercial side of the subscriber funnel for non-subscriber listeners. The role develops new monetization constructs and offer formats, builds business cases, and takes ideas from concept through approval and scaled execution. It owns commercial outcomes end to end, partnering with Product, Marketing, Editorial, Finance, and Data Science to ensure programs are economically sound and improve the listener experience.
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Role Number: 200693865-0836
Summary
The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it.
You will join the Apple Music Commercial team’s growth incubator — a small group that takes 0-to-1 bets on how Apple Music grows — and own the commercial side of the subscriber funnel: how listeners discover what Apple Music is worth, how we invite them in, and how we turn that into a subscription or a new form of revenue. Some of this is sharpening what exists today. More of it is building things that don’t exist yet: new offers, new formats, new business models.
Description
In this role you will develop new monetization constructs and offer formats for listeners who are not yet ready for a full subscription, building the business cases that take ideas from concept to approval and scaled execution. You will own commercial outcomes for non-subscriber listeners end to end, from opportunity sizing and goal-setting to experiment design and readout, partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Editorial, Finance, and Data Science. You will represent the Commercial team with cross-functional leadership and ensure every program launched holds up economically and delivers a better listener experience.
Minimum Qualifications
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8+ years of experience in commercial, growth, or business development roles, with meaningful time in subscription media, digital streaming, or consumer apps.
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Proven ability to take a commercial initiative from blank page through business case, cross-functional alignment, launch, and measurement readout.
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Deep expertise in funnel analysis and experiment design, including the ability to build funnel models from scratch and distinguish a real result from noise.
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Strong background in cross-functional collaboration with product, marketing, and data science teams on in-app or digital growth programs.
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Demonstrated ability to size market opportunities, set quantitative goals, and be held accountable to commercial outcomes rather than activity metrics.
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Track record of communicating complex commercial strategies clearly and concisely to senior audiences in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
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Bachelors degree
Preferred Qualifications
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Direct experience with app monetization mechanics, subscription funnel optimization, or channel conversion in a consumer digital product.
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Familiarity with music industry economics, including how streaming rights and licensing structures interact with consumer offer design.
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Skilled in thinking in business model terms, not just campaign terms, with experience designing novel offer formats or revenue constructs.
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Hands-on experience working within or alongside editorial teams, bringing a listener-first perspective to commercial program design.
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MBA or equivalent advanced degree, valued as a complement to hands-on commercial operating experience rather than a substitute for it.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 853 open Commercial Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$146–253K/yr62 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 76 open Commercial Strategy jobs in California and 853 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Accenture16 open
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.6 open
- Apple (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Commercial Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (737 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 442 of the 853 open Commercial Strategy jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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