Associate Manager, Label & Product Management

About the position

At Warner Music Group, we're a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment. WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds - an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Responsibilities

• Be the liaison between a select group of ADA distributed label partners along with the internal global teams.
• Responsible for coordinating and supervising all aspects assigned roster.
• Develop strong relationships with key individuals at distributed labels, artist management companies and directly with artists.
• Ensure that all partners are informed of all ways they can best work with ADA in order to improve the relationship and contribute to our partners business.
• Work closely with internal and external partners to ensure their visions and goals are driven.
• Remain current and help educate all partners on standard processes across priority digital commercial accounts as well as new methods of music consumption.
• Work closely with ADA's integrated digital marketing and commercial teams to bring campaigns and initiatives to life.
• Construct community/fan-building initiatives while brainstorming to implement exciting new online content and activations and optimize them for each distribution platform.
• Partner with ADA's or equivalent experience staff to strategize, review, and engage around artist campaigns to improve digital marketing visibility and measure performance metrics.
• Create weekly performance reports across socials and streaming for internal teams and label partners to better understand the cadence around priority projects.
• Provide account management teams with key marketing & sales information on new releases, on-going priorities & general label activity.
• Organize/lead set-up meetings for key releases including handling follow-up/action items.
• Analyze sales data with an effort to identify and optimize opportunity.
• Implement, prioritize, and complete creative marketing, including handling project budgets.
• Identify and secure Label Services opportunities including radio, online marketing, press, synch, ticket bundling and more.
• Represent ADA at various industry events.

Requirements

• Showcase a strong knowledge and passion for music.
• A creative problem solver in addition to strategic marketer who is driven by innovation.
• Be motivated, creative, highly organized, detailed and multi-task oriented while working under pressure.
• Have strong project management skills with the ability to drive projects to completion.
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Have the ability to translate analysis into actionable strategy.
• Have an exemplary knowledge of the digital media with an understanding of how it influences and moves digital content trends.
• Experience in music marketing ideally working at a record label.

Nice-to-haves

• 3-4 years of label / distribution experience with an emphasis on Product Management and Digital Commerce/Marketing.
• Experience working across Hip-Hop/R&B/Afrobeats genres.
• A strong understanding of digital accounts with an ability to activate those relationships.
• Broad knowledge of music, independent record labels and artist managers.
• Strong knowledge of sales and production/metadata.
• Track record of leading productive relationships with independent labels, artists and artist managers.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent business experience.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $64,350 to $65,000 Annually.
• WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business.