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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: We do our best work when we're immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we're committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

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.

A little bit about our team:

ADA strives to provide independent artists and label partners with access to the resources, relationships and experience required to share their creative vision with a global audience. We honor our diverse history and embrace the future with unwavering passion & ambition.

As the independent sales and marketing arm of Warner Music Group, the ADA Label Management team works closely with distributed artists and label partners to help realize our common goals for promoting music on a global basis while optimizing sales opportunities. The Label Management team sits at the center of ADA, collaborating with operations, sales, label services, finance, business affairs and the whole of Warner Music Group.

Your role:

The Label & Product Management role is a unique opportunity to work with exciting signed artists and independent label partners while guiding them through best practices and helping to get their creative content to the masses. In addition to being at the forefront of a creative community, this position has the visibility and engagement in new methods of music consumption.

By way of Label Management with an emphasis on Product Management + Digital Strategy, this role will have the ability to make a meaningful impact on ADA's business while also developing strong relationships with our partners, employees and co-workers.

Here you'll get to:

• Be the main liaison between a select group of ADA distributed label partners along with the internal global teams

• Develop positive 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 maximize the relationship

• Stay updated and educate all partners on top strategies for priority digital commercial accounts along with emerging trends in 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

• Work closely with ADA's team to plan, assess, and participate in artist campaigns to improve digital marketing exposure and track performance indicators

• Develop weekly performance reports for internal teams and partners to gain insights into the frequency of 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 managing follow-up/action items

• Analyze sales data with an effort to identify and optimize opportunity

• Implement, coordinate, and complete creative marketing, including managing project budgets.

• Identify and secure Label Services opportunity including radio, online marketing, press, synch, ticket bundling and more

About you:

• Be able to advise labels on release strategy to optimize single + album roll outs.

• Be capable of converting streaming and social data analysis into practical strategies

• Have strong understanding of DSP backend platforms

• Showcase a strong knowledge and passion for music across all genres

• Be motivated, creative, innovative, highly organized, detailed and multitask oriented while working under pressure

• Have strong 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 popular culture

We'd love it if you also had:

• 3+ years of label / distribution experience passionate about Product Management and Digital Commerce/Marketing

• Passion for Urban/Pop music

• Proficient understanding of digital accounts with the ability to establish and cultivate those relationships

• Broad knowledge of music, independent record labels and artist managers

• Strong knowledge of sales and production/metadata

• Demonstrated ability in encouraging effective partnerships with indie labels, musicians, and music industry representatives

• Experience with Photoshop, basic HTML and social media publishing tools

• Knowledge of digital advertising tools

• Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent business experience

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world's premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the "Apply" link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Don't be discouraged if you don't hear from us right away. We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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