Job Description:

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.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

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.

Job Title: Arts Music Marketing Temp (Broadway & Children’s)

A little bit about our team:

Arts Music is Warner Music Group’s umbrella of labels dedicated to signing, developing, and marketing releases across genres such as musical theater, children’s music, classical, jazz, soundtracks, and film scores. Arts Music is the home of the Warner Classics and Erato labels for classical music and Ghostlight Records and First Night Records for musical theater.

Your role:

Do you love Broadway? Do you have fond memories of Children's music from your own youth? Are you experienced in marketing directly to consumers? We are currently seeking a highly motivated, self-starting, and organized Director of Marketing for the Broadway and Children's music genres, who will project manage and market new releases, as well as lead all aspects of these ever-growing catalogs.

This role presents a special and unique opportunity to be one of the front-facing people on a small, tight-knit team, directly liaising with all relevant internal departments, major brand partners, producers, artists, and more. The position is responsible for developing, communicating, and bringing to life new, tailor-made digital and physical marketing campaigns and products to these developing genres. The ideal candidate will adopt the implementation of standard practice strategies to ignite existing audiences, while expanding the musical footprint. The position will also lead in creating on-brand content and digital tools to drive engagement, sales, and consumption, and work in tandem with our digital marketing agency in the musical theater space.

Here you’ll get to:

Develop and implement comprehensive marketing plans for individual projects and overall brands
Assume day-to-day communication responsibilities across all projects and label partners
Become an authority in the history of each assigned project and brand as well as the landscape of the genre they occupy; this includes an in-depth understanding of the overall brand, past releases, previous marketing campaigns, social media presence, audience consumption habits, and more
Product manage physical releases from the ideation stage through release
Find new opportunities, research trends, and communicate and collaborate with internal departments and external partners to drive projects forward
Lead content creation from producing official videos to developing digital assets for use across social networks and streaming platforms
Work with Finance partners and manage relevant marketing budgets
Regularly meet with line manager to outline scope, timeline, and deliverables as well as establish relevant metrics for each campaign or project
Create and deliver regular updates to key partners (e.g. executive team, internal departments, external retail partners, external brand and content partners), highlighting campaign performance and growth opportunities that align with our strategic goals
Run post-mortem analyses on marketing initiatives to evaluate successes and failures, and continue to refine standard practices for future applications

About you:

Record Label experience in product management and digital marketing
Knowledgable and passionate about music across the Broadway and Children's genres
Highly organized with strong project management skills, can bring fresh ideas to life across a variety of departments
Strong time management, prioritization, and goal setting skills
Able to work independently, and remain calm in a fast-paced environment
Meticulous and diligent with superior follow up and follow through
Captivating storytelling skills which showcase new ideas and achieve presentation goals
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Google Suite
Motivated, ambitious, and have a passion to learn and develop relationships with a wide range of internal and external contacts
Teammate with a can-do perspective with an eagerness to collaborate
Strategic problem solver and a creative marketer
Willing to challenge the status quo and understand the need to evolve traditional marketing techniques for the modern music landscape
Interested in and excited about digital and social media, a tech savvy individual who stays up to date with trends and pop culture
Experience with producing or creating content, and bringing content to market
Results oriented with experience in streaming, sales, and marketing analysis

We’d love it if you also had:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
4+ years of previous experience marketing to audiences interested in specialty genres

About us:

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 catalogue 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.

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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.

Effective October 1st, 2023, this position will require being in the office 4 days a week. We believe that an in-office presence is critical for talent development, collaboration and building strong relationships.

Salary Range

$45.00 to $48.00 Hourly

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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