Production Manager, Content development & Operations (Temp)

2 Months ago • 4 Years +

About the job

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Production Manager for Broadway & Children's music with 4+ years experience in music distribution or label operations. Strong project management, metadata & content delivery skills are essential.

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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

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: Production Manager, Content Development & Operations (Temp)

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 Production Manager, Content Development & Operations for the Broadway and Children's music genres, who will develop and deliver new releases, as well as lead product development aspects of these ever-growing catalogs.

This role presents a special and unique opportunity to be one of the key people on a small, tight-knit team, directly liaising with all relevant internal departments, major brand partners, producers, artists, and more. The ideal candidate will work with external partners to ideate releases, create visual artwork, ingest and deliver audio content, generate metadata and see new release through to delivery in the digital and physical consumer markets.

Here you’ll get to:

Create label copy and keep track of all the integral details that create metadata
Drive the day-to-day processes involved in delivery of artwork, audio, track lists, creation of canvas videos, processing of music videos and recording information, from outside vendors and contacts
Manage label scheduling and operations teams for all digital and physical releases to ensure product set-up
Drive project content by collecting the elements of metadata and ensures those elements are collected and organized for music products, organizes and delivers audio files, delivers cover art to the production team
Understand and communicate release plan strategies for Children’s Media & Broadway content to clients
Head CD and LP production including setup with internal scheduling teams, hiring product designers, gathering assets from the production or artist management teams, routing approvals, and distributing promotional product
Own podcast scheduling and asset set up via podcast platform Art19, including submitting RSS feeds and initiating profile set ups to applicable DSPs
Transcribe lyrics and deliver to DSPs
Oversee Vendor Product Orders submitted to the internal WMG Artist Orders Team
Possess a “customer service” attitude while managing a variety of deadlines

About you:

Record Label or Digital Service Provider (DSP) experience in project management
Knowledgeable and passionate about music across the Broadway and Children's genres
Highly organized with strong project management skills, can bring fresh ideas to life
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
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in 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
Experience with producing or creating content, and bringing content to market

We’d love it if you also had:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
4+ years of previous experience in an operational, asset driven role at a distributor or music label

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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: Music With Vision & Voice.

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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.

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Salary Range

$30.00 to $33.65 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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