Assistant, A&R Administration and Business & Legal Affairs

Job Description

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Job Title: Assistant, A&R Administration and Business & Legal Affairs

A little bit about our team:

At the intersection of A&R, Business Affairs and Finance, A&R Administration oversees the recording process from a business perspective. This includes administering all A&R related budgets and handling recording-related legal issues and logistics. Further, the department serves as the primary interface between A&R/Marketing/Business Affairs and Production in the creation and release of all commercial and promotional products.

Elektra Music Group's Business & Legal Affairs department is comprised of two attorneys who are responsible for structuring, negotiating and drafting all new artist agreements as well as quarterbacking the myriad business and legal issues that arise in connection with Elektra's rostered artists.

Your job will be to provide strong administrative support to both teams with the opportunity to hone your communication, writing and research skills.

This position reports to the SVP of A&R Administration and the EVP of Business & Legal Affairs.

Why this could be your next big break:

If paying attention to detail, anticipating anything that might go wrong, learning from your mistakes, and getting things done sounds just like you, this is your opportunity. You will work behind the scenes, in a fast-paced team environment. Working for both Business & Legal Affairs and A&R Administration gives you a great opportunity to get a bird's eye view of the legal issues relevant to the entire music industry and to learn the nitty-gritty of label operations while interfacing with people from all across the label.

Here you'll get to:
In addition to general assistant duties (including answering phones and scheduling meetings):
• Coordinate artist travel, including flights, lodging, and ground transportation and the tracking of the associated spend.
• Process invoices, including the creation of vendors and coding of invoices in our financial systems.
• Correspond with vendors to issue purchase orders and resolve outstanding invoice issues.
• Arrange tracking, mixing, and mastering sessions.
• Draft transmittal letters and form legal documents, including Work For Hire and Remix agreements.
• Coordinate the creation of project numbers and royalty accounts with the Royalty Department.
• Assist supervisors with day to day management of recording projects.
• Engage in contractual and internet research projects.
• Have the opportunity to assume contract administration responsibilities for artist contracts.
• Prepare contract execution copies and coordinate the appropriate signatures.
• Open, record and distribute mail and other important legal notifications to the appropriate parties within the company.
• Prepare and submit expense reports.

About you:
• Have a college degree or several years' relevant experience as an executive level assistant in the music industry.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office and Outlook.
• Highly organized, resourceful, have an attention to detail and are rigorous about proofing your own work (and occasionally the work of others!).
• Excellent phone and communication skills.
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, numbers and math.
• Self-motivated and able to complete tasks independently.
• Calm under pressure.
• Hard worker for whom no task is too small.
• Have a passion for music and a genuine interest in the music industry.

It would be music to our ears if you also had:
• Some knowledge of the recording processes a plus.
• This is a position for someone who likes to work behind the scenes and as part of a team.
• Prior assistant experience including answering phones, booking travel and handling T&E.
• Paralegal experience, experience as an executive level assistant at a media company, music industry experience or any combination of the foregoing!
• Completed an undergraduate music business program.

About us:
Elektra Music Group was launched in 2018 as a stand-alone music company within Warner Music Group. Its roots extend back to 1950, when Jac Holzman launched the iconic Elektra label in his college dorm room. Today, that same entrepreneurial, independent spirit is the driving force behind each of the unique labels that make up the core of the Elektra Music Group: Elektra, Fueled By Ramen, and Roadrunner. The company's adventurous, eclectic roster includes culture-defining artists such as Brandi Carlile, Coheed and Cambria, Fitz and the Tantrums, Gojira, Kaleo, Korn, Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, Slipknot, Tones and I, Twenty One Pilots, and others.

With its broad and diverse roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics and Warner Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers with a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide.

For more than four decades, WMG has been an industry-leading force in providing a world-class array of services designed to help artists and labels grow their careers and their businesses. Artist & Label Services is the umbrella for WEA (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic) – the pioneering WEA distribution and marketing network – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

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