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Creative Director

Warner Music Group

Los Angeles, CA 01-23-2026
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
Job Title: Creative Director
A little bit about our team:
WMX, Warner Music Group's culture-driving merchandise, creative content, and artist services' division, is a global full-service team that offers creative direction, production services, and support for WMG licensed artists and labels. We strive to enhance all areas of the business by providing concepts and expertise in design, production, visualization, and content to continuously match the evolution of the industry, and our artists.
Your role:
As Creative Director at WMX, you'll help shape how our artists' stories come to life
across music, fashion, and culture. You'll translate raw creative energy into visuals that
fans will obsess over, and collaborate directly with artists to turn ideas into products that elevate their brand. This role is fast-paced, creative, and plugged into culture-your work won't just be seen, it'll be remembered.
Here you'll get to:
• Lead Creative Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the creative direction across campaigns, ensuring all work aligns with brand goals, artist vision, and market trends.
• Direct External Creative Resources: Source, brief, and provide direction to outside design studios and freelancers. Provide clear feedback, elevate output, and ensure quality across multiple projects.
• Coordinate Freelance Design Support: Engage and guide freelance resources for graphic design assignments such as adapting existing creative elements to garments, packaging, and campaign collateral. Balance resources between conceptual design partners and graphic design-focused freelancers.
• Ensure Brand Consistency & Quality: Review and refine all creative deliverables to ensure they are on-brand, on-brief, and executed at the highest standard.
• Partner with Artists & Management: Collaborate directly with artists, managers, and internal teams to understand creative goals and translate them into compelling executions.
• Oversee Design & Collaborate with Production: Manage the creation of campaign assets, apparel, packaging, and visual designs from concept to delivery-meeting deadlines without compromising quality.
• Manage Workflow & Process: Partner with operations to coordinate asset retrieval, tech packs, and approvals, while maintaining an efficient and scalable creative workflow.
• Stay Ahead of Trends: Maintain a deep awareness of music, fashion, cultural, and design emerging trends; bring forward new ideas and best practices that keep the brands evolving.
• Champion Collaboration: Attend team meetings, act as the creative lead within cross-functional groups, and ensure smooth communication between brand management, creative, operations, and production.
• Deliver Results at Scale: Balance multiple projects in motion, ensuring on-time delivery of innovative, impactful creative for a diverse roster of artists.
About you:
• 6–8 years of experience in creative direction, graphic design, or brand design, preferably within retail, fashion, or music merchandise.
• Strong creative vision with the ability to translate brand strategy into compelling visual outputs.
• Proven experience sourcing, briefing, and managing freelance artists, illustrators, or designers.
• Excellent understanding of brand guidelines, visual trends, and cultural relevance in design.
• Experience managing the creative process from concept through final delivery.
• Working knowledge of production specifications.
We'd love it if you also had:
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• A strong network of freelance designers, illustrators, and studios you've successfully collaborated with.
• A passion for emerging creative tools, trends, and technologies (AI, AR, motion, etc.) and how they can elevate storytelling.
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 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.

#LI-Onsite
This position requires a minimum of four days per week in the office. We value in-office
collaboration and believe it's essential for talent development and fostering strong
working relationships.
Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary Range
$110,000 to $120,000 Annually
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.
Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Links to relevant documents:
2026 Benefits At A Glance
EVerify Participation Poster.pdf
Right To Work .pdf

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-12yv8y-18-97-9-173-42 in your application.

Salary Details
Salary Range: $110,000 to $120,000 Per Year ($ USD)
Company Profile
Warner Music Group

With a legacy extending back over 200 years, Warner Music Group (WMG) today brings together artists, songwriters and entrepreneurs that are moving entertainment culture across the globe. Operating in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and licensees, WMG’s Recorded Music division includes renowned labels such as Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin’, Warner Records, Warner Classics and Warner Music Nashville.