Music Management Coordinator

Job Description

At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.

As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.

Job Title: Music Management Coordinator

A little bit about our team:

Warner Chappell Production Music (WCPM) is a worldwide leader within the production and custom music industry with over 35 years of experience and success. Owned by legendary music publisher Warner Chappell Music and part of the Warner Music Group family, WCPM releases over 350 new albums each year (bi-weekly) spanning every genre imaginable. In total, WCPM represents 130,000+ unique tracks spanning pop, orchestral, country, hip hop, indie, indigenous and archival genres.

In addition to its catalog, WCPM produces custom music for TV, film, advertising, documentaries, promos and trailers, having composed works for Justice League, Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Suicide Squad, various projects for ESPN, Disney, ABC, Fox, NBC and Netlifx to name a few. WCPM is the leading provider for music to local news stations across the US and the recipient of many awards including Emmys, Tellys, Addys and Promax awards.

Your role:

As part of our robust post-production team, this position is integral to ensuring a high level of consistency for our bi-monthly album releases. This includes overseeing quality control of the metadata for both new releases and all of the catalog's 190,000+ discreet music titles as needed. You will ensure our taxonomy remains up to date and comprehensive and that our music is tagged correctly and consistently. This position is located in Los Angeles and reports directly to the Head of Production. Primary responsibilities include providing QC and metadata continuity for the 90+ WCPM catalogs including both wholly-owned and 3rd party catalogs, coordinating the updating of metadata for WCPM's back-logged catalogs, acting as liaison for external metadata providers to maintain consistent workflow and working with in-house tech teams to enhance metadata protocol. You will also coordinate with asset management vendors and the in-house technical team for various batch processing initiatives and help provide research pertaining to new protocols and approaches. You will work closely with the production team to ensure timely release of albums including assisting with QC-ing audio as needed. And you will assist the marketing team with copywriting and distribution of marketing assets to affiliates worldwide.

If you have strong creative writing skills and excellent spelling and grammar, are detail-oriented, a self-starter and have familiarity with a wide expanse of musical genres, this position provides an excellent opportunity to learn and grow within the production music industry.

Here you'll get to:
• Provide QC for administrative metadata (master ownership/administration, copyright ownership/administration, version, etc.) for all incoming WCPM production music assets worldwide
• Provide QC for functional creative metadata (including Genre, Sub-Genre, Style, Mood, Tempo, Lead Instrumentation, Key, BPM, etc.) to all WCPM music assets worldwide to ensure users have excellent search results on our various sites
• Assist Project Manager in maintaining workflow and establishing/overseeing schedules with external metadata providers
• Assist Project Manager and tech team with various large-format initiatives involving batch corrections to back-logged catalog
• Assist admin team with PRO and copyright research as needed
• Manage very high work volume and maintain high accuracy rate in data entry
• Create album and track titles as required
• Assist production with audio QC as needed
• Assist Music Creative team with the creation of various playlists in response to client search requests as needed
• Provide ongoing research gleaned from user analytics, competitive market analysis and general industry and music trends to keep WCPM taxonomy relevant and current
• Collaborate with our tech team to improve the tools & processes related to our asset management & delivery systems
• Assist Marketing Team with copywriting and distribution of marketing assets to partners worldwide
• Provide occasional administrative assistance to Head or Production including setting up meetings, travel, etc.

We'd love it if you also had:
• Must have demonstrated experience with creative and administrative metadata tagging
• Must have knowledge of music business fundamentals including publishing and global PRO structure
• Must have extensive familiarity with a wide expanse of music genres
• Must have excellent spelling, grammar and creative writing skills
• Must have basic understanding of music production, particularly post-production (mixing, mastering, audio prep, etc.)
• Must be extremely detail oriented with demonstrated experience in proofing
• Must be proficient with Excel and Box.com
• Must be a team player with experience navigating sensitive dynamics when working with creative individuals including producers and composers
• Must have top-notch written and oral communication skills
• Must be resourceful and proactive in foreseeing general needs of the team
• Must have good organizational skills
• Must be a self-starter, self-motivated and take responsibility/ownership of tasks
• Must be trusted to handle and safeguard confidential and proprietary information
• Musician
• Experience with AlterYX
• Experience creating/understanding algorithms as they pertain to metadata

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rz83b7-18-119-143-4-42 in your application.