Production Manager, Content Development & Operations

Job Description

Production Manager, Content development & Operations (Temp)

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.

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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.

Links to relevant documents:

2024 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf

EVerify Participation Poster.pdf

Right To Work .pdf

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3ejox-216-73-216-62-42 in your application.