VP, Head Of Product

Job Description

WMG's top priority is the safety and wellbeing of its team members, artists and songwriters across the globe. In response to COVID-19, WMG is fully committed to helping its people balance their home and life commitments with flexible working options, virtual wellness sessions, and more. WMG strives to maintain a COVID-free workplace. To that end, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for all US new employees, prior to the commencement of employment. If you are hired, you will be required to provide proof of your vaccination as part of your new employee onboarding process, subject to our legal obligation to make reasonable accommodations in certain limited circumstances.

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: VP, Head of Product

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Chappell Global Strategic Integration and Operations (SI&O) team is a small but mighty team focused on delivering and implementing business objectives. Working closely with our global leaders, we are responsible for driving and embedding our global business strategy. Technology is a very important part of our strategy, developing systems and products to amplify our business. This will be Warner Chappell Music's (WCM's) first Head of Product role and will report to the SI&O leader.

Your role:

You will spearhead the innovative vision for WCM products by developing and maintaining a prioritized strategic product development roadmap, developed in partnership with business leaders around the world. You will drive business alignment and buy-in on product strategy. This role will elevate the Product Owner function within WCM, by actively championing its value and promoting its awareness and understanding of product capabilities within WCM and WMG broadly.

Here you'll get to:
• Develop and lead a high-performing, seasoned team of Product Owners to further WCM business goals and objectives through integrated product strategies.
• Help connect Product Owners and respective product strategies into a comprehensive roadmap that helps to integrate all priorities and related activities.
• Coach Product Owners to share and collaborate across best practices and help provide consistent service delivery to WCM.
• Partner with WMG's Global Technology Team to balance technical vision, feature enhancements, maintenance, and product roadmap delivery.
• Ensure product launches meet the business goals and objectives as well as provide quality user experience.
• Develop business cases for corporate investment by highlighting each product's business value proposition, showing financial results of scaling the solution, and delivering a payback for the investment.
• Oversee product adoption, including respective change management, training, planning, and execution.
• Partner with WMG's Recorded Music division to maintain awareness of systems being developed and licenses being signed or used in our sister company. Look for ways to align where it makes sense.
• Lead communications across the top projects so that executives, all territories, and employees have visibility into status and what is to come
• Review old/outdated WCM systems to determine how we roll off them
• Define objectives and key results (OKRs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) for products, ensuring the respective monitoring and forecasting.
• Represent the vision of WCM Technology during monthly and quarterly portfolio review meetings.
• Understand market trends or tech changes within the industry and provide guidance on how our portfolio can become and remain progressive

About you:
• 10+ years of Portfolio/Product Management or Product Development leadership experience
• Must have experience working on global products
• Strong use of business analytics, both quantitative and qualitative to drive product innovation
• Must have a collaborative approach
• No ego as it relates to who does what
• Subscribe to a lean-in and roll up your sleeves to get it done mentality
• Demonstrate ability to be innovative and suggest change/improvements within scope of work
• Customer focus – (WCM business as the customer)

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About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We're the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.

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Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

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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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