Director / Sr. Director, Strategy & Operations, Office of the CEO

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:  Director / Senior Director, Strategy & Operations, Office of the CEO

Your role:

This person will partner with the Chief of Staff to the CEO across the below duties, with the goal of enabling the CEO to lead WMG with the utmost effectiveness and efficiency. The role will have a high degree of interaction (daily) with the CEO and be highly visible across his leadership team.

“Run-the-team” business operations

• Run annual & quarterly OKR (Objectives & Key Results) process across the entire company

• Own agenda & run preparation of materials for monthly Board of Directors calls & quarterly Board meetings

• Own agenda for & help run weekly leadership meetings

• Ensure delivery of regular CEO reporting (e.g., team updates / bullets, financials, operational KPIs, project progress)

Executive support

• Work with EAs to handle the CEO’s calendar and enhance the use of his time

• Ensure the CEO’s meetings are effective: Preview & provide advance feedback on teams’ work, prepare / pre-seed / pre-align partners, follow up on & close out action items

• Drive global & cross-functional collaboration: handle the flow of information and connect dots between the CEO & his direct reports, among the CEO’s direct reports, and across the rest of the company’s senior executives

• Serve as a strategic thought partner and sounding board

• Ad hoc presentation creation, memo writing, and data analysis

Special projects

• Short-term (<2 week) staff augmentation to drive forward progress on the highest-priority cross-functional initiatives

About you:

• 4-8 years in a strategy & operations, biz ops, transformation, program management, or similar type role

• Experience successfully leading large, complex, highly cross-functional projects and influencing collaborators of all levels of seniority

• High-EQ diplomat who is a master at reading the room

• Determined, creative problem solver and diligent, dependable executor – failure is not an option for this person

• Great communicator & storyteller: verbal, written, and in slides. Adept at tailoring their messaging to the audience

• Capable of absorbing and processing high volumes of information, and synthesizing it and applying it to connect dots

• Able to operate autonomously, comfortable with ambiguity

• Demands excellence from themselves and those around them

• A strong moral compass, discreet, mature, selfless

  We’d love it if you also had:

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