Coordinator, Business and Legal Affairs

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 turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

● Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

● Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans. 

● Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. 

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: Coordinator, Business and Legal Affairs

A little bit about our team:

WMG Global Catalog/Rhino Entertainment is the catalog division of Warner Music Group responsible for advancing the legacy of Warner’s iconic artists and optimizing the performance of Warner’s catalog of recorded music, including that of legacy artists and current superstars. Rhino’s dynamic Business and Legal Affairs team shares a passion for music and values hard work with a creative, problem-solving mindset. We focus on innovative deals with and for WMG artists in areas of recorded music, brand licensing, and ancillary exploitation. We work cross-functionally with A&R, marketing, fan engagement, commerce, and finance to structure deals and further strengthen relationships with our artists. We also field inquiries in connection with U.S. catalog repertoire, manage both pre-litigation claims and litigations in conjunction with WMG’s corporate litigation in-house counsel, and enforce WMG’s rights in connection with the same.  We also collaborate closely with our affiliated labels Atlantic, Elektra, and Warner Records, as well as WMG’s corporate teams.

Your role:

A key player on the team, this individual will support top executives and senior management within the Business & Legal Affairs department at Rhino Entertainment.  Additionally, this role will manage the calendar and scheduling for the CFO, Rhino & Global Catalog.  As the point person for the Business Affairs team, you will collaborate closely daily with a wide range of departments at WMG, as well as many other record labels within the company. Rhino Entertainment is home to Music by some of the most iconic musicians of all time: The Doors, Grateful Dead, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and many more. Want to develop a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes understanding of the Music Industry while supporting a leader in the field? This could be the right role for you!

Here you’ll get to:

• Manage executives' calendars, schedule meetings, arrange conference calls and travel arrangements, coordinate team meetings, order supplies, scan and collate documents, and answer and screen incoming calls, among other tasks

• Field and route incoming correspondence

• Submit, track, & maintain travel and entertainment expenses

• Prepare and submit invoices for payment

• Maintain the Business Affairs filing system

• Draft and distribute internal and external correspondence

• Produce presentations, reports, and charts as needed

• Maintain highly confidential and/or critical information

• Handle the circulation of deal approval memos for executive signatures

• Prepare documents for contract execution and post-execution handling, summarize and enter relat