Assistant, Strategic Integration & Operations and Audio Asset Ingestion Support

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: Assistant, Strategic Integration & Operations and Audio Asset Ingestion Support

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Chappell Global Strategic Integration and Operations 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. 

Your role:

This is a multi-part role. You are the Assistant to the Global Head of Strategic Integration and Operations, where you will have ownership over all of the typical assistant duties for her.  You will also work on small strategy and operations projects and need to be an awesome deck builder. You will also help the Audio Asset Management (AAM) team acquire and ingest audio for our Global Licensing System. Being able to keep many balls in the air with flawless organization will be critical to your success. 

As the assistant, you will work to keep our team leader organized, while owning calendaring, travel, and expenses. This department is the intersection of music, technology, and business. You will help schedule meetings across all global departments and timezones. You are the face of our team and will have employees reaching out to you for questions related to strategic deliverables, timeline, access to systems or resources, etc. You will shine with your strong customer service skills as you interact with all levels of the organization ensuring positive experience and relationships. This role will offer global visibility and an understanding of all parts of the global music publishing world. 

The other part of this role is helping the AAM team track down and ingest audio for our creative teams to pitch. If you love and know a lot about music both new and old, are highly organized and a critical listener, this role will keep you engaged! You should have an interest in audio rights research and creative/administrative metadata tagging and a desire to create game-changing opportunities for some of the best songwriters in the world.

Here you’ll get to:

• Help us run smoothly by supporting the EVP, Global Strategy Integration & Operations 

• This role is part admin support, part project help as needed and part audio asset ingestion

• Process expenses, schedule and coordinate domestic and international meetings, maintain calendar items as needed, and coordinate domestic and international travel

• Help us manage projects and execute on key deliverables

• Improve processes by identifying gaps and inconsistencies

• Take notes, create summaries, work on presentations

• Proofread and edit drafts and final materials for appropriate consistent format and make corrections as needed

• Direct documents to the appropriate parties, obtain approvals when necessary, and make certain all deadlines are met

• Participate in meetings where you will repr