National Director, Radio

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.

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: National Director, Radio

Your role:
Under general supervision, latitude for independent judgment and decision, and in coordination with other national directors, the candidate hired to fill this position will be responsible for securing, maintaining, and maximizing airplay for all country artists on a national level as well as supporting the field promotion staff.

Here you’ll get to:

• Secure radio airplay for WMN country releases and escalate upward chart activity

• Work closely with other national directors and field staff to find creative ways of doing business with our stations. Initiate promotions to market our artists at Country Radio

• Support field staff by covering radio and artist shows

• Communicate the status of our priority radio singles with WMN department heads and the company Use resources provided by other departments to aid with obtaining airplay

• Implement policies and procedures to enhance productivity throughout the promotion department

• Have a working knowledge/understanding of SAP

• Provide leadership, guidance and motivation to our national and local staff

• Travel extensively for in-person meetings, artist marketing activations, and promotional coverage

• Manage a Travel & Entertainment budget, ensuring timely filing of expense reports

• Create artist single budgets and manage actual spend in realtime

• Handle and safeguard confidential and proprietary information

• Must be able to effectively communicate internally and/or externally in a manner consistent with the company’s Code of Conduct and core values

About you:

• Proficient in using digital tools for tracking airplay metrics and song consumption, including Mediabase and Luminate.

• Proficiency in Google Workspace applications, including Gmail, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.

• A vast knowledge of Country Radio, country artists and their music

• Credibility and influence with radio programmers

• Strong relationship-building skills, particularly Country Radio programmers, artist managers and artists

• Possess a strong work ethic, strong organization skills and pay high attention to detail

• Have strong communication skills (written and verbal)

• Possess ability to adhere to deadlines and execute on tasks and handle multiple, diverse assignments

• Be able to anticipate needs and create efficient and effective processes

• Be self-starter, self-motivated and take responsibility/ownership of tasks

• Have ability to think outside the box proactively, strategically and analytically

• Be able to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to changing situations

• Have negotiation and problem-solving ability

• Have a high school level education, or its equivalent, and, a college degree or equivalent career experience

We’d love it if you also had:

• 3-5 Years’ ex