Creative Design Temp

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:  Creative Designer (Temp)

A little bit about our team:

The Rhino Art Department is the creative hub for the Global Catalog development arm of Warner Music Group. The art team handles ideation and creation of physical products, art for digital offerings, marketing assets, campaign tools for worldwide initiatives, and photo editing/research. We work on projects that support the greatest artists ever signed to Warner Music Group!

Your role:

This role will hold creative conversations for assigned projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and help coordinate with the project team to execute final art. They are responsible for vision, art from concept to completion, overseeing design and can balance a variety of assignments (both physical and digital).

Here you’ll get to:

• Provide art direction, design and vision for physical packaging and marketing assets

• Collaborate with content development teams, artists, and management on imagery/storytelling

• Be a hands-on artist, charged with executing complex design and layout

• Work with the production team on timelines, samples, and materials

• Advise on photo research, curation, and licensing of relevant material

• Traffic art files through editorial, and obtain approvals

• Communicate with our business affairs team on licensing and contract questions

• Source, hire and manage a variety of external creative designers and illustrators

• Design or illustrate original art for campaign initiatives

• Manage budgets and company resources

About you:

• Accomplished art director with 3+ years of related design experience

• Advanced knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite design programs

• Expert knowledge of package design and digital asset creation

• Can handle several ongoing projects, meet deadlines, and prioritize work

• Strong conceptual designer, a thinker, and problem solver

• Love to contribute ideas but can also take direction

• Passion for music and a desire to translate that into amazing art

• Self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and part of the team

• Excellent organization, project management and prioritization skills

We’d love it if you also had:

• A degree/certificate from an institute of higher learning (art/design related)

• Familiarity with physical packaging logistics, materials and finishes

• Experienced Mac user and are familiar with Google Workspace

• An understanding of video production and photography

About us: 

As the home to 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, East West, 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