Digital Strategy & Business Development Analytics Lead

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: Digital Strategy & Business Development Analytics Lead

Department: Business Development

Location:  New York, NY

A little bit about our team:

WMG's Digital Strategy & Business Development team is responsible for leading the global deal negotiations with digital service providers on behalf of Warner Music Group. We strike deals with global distribution platforms and find new business opportunities in hopes of reaching audiences, growing monetization, and creating value for our labels and artists.

Your role:

In this role, you will support the ongoing efforts to strike global deals across the music streaming landscape by using your analytical skills, and industry knowledge.  The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding the intersection of music, technological innovation, and consumer behavior.

Here you’ll get to:

• Serve as a central leader within the BD team capable of supporting deal-making with strategic thought and synthesizing raw data into helpful insights and narratives for deal teams and senior management.
• Understand, track, synthesize data we receive from partners and help create regular update presentations, track trends, and lead ad hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives and deal-making.
• Experience in publishing data based insights to support a strategic business decision.
• Ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to craft engaging and compelling narratives based on data.
• Work with external stakeholders such as DSP partners (e.g., Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon, etc.) to use reporting to understand important trends and support decision-making across the global BD team.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of different segments of our business, leveraging industry data to identify trends and opportunities in the marketplace, with an emphasis on data storytelling.
• Analyze partner data and create models to help inform key decision making.
• Monitor emerging technologies, and media & consumer tech ecosystem trends for the purpose of developing new strategic initiatives.
• Assist in using data & insights to develop long-term strategies focused on WMG’s relationship with DSPs and diversification of WMG’s revenue and capabilities.

About you:

• 4-6 years of experience in a similar Business Intelligence Analyst and Financial Analyst role in the music publishing or rights management space. 
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker), and other business intelligence technologies (e.g., Alteryx).
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to derive meaningful insights from complex datasets.
• Proven record working in an analytical capacity, with large data sets to create complex models around deal, partnership, and industry trend forecasting.
• Music, media, or entertainment industry content licensing experience is preferred, as is experience with deal-driven analyses.
• Driven, and inclined to take ownership of all facets of dealmaking, from inception to execution.
• Proven ability supporting deal and project-based teams.
• Strong spreadsheet and presentation skills and high degree of attenti