Coordinator, Audio Asset Management

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, Audio Asset Management

A little bit about our team:

The Audio Asset Management (AAM) group is part of the larger Global Strategic Integration and Operations 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:

You will be part of the Audio Asset Management (AAM) team and 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.

Here you’ll get to:

• Research and determine missing audio assets from WCM catalog library to ensure the music is available to use for various creative initiatives and projects (film, tv, licensing).

• Review weekly circulars, gather schedule A’s from the ADMIN team, track down lyric sheets.

• Upload song and information from circulars into the Monday.com “audio ingestion priority list”.

• Research and liaise regularly with labels (big, small and independent) and songwriter Managers in a professional, friendly and efficient manner to obtain audio files and assets.

• Coordinate digital delivery of audio assets utilizing file transfer systems such as Aspera and Dropbox.

• Provide technical assistance to troubleshoot delivery issues of audio assets

• Notify appropriate team members for song ingestion when assets have been flagged and added to Monday.com.

• Partner with our Creative teams for all new writer signings  for “Welcome Packet” to ensure completeness (includes artist personal favorites, ideal syncs, favorite brands, etc…).

• Other duties will include helping build our songwriter database, gathering high-level press releases and finding memorabilia related to our writers.

About you:

• You will be eager to research and learn different catalog artists.

• You are a problem solver with the ability to reach out to the right people to eliminate roadblocks and comfortable with ambiguity.

• Strong organization, great follow-up and a good track record of creative problem solving.

• You won’t be intimidated to juggle multiple tasks and priorities

• You won’t mind challenging current workflow/processes and troubleshooting and finding solutions.

• You are able to build, maintain and develop relationships with a variety of internal/external stakeholders.

We’d love it if you also had:

• 1-2 years work experience preferably in a music company

• Knowledge of importing and exporting digital formats and comfortable with tech platforms

• Passion for Music

• Organized, detailed and great communication skills

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