Music Management Coordinator

This is a Full Time Job

At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.

As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.

Music Management Coordinator

A little bit about our team:

Warner Chappell Production Music (WCPM) is a worldwide leader within the production and custom music industry with over 35 years of experience and success. Owned by legendary music publisher Warner Chappell Music and part of the Warner Music Group family, WCPM releases over 350 new albums each year (bi-weekly) spanning every genre imaginable. In total, WCPM represents 130,000+ unique tracks spanning pop, orchestral, country, hip hop, indie, indigenous and archival genres.

In addition to its catalog, WCPM produces custom music for TV, film, advertising, documentaries, promos and trailers, having composed works for Justice League, Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Suicide Squad, various projects for ESPN, Disney, ABC, Fox, NBC and Netlifx to name a few. WCPM is the leading provider for music to local news stations across the U.S. and the recipient of many awards including Emmys, Tellys, Addys and Promax awards.

Your role:

As part of our robust post-production team, this position is integral to ensuring a high level of consistency for our bi-monthly album releases. This includes overseeing quality control of the metadata for both new releases and all of the catalog's 190,000+ discreet music titles as needed. You will ensure our taxonomy remains up to date and comprehensive and that our music is tagged correctly and consistently. This position is located in Los Angeles and reports directly to the Head of Production. Primary responsibilities include providing QC and metadata continuity for the 90+ WCPM catalogs including both wholly-owned and 3rd party catalogs, coordinating the updating of metadata for WCPM's back-logged catalogs, acting as liaison for external metadata providers to maintain consistent workflow and working with in-house tech teams to enhance metadata protocol. You will also coordinate with asset management vendors and the in-house technical team for various batch processing initiatives and help provide research pertaining to new protocols and approaches. You will work closely with the production team to ensure timely release of albums including assisting with QC-ing audio as needed. And you will assist the marketing team with copywriting and distribution of marketing assets to affiliates worldwide.

If you have strong creative writing skills and excellent spelling and grammar, are detail-oriented, a self-starter and have familiarity with a wide expanse of musical genres, this position provides an excellent opportunity to learn and grow within the production music industry.

Here you'll get to:
• Provide QC for administrative metadata (master ownership/administration, copyright ownership/administration, version, etc.) for all incoming WCPM production music assets worldwide
• Provide QC for functional creative metadata (including Genre, Sub-Genre, Style, Mood, Tempo, Lead Instrumentation, Key, BPM, etc.) to all WCPM music assets worldwide to ensure users have excellent search results on our various sites
• Assist Project Manager in maintaining workflow and establishing/overseeing schedules with external metadata providers
• Assist Project Manager and tech team with various