Senior Director of A&R and Label Acquisition

This is a Full Time 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.

A little bit about our team:

Alternative Distribution Alliance (''ADA'') is a worldwide service organization committed to independent artist and label development. As part of Warner Music Group, ADA gives the indie record labels and artists access to an unparalleled global distribution system and a dedicated team that provides a complete spectrum of marketing, merchandising, promotion, and music licensing services.

Your role:

The A&R and Label Acquisition Senior Director will play a crucial role in driving A&R communications and streamlining the dealmaking across ADA in the United States. This role will have a direct supporting relationship to the Vice President of A&R, will work closely with Legal and Business Affairs and Finance, and will collaborate with several other departments and global ADA team members.

Here you'll get to:

• Cultivate a network of contacts within the independent music community, and make creative connections with a goal of bringing in incremental business.
• Organize and run pitch meetings as part of the deal process, bringing in relevant members of the ADA team providing them contextual information and materials in order to improve business outcomes.
• Track, analyze and socialize pitch outcomes in order to enhance and grow our business and value proposition.
• Serve as point of contact and advocate for the client, making sure they are supported and understood throughout the acquisition process.
• Work with label and product management teams to manage expectations and socialize deal terms in order for proper service levels to be preserved with ADA partners.
• Provide guidance and expertise after partners become clients of ADA, improving their business outcomes and making relevant connections both creatively and within the internal ADA and WMG teams.
• Work with the finance teams to improve and solidify projection models for new deals.
• Work with internal data teams to establish pipelines for new talent, both from public data and track upstream opportunities through our various platforms.
• Attend concerts, studio sessions and playbacks as needed.

About you:

• You have 7+ years experience in the artist and label partnerships space.
• You have a strong passion and intimate understanding of cultural trends, and how those trends translate to the current music landscape.
• You have a wide network of contacts within the independent community, and have established yourself as someone...