Senior Manager, Label & Product Management

This is a Full Time Job


A little bit about our team:

ADA strives to provide independent artists and label partners with access to the resources, relationships and experience required to share their creative vision with a global audience. We honor our diverse history and embrace the future with unwavering passion & ambition.

As the independent sales and marketing arm of Warner Music Group, the ADA Label Management team works closely with distributed artists and label partners to help realize our common goals for promoting music on a global basis while optimizing sales opportunities. The Label Management team sits at the center of ADA, collaborating with operations, sales, label services, finance, business affairs and the whole of Warner Music Group.

Your role:

The Label & Product Management role is a unique opportunity to work with exciting signed artists and independent label partners while guiding them through best practices and helping to get their creative content to the masses. In addition to being at the forefront of a creative community, this position has the visibility and engagement in new methods of music consumption.

By way of Label Management with an emphasis on Product Management + Digital Strategy, this role will have the ability to make a meaningful impact on ADA's business while also developing strong relationships with our partners, employees and co-workers.

Here you'll get to:
• Be the main liaison between a select group of ADA distributed label partners along with the internal global teams
• Develop positive relationships with key individuals at distributed labels, artist management companies and directly with artists
• Ensure that all partners are informed of all ways they can best work with ADA in order to maximize the relationship
• Stay updated and educate all partners on top strategies for priority digital commercial accounts along with emerging trends in music consumption
• Work closely with ADA's integrated digital marketing and commercial teams to bring campaigns and initiatives to life
• Construct community/fan-building initiatives while brainstorming to implement exciting new online content and activations and optimize them for each distribution platform
• Work closely with ADA's team to plan, assess, and participate in artist campaigns to improve digital marketing exposure and track performance indicators
• Develop weekly performance reports for internal teams and partners to gain insights into the frequency of priority projects
• Provide account management teams with key marketing & sales information on new releases, on-going priorities & general label activity
• Organize/lead set-up meetings for key releases including managing follow-up/action items
• Analyze sales data with an effort to identify and optimize opportunity
• Implement, coordinate, and complete creative marketing, including managing project budgets.
• Identify and secure Label Services opportunity including radio, online marketing, press, synch, ticket bundling and more

About you:
• Be able to advise labels on release strategy to optimize single + album roll outs.
• Be capable of converting streaming and social data analysis into practical strategies
• Have strong understanding of DSP backend platforms
• Showcase a strong knowledge and passion for music across all genres
• Be motivated, creative, innovative, highly organized, detailed and multitask oriented while working under pressure
• Have strong management skills with the ability to drive projects to completion
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills
• Have the ability to translate analysis into actionable strategy
• Have an exemplary knowledge of the digital media with an understanding of how it influences and moves popular culture

We'd love it if you also had:
• 5+ years of label / distribution experience passionate about Product Management and Digital Commerce/Marketing
• Passion for Urban/Pop music
• Proficient understanding of digital accounts with the ability to establish and cultivate those relationships
• Broad knowledge of music, independent record labels and artist managers
• Strong knowledge of sales and production/metadata
• Demonstrated ability in encouraging effective partnerships with indie labels, musicians, and music industry representatives
• Experience with Photoshop, basic HTML and social media publishing tools
• Knowledge of digital advertising tools
• Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent business experience


We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

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This position requires a minimum of four days per week in the office.