Sr. Manager Or Director, Media Relations

This is a Full Time Job

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.

A little bit about our team:

ADA Worldwide 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.

As the independent sales and marketing arm of Warner Music Group, the ADA team works closely with distributed artists and label partners from the US and overseas to help realize our common goals for promoting music on a global basis while optimizing streaming and sales opportunities. The Marketing & Services team is the heartbeat of its services offering, partnering directly with artists, managers, and labels -- as well as cross-functional ADA and Warner teams -- to bring artist campaigns life and grow audience across social, streaming, CRM, and beyond. We are both creative cultural experts and meticulous digital operators, driven by a passion to optimize, innovate, educate, and empower in harmony with our indie partners. We bring in new and exciting music to ADA from across the globe.

Your role:

ADA's Senior Manager or Director, Media Relations, will lead publicity efforts in the United States for a roster of artists and the company brand across digital, print, podcasts, TV outlets and more. You will partner with artists, labels, and internal teams to define artist branding and messaging, marketing and media targets for release campaigns. You will leverage a personal network of media contacts and partner with independent publicity agencies to secure artist coverage and opportunities. You will also collaborate on brand marketing and corporate communications for ADA including social media strategy, executive and employee press, industry events, and more. To be successful in this role, you will have creative problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of consumer marketing and cultural trends. This role can be based in NY or LA.

Here you'll get to:
• Develop and execute tailored media campaigns for ADA Label Services artist releases across all genres and provide best practices to our roster of artists and labels
• Devise and execute approach to artist communications strategy and publicity services
• Work closely with artists, managers, and labels to define artist positioning and brand pillars
• Expand and maintain a network of industry contacts, including journalists, editors of music publications, digital and social outlets, talent agencies, media organizations as well as tastemakers, bloggers