Creative Project Manager

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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
• Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
• Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
• Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

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.

Job Title: Creative Project Manager

A little bit about our team:

The Creative Department at Atlantic Records is a full-service, agency-like creative team, dedicated to building artist careers through the intersection of Art, Video, branding, music, digital and technology, unlike any other at a record label. The full department works hand in hand for all artists acting as artist partners across all visual elements that are used to brand, identify and market the artists for music, video, touring, merch, sales and all other aspects of the artist career. Our creative teams partner with our artists, managers and marketing teams to narrate and bring to life the artists vision and world via all creative deliverables and assets. 

Our Art Directors are responsible for the overall artist brand and vision, and partnering with our video team to tell the story of the artists through all visuals. In line with branding, they are responsible for artwork for single, album cover, logos, all album packaging configurations, along with advertisements, promotional materials and special edition packaging for their roster. 

Our Video team takes the lead when driving the moving visuals forward for official music videos, visualizers, in-venue content, on the streets, BTS and editorial storytelling along with any social campaigns.  They are supported by an in-house production team who work side-by-side the Video Producers for production, shooting and editing needs. 

Our digital team has specialized digital designers and video animators who focus on bringing all video and art branding to life on the digital stage. They work closely with the Digital Marketing team, collaborating on the overall digital strategy, experiences for websites, webstores and email marketing. They also create promotional assets which include static, animation, lenses and social content to support all aspects of the artist roll out across Marketing, Digital Marketing, Commerce, Touring and Sales. 

The Creative department is led by Catherine Ciapas. Rob Gold, Derec Dunn and Mildred Delamota are collective partners who run the Video, Art and Digital creative teams.

Your role:

This role is the intersection of creative, marketing, technology, operations and production;  you will get to have your hands in a little bit of everything, for an agency-like creative team. If you are interested in and have experience in project management of art, video or digital creation and working within a large team, this position could be for you. 

You will learn how our Creative Department works at Atlantic Records and what the creative process looks like across art directors, digital graphic designers, short-form video editors and our video producers. You will help the team to stay focused on the creative and marketing, while we continue to stay efficient with our release schedules. 

You are thorough able to multi-task, and you will be coordinating many artist projects across different deliverables and teams at any given moment, while working in a fast-paced environment. 

Here you’ll get to:

• You will be the day to day coordinator of our creative release schedule and team board, assigning projects as they come into our team of Art and Digital Creatives.
• You will work across our Art Directors, Digital Creative and Video Producers to align the release schedule for all deliverables of a single or album. 
• You will work with a team of project managers to coordinate between the creative department and active projects
• You will intake project requests making sure all assets, directions and best practices are implemented
• You will keep an eye on deadlines, and coordinate all details of the project to completion. 
• You will work with our Art Directors to assign out all Art requests, including single art, album art, photoshoots, packaging and promo materials for our roster. 
• You will work with our Digital Creative team to assign out all static social skins, static social posts, motion video creative and lens creation. 
• You will work with the Art and Digital creative teams on workload and process, to keep everyone in a good flow and on time for each project. 

About you:

• You have 5 years' experience in a production coordinator or manager role
• You have AMAZING organizational abilities. If asked about your best attributes, you scream out “organization!” then this could be the gig for you.
• You can multitask and prioritize
• You can manage multiple deadlines and urgent tasks
• You are willing to learn a little bit of everything, and open to take on anything
• You are incredibly detail-oriented
• You are excellent at listening, interpreting, and communicating
• You are creative
• You are a self-starter
• You LOVE the internet, technology, social and music
• You are outgoing and confident interfacing with all employees/external partners

We’d love it if you also had:

• Some experience with Photoshop or In Design (or the Adobe Creative Cloud)
• Experience with Excel and Word (and shared documents)
• Experience with Slack, Box, Project Management tools like Asana

About us: 

As the home to 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through  a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels. 

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.
 

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG.  We love it here, and think you will, too.

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Salary Range

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