Assistant, Promotion Job at Warner Music Group in Los Angeles

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.

Job Title: Assistant, Promotion

A little bit about our team: Promotion works towards developing awareness and exposure for records through various mediums focusing on but not limited to radio. The department works with marketing, sales, publicity, and digital marketing, creating grassroots and national promotion strategies to garner airplay at key lifestyle, club, and radio outlets.

Your Role: We are seeking an Assistant, Promotion to help develop awareness and exposure for their artists across various mediums, with a focus on radio. This role involves a blend of administrative duties and departmental tasks, supporting a large roster of artists, radio stations, and staff.

Here you’ll get to:

• Assist with daily activities for a large roster of artists, radio stations & staff
• Manage all administrative duties including: organization, calendar, email correspondence, and scheduling
• Calculate T&E reports
• Compose P.O.s for all invoices and expedite payment to vendors and staff
• Record weekly Targets & Projections from field staff
• Maintain a vast system of electronic and physical files, prize closets and stock
• Arrange travel for staff as well as promotional contest winners
• Track and ensure compliance for all Radio Promotion Guidelines and submit all required tax documents for contest winners when applicable.
• Act as a primary liaison to radio, management, artists, independents, field staff and promotional department
• Create, update and distribute adds sheets, Promotional Overviews, Soundscan reports
• Maintain department spending sheets – update weekly
• Communicate regularly with Mediabase, Soundscan, and R&R by running reports for reference and distribution.
• Research special projects relating to radio
• Order music in any format for use and outside promotions
• Set-up, coordinate and execute artist phone-in interviews
• Digitally distribute music via platforms that are appropriate to the task.
• Play an integral role in all types of radio promotion

About you:

• Proactive, can-do attitude, resourceful
• Excellent organizational and follow through skills
• Attention to detail and deadlines
• Able to multi-task efficiently and prioritize work load
• Able to identify system deficiencies and create new solutions
• Professional demeanor
• Good communication skills
• Career interest in Radio Promotion
• Music knowledge
• Proficient in Soundscan, Mediabase, Excel, Word, Outlook
• Knowledge of Photoshop, PowerPoint and emerging music technology
• High School diploma

Welcome to Warner Music Group! We are the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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. Our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary Range: $17.95-$22.00 per hour