Chief of Staff, Marketing

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.

Title: Chief of Staff, Marketing

Your role:
The Chief of Staff will collaborate with the CMO, CEO, and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to develop and implement strategic initiatives, translating high-level goals into actionable OKRs. 

They will support executive decision-making, manage key programs, drive organizational improvements, and address skill gaps to enhance processes and productivity across the marketing function.

Additionally, the Chief of Staff will facilitate cross-departmental communication, prepare executive-level communications and reports, and ensure the consistency and quality of deliverables across the marketing organization. 

This individual will also play a pivotal role in expanding global marketing talent development frameworks, partnering closely with the People team lead.

Finally the Chief of Staff will oversee budget control of the CMO group in partnership with the finance team. 

Here you’ll get to:

Strategic Planning and Execution

• Partner with senior leadership to define and implement strategic priorities and change programmes
• Project manage key initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Identify opportunities for growth, efficiency, and innovation across the label.
• Oversee the annual identification and prioritization of tech team resources for Marketing in partnership with Marketing Enablement and Intelligence groups on both a regional and local level  

Executive Communication and Reporting: 

• Ensure relevant and timely updates to the CEO on Marketing Group strategy, delivering ongoing performance and progress updates 
• Lead on Executive Leadership Team cross functional comms - Define and own executive updates to ensure ongoing stakeholder engagement and alignment across interdependent business areas (catalogue, ADA, WMX) 

Group Performance Management:

• Run the annual and quarterly OKR (Objectives & Key Results) process across the global Functional Marketing Organization
• Partner with Finance and Regional Presidents to manage the bottom up allocation of FTE resources as well as the top down management of marketing investment across our global marketing organisation

Culture and People:

• Partner with the people team to ensure alignment of a productive and supportive culture across the marketing organisation, pushing forward our One Warner mentality
• Ensure learning and development programmes are being established and integrated across our marketing employee network

About you:

• 8+ years of experience in strategic or marketing roles within music, creative or entertainment industries
• Proven track record of coordinating with cross-functional teams and managing complex projects
• Great communicator & storyteller: verbal, written, and in slides. Adept at tailoring their messaging to the audience
• Capable of absorbing and processing high volumes of information, and synthesizing it and utilizing it to connect dots
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities
• Understanding of basic finance and change management principles
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Salary Range

$160,000 to $200,000 Annually

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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