Brand Manager

As a Brand Manager, you are responsible for managing artist accounts and developing product strategy with creative oversight across a lineup of artists. You serve as the central lead for each artist, advocating for their vision and business throughout online sales, concert merchandise, premium ticketing, retail, and licensing. You are also responsible for driving projects through internal teams including building, manufacturing, promotional efforts, advertising, data acquisition, ecommerce operations, and finance. You are accountable for maintaining budgets and revenue targets for your roster, while partnering closely with marketing and advertising teams to optimize commercial performance.

Here you’ll get to:

• Act as the primary point of contact and strategic lead for a roster of artists and their teams

• Build and maintain strong relationships with artists, management, and label partners

• Develop and implement artist strategies across ecommerce, touring merchandise, VIP, storefronts, and brand partnerships

• Drive artist approvals across product, creative, touring, sales, and rights management initiatives

• Coordinate cross-functionally with creative, production, marketing, ecommerce, and finance teams

• Own artist calendars, key achievements, and performance tracking

• Manage budgets, revenue targets, and overall P&L performance for assigned accounts

• Oversee product development and creative direction in partnership with artists and internal teams

About you:

• 2-3 years of experience in an operational or similar role

• Experience working with or alongside artist management companies and or labels

• Deep hands-on experience with the systems and day to day operations of a merchandise and/or D2C company

• Ability to collaborate effectively across creative, social, e-commerce, and operations teams

• Highly analytical with a creative, forward-thinking approach

• Great communication skills

• Has managed a P&L

• Thrive in a very time-sensitive, deadline-meeting capacity

• Ability to adapt smoothly to shifting priorities

• Responsible with sensitive/confidential info

• Available to work outside of standard work hours for time-sensitive business needs

We99d love it if you also had:

• Creative abilities or the ability to use Photoshop

• Experience with social media management

• An understanding of production methods (namely screen printing and embroidery)

• A love for artists on Warner Music Group

• You have a passion for musicand entertainment

As 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 world99s 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 catalog 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.

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