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Assistant, 300 Entertainment/Atlantic Hip Hop

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.

Your role: You would be supporting the Co-President of 300 Entertainment and Hip Hop, R&B and Global Music at Atlantic Records, in our New York office. Your work would be to support and fulfill all of their A&R and administrative duties. In this role you will have the opportunity to learn all aspects of the A&R process.

Here you'll get to:

• Manage and schedule meetings, showcases, and calendars
• Coordinate sessions for artist clients with producers and songwriters
• Handle travel and itineraries for A&Rs and artist clients, in addition to executives.
• Act as a liaison between the label, artists, and management companies
• Work closely with all departments including marketing, publicity, sales, product management, finance and legal
• Provide all levels of support including phones, scheduling, expense reports, artist meetings, travel, studio bookings, and more
• Liaise between artists and manager teams on behalf of the executive
• Organize meetings with all departments at 300 including A&R, marketing, publicity, sales, product management, finance and legal
• Attend weekly and bi-weekly staff and breakout meetings, staying up to date on each all artists on the 300 roster
• Liaise with different departments within the company, learning how each interact with each other
• Scout and research new artist, songwriter, and producer talent
• Review demo submissions and cover shows
• Provide creative ideas and support on team and brainstorming ideas of potential artists and present artists on the label
• Assist and have the opportunity to participate in coordination of song creation and record production. Work with songwriters, publishers, mixing and mastering engineers, studio managers, and artists throughout the process
• Maintain and develop relationships directly with artists
• Assist with Event Planning for the department and label as a whole
• Work with the A&R research team and help to compile weekly reports
• Cover studio sessions for the A&R's artist roster
• Attend all weekly A&R meeting and departmental song sessions

About you:

• Self-motivated and a great communicator
• Assistant or administrative experience
• Detail oriented and organized
• An amazing ear and hunger for new music discovery
• A vast knowledge and understanding of music across all genres
• Ability to maintain relationships and evaluate talent
• Proactive, passionate and driven to learn about all aspects of A&R

We'd love it if you also had:

• Previous music industry experience
• Experience using industry tools such as Sodatone, Mediabase, etc.
• Proficiency in Microsoft and Google suites

About us:

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 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 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.

Salary Range $19.23 to $23.84 Hourly 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.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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