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.
Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s supporting our songwriters, ensuring we provide the right royalty data to global partners, or helping our creative teams use the latest AI tools to discover new talent—technology plays an invaluable role in our success. Product Managers help turn vision into reality.
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.
The Role:
We are looking for a Director of Product Management for Music Distribution to lead our core distribution team. This is an Empowered Product Leader role. You won't just manage a roadmap of features; you will be responsible for delivering business outcomes. You will partner with Engineering and Design leadership to solve the high-stakes complexities of global rights, supply chain automation, and high-scale digital delivery.
What You’ll Do:
- Product Strategy & Objectives: Define and evangelize a multi-year vision for WMG’s distribution ecosystem. You will translate business challenges into clear, outcome-based objectives (e.g., "Instant Global Availability") that empower your teams to innovate.
- Continuous Discovery & Innovation: Lead a culture of persistent discovery. Ensure your teams are validating ideas for value and viability daily, working in the "Product Trio" (Product, Design, Engineering) to tackle risks before a single line of code is written.
- Coaching the PM Craft: Your #1 priority is the growth of your team. You will recruit and mentor Product Managers, coaching them to master deep user empathy and business viability. You will foster an environment of ownership where teams are measured by the problems they solve, not the features they ship.
- Partnership & Advocacy: Cultivate trust-based relationships with leaders across global labels, legal, finance, and operations. You will act as a bridge, synthesizing their constraints into a shared vision that you champion across the organization.
- Principled Innovation: Drive innovation with a conscience. You will be the architect of a distribution strategy that embraces the evolving AI landscape while building the guardrails necessary to protect our artists' livelihoods.
About You:
- Proven Product Leader: You have extensive product management experience with a track record of leading PM teams that ship products to solve complex problems, ideally with some exposure to the world of music and/or digital media.
- Strong Technical/Business Sense: You can discuss system architecture with engineers and P&L constraints with executives. You understand that a great product must be feasible to build and profitable for the business.
- Expert on the "Four Risks": You don't wait for a launch to see if a product works. You mitigate Value, Usability, Feasibility, and Business Viability risks upfront.
- Extreme Ownership: You act as the steward of your product’s success. You embrace challenges as opportunities for leadership, rallying your cross-functional partners to navigate obstacles and find creative, viable paths forward—no matter the complexity.
- Music-Minded & Mission-Driven: You have a genuine love for music and the people who create it. You are motivated by the idea that your work helps artists share their craft with the world and build sustainable careers.
Vacancy Status: This posting is for an active, existing vacancy.
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.
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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.
