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 Product Manager for Music Distribution & Rights Management. This team manages the vital link between music creation and a fan’s headphones, ensuring our music reaches platforms like Spotify and Apple Music globally while protecting the complex rights that ensure our artists get paid. You will be a "user-first" thinker who is responsible for a portfolio of features and products, navigating the high-stakes world of global rights, supply chain automation, and high-scale digital delivery.
What You’ll Do:
- Continuous Discovery: Build deep empathy for our labels, operations teams, and global partners by maintaining a constant dialogue with them. Uncover their underlying pain points, ensuring that every solution we build truly solves their problems and makes their daily workflows more seamless.
- Strategy & Roadmap: Define and communicate the long-term vision and roadmap for your products, ensuring it aligns with WMG’s global distribution and rights strategy.
- Product Trio Collaboration: Work in a "Product Trio" alongside Engineering and Design to solve complex problems, resolving trade-offs and tackling risks.
- Execution & Ownership: Serve as the primary author of PRDs and the "executor-in-chief" for your projects, driving development from ideation through technical delivery.
- Launch & Impact: Develop comprehensive go-to-market strategies, including product positioning, internal messaging, and launch plans. You don't just "ship" code; you ensure the organization is ready to adopt it to achieve maximum impact.
- Rights & Distribution Excellence: Architect solutions that embrace evolving landscapes like AI while building the guardrails necessary to protect artist livelihoods and manage global rightsholder conflicts.
- Analytical Optimization: Continuously monitor product performance metrics, user feedback, and market trends. Use this data to make informed prioritization decisions, identify areas for improvement, and manage technical debt to optimize the product over its entire lifecycle.
About You:
- Experienced: You have at least 5 years of product management experience, ideally with exposure to digital media, supply chains, or complex financial/rights systems.
- Technical & Business Savvy: You can discuss system architecture with engineers and business constraints with executives, mitigating Value, Usability, Feasibility, and Business Viability risks upfront.
- A Master Storyteller: You own the "Why" and can easily adjust your communication style for different audiences, from developers to more senior stakeholders.
- Biased to Action: You have a proven ability to unstick a team, make difficult prioritization decisions, and navigate the ambiguity of a global business.
- Humble Leader: You have strong opinions, held weakly; you are quick to share credit with your team and accept responsibility when things don’t go as planned.
- Mission-Driven: You are a music fan motivated by the fact that your work directly impacts an artist’s ability to grow their career and get paid.
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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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.
Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
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.
