Warner Music Group – Senior Vice President, Data & Analytics – New York City, NY

Job Description

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Job title: Senior Vice President, Data & Analytics

Company: Warner Music Group
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Job description: WMG’s top priority is the safety and wellbeing of its team members, artists and songwriters across the globe. In response to COVID-19, WMG is fully committed to helping its people balance their home and life commitments with flexible working options, virtual wellness sessions, and more. WMG strives to maintain a COVID-free workplace. To that end, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for all US new employees, prior to the commencement of employment. If you are hired, you will be required to provide proof of your vaccination as part of your new employee onboarding process, subject to our legal obligation to make reasonable accommodations in certain limited circumstances.

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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
• Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
• Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
• Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

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.

Job Title: Senior Vice President, Data & Analytics

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Music Group Data & Analytics team is driving our strategic and operational analytics efforts focused on empowering and helping build the Digital Music Company of the Future

The Data & Analytics team stewards operational and performance metrics across our business domains, data management for our portfolio, as well as business-critical metadata operations. We are focused on establishing a strong data culture through transformation and empowerment of our global analytics communities. In addition, we strive to establish data as “currency” for our enterprise and foster a framework for trust in data.

Through cross-portolio engagement and collaboration, we are focused on defining and executing a data and analytics strategy that aligns with our strategic objectives.

Your role:

Reporting to the Chief Data Officer, the SVP Data & Analytics is responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and delivery of our global data & analytics efforts. Through direct stewardship of business intelligence, reporting, and analytics teams, as well as partnering across the portfolio with our data teams, business partners, global analytics community, technology and transformation teams, you will be responsible for executing and delivering on our data and analytics strategies.

Here you’ll get to:

• Drive strong partnerships across the portfolio to improve the value of our organizational data and analytics capabilities, and overall data culture and data literacy
• Work with the data governance, data science, data operations, and global analyst communities to drive collaboration around analytics solutions
• Partner with our business operations teams to anticipate, identify, and facilitate solutions and approaches to unlocking insights that drive our vision and strategies forward.
• Build class-leading analytics solutions that help drive intelligence, engagement, and integration across our product domains and services.
• Build and lead effective internal, partner, and vendor teams focused on iterative, scalable, and sustainable analytics solutions
• Drive the strategy and implementation of new analytics approaches and methodologies, related tools and services, and strategic partnerships.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for operational excellence in the areas of advanced analytics and machine learning.
• Help analytics teams establish development goals, align goals with business priorities, and evaluate success
• Understand interlinkages of product and technology strategies ‘big picture’ for the portfolio and enables the teams to achieve desired results

About you:

• Minimum fifteen (15) years’ experience in progressively seasoned leadership leading data, analytics, business intelligence, etc., teams in large scale/distributed and global environments.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience leading distributed analytics teams working across all disciplines of data including analytics, data science and data engineering
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in digital advertising, marketing, and audience engagement solutions
• Extensive experience in reporting, analytics, business intelligence, and insights development and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and distributed enterprise data environments including data lake, data mesh, and data fabric architectures.
• Experience building data and analytics teams
• Proven stakeholder management skills, credibility to C Suite levels
• Assertive, adaptable and demonstrates initiative in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize diverse elements of complex analytics projects to drive optimal outcomes
• Ability to excel in a large, matrix environment
• Strong analytical, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through experience and results
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Outstanding communication, presentation, active listening and leadership skills

We’d love it if you also had:

• Working knowledge of the music and/or larger media ecosystem.
• Working knowledge of consumer data platforms (CDP), audience segmentation and analytics, marketing automation, and related domain solutions
• Experience managing the compliance requirements and programs required to protect sensitive data, this includes SOX, GDPR, CCPA, BCP/DR, etc.
• Experience collaborating with teams comprised of both on-shore and off-shore models is recommended
• Ability to manage stakeholders and their expectations
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships with team members and customers

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. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

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.

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Location: New York City, NY

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