Sync Junior Manager, Licensing
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 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.
Job Title: Sync Junior Manager, Licensing - Clearance
A little bit about our team:
We’re a close-knit team of music-lovers, highly encouraging of each other and keen to impress our artists. We partner with a wide range of media companies to influence and secure sync placements for our huge roster of music. We work across the entire Warner Music recorded catalogue, from superstars through to breaking-artists.
As sync placements now include anything from the latest Netflix show through to branded social media posts, we have our work cut-out, to understand who, what, when, why and where the next exciting placement will come from.
Your role:
You’ll be working closely with external clients, the UK advertising creative team, Business Affairs, Finance teams to ensure the smooth running and processing of sync deals for our artists. You’ll be working across the entire Warner Music roster, whether that be frontline releases from the most exciting upcoming talent to legendary artists behind some of the biggest songs known the world over, you’ll be at the forefront of securing sync opportunities within the advertising sector for our artists.
Here you’ll get to:
Be responsible for the processing of advertising sync clearances for Warner artists across the whole roster, which will involve negotiating, licensing and invoicing of sync deals within the UK advertising sector
Provide admin support to Senior Director of Sync and VP Sync, EMEA
Collaborate closely with our Legal and Business Affairs team to provide up to date rights information to the UK sync team
Work with our Finance teams to ensure smooth and efficient payment of sync invoices
Monitor market trends and ensure our business is tracked so we stay ahead of the curve.
Grow with your role and be encouraged to move our business forward
About you:
You will have an incredible attention to detail and be good with numbers.
You will be able to manage time and work under pressure.
You will have at least 3 years experience within a sync licensing role and be familiar with the UK advertising side of sync.
You are passionate about music and media.
You enjoy working within a team environment.
You will communicate exceptionally.
You enjoy the administrative side of the sync business.
We’d love it if you also had:
Experience working at a label, publisher, music supervision company before
Experience working with artists and management companies before
Experience negotiating, clearing, closing deals in the advertising space
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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