Creative Director

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: Creative Director

A little bit about our team:

Global Catalogue is both the communication centre between Warner Music Catalogue labels and International Territories around the world, and the paramount frontier for marketing artists in the streaming era. We work closely with all labels and artists under the Recorded Music division to develop new catalogue opportunities in marketing, A&R, content development, and consumption, and then convert our findings into new strategies that are deployed across the company to our Catalogue teams around the world.

With catalogues from great heritage acts such as Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Prince, Eric Clapton, New Order, to more current artists such as Wale, Jess Glynne, Clean Bandit, Muse, and many more…the Warner Music catalogue is a rich and varied one that requires constant management and reinvention.

This can vary from reimagining a classic album, creating and promoting a playlist managed by us or encouraging consumption of key tracks on streaming services, through to maintaining artist profile with digital suppliers

Your role:

The Creative Director will spearhead the creative direction & execution of visual media supporting Warner Music’s iconic global catalogue artists. They will own & lead the global creative output for the Catalogue team, delivering best in class multimedia assets across social, digital, CRM & campaign marketing. This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced designer who can set both creative standards & actively contribute to design work where needed.

They will manage and develop a team of multimedia designers, with responsibility for workflow management, quality control, & performance. They will also provide strategic leadership across social-first content and platform innovation. The successful candidate will own creative processes, intake systems, and prioritisation frameworks, ensuring efficient delivery across timezones without compromising quality.

Here you’ll get to:

• Lead & develop a cross territory team of multimedia designers & creatives
• Own & shape a global creative department, setting standards, processes, & culture while building a best in class in house production function
• Stay hands on creatively, jumping in to hands on design where needed on high profile campaigns & complex creative briefs
• Drive creative excellence, providing specific specific, poignant feedback and guiding principles to uplevel design and editing, marrying performance goals and with creative conceit
• Develop and optimize a system of repeatable formats that drive storytelling
• Build efficient & robust workflows & system processes, creating intake, prioritization and production processes at scale

About you:

• You’re a senior multimedia designer and creative with hands on experience across social, digital & campaign creative
• You’re an audience empath to discern subtle tone and format considerations to nail the story
• You’re a confident people leader who knows how to develop designers and up-level creativity
• You’re highly organised and process-driven, with experience building workflows, managing multiple projects & balancing quality with speed
• You thrive in a fast moving ambiguous environments and enjoy building teams and systems from the ground up
• You’re collaborative, calm under pressure and confident working with senior stakeholders

We’d love it if you also had:

• Experience working in music, entertainment or culture led brands with a strong understanding of fan behaviour and platform trends
• A background in social first content strategy, with an instinct for what performs across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube & emerging platforms
• Experience managing external agencies or freelancers and holding them to high creative standards
• A natural curiosity for new formats, tools and creative technology

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.
 

This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration, which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships. #LI-Onsite

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, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.