Director / Sr. Director, Strategy & Operations, Office Of The CEO

Job Description

Job Title: Director / Senior Director, Strategy & Operations, Office of the CEO

Your role:

This person will partner with the Chief of Staff to the CEO across the below duties, with the goal of enabling the CEO to lead WMG with the utmost effectiveness and efficiency. The role will have a high degree of interaction (daily) with the CEO and be highly visible across his leadership team.

''Run-the-team'' business operations
• Run annual & quarterly OKR (Objectives & Key Results) process across the entire company
• Own agenda & run preparation of materials for monthly Board of Directors calls & quarterly Board meetings
• Own agenda for & help run weekly leadership meetings
• Ensure delivery of regular CEO reporting (e.g., team updates / bullets, financials, operational KPIs, project progress)

Executive support
• Work with EAs to handle the CEO's calendar and enhance the use of his time
• Ensure the CEO's meetings are effective: Preview & provide advance feedback on teams' work, prepare / pre-seed / pre-align partners, follow up on & close out action items
• Drive global & cross-functional collaboration: handle the flow of information and connect dots between the CEO & his direct reports, among the CEO's direct reports, and across the rest of the company's senior executives
• Serve as a strategic thought partner and sounding board
• Ad hoc presentation creation, memo writing, and data analysis

Special projects
• Short-term (<2 week) staff augmentation to drive forward progress on the highest-priority cross-functional initiatives

About you:
• 4-8 years in a strategy & operations, biz ops, transformation, program management, or similar type role
• Experience successfully leading large, complex, highly cross-functional projects and influencing collaborators of all levels of seniority
• High-EQ diplomat who is a master at reading the room
• Determined, creative problem solver and diligent, dependable executor – failure is not an option for this person
• Great communicator & storyteller: verbal, written, and in slides. Adept at tailoring their messaging to the audience
• Capable of absorbing and processing high volumes of information, and synthesizing it and applying it to connect dots
• Able to operate autonomously, comfortable with ambiguity
• Demands excellence from themselves and those around them
• A strong moral compass, discreet, mature, selfless

We'd love it if you also had:
• Experience working at a music company
• Experience working in a matrixed, highly cross-functional organization

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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 catalogue 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.

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Salary Range
$155,000 to $215,000 Annually

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

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EVerify Participation Poster.pdf

Right To Work .pdf

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3exvq-18-223-158-228-42 in your application.