Audience Strategy and Email Operations Manager
Sydney
Warner Music Australia is a proud record label who understands that every artist and label partner is as unique as every music fan. We are a fearless, creative team of obsessive music fans who believe in each other and are committed to excellence for the international artists we care and work for locally and our beautiful, diverse and talented local roster that we call family.
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Job Title: Audience Strategy and Email Operations Manager
A little bit about our team:
Audience Strategy & Email is part of the Data & Insights and wider Commercial team, where we aim to grow, analyse, engage with and ultimately build artist careers off the base of core fan groups and through interpreting the data that we receive in return. With the major streaming platforms operating in between artists, labels and their fans, being able to curate and communicate with fans directly is hugely important for us to develop acts, understand the market and create authentic connections. Working alongside the insights, streaming partnerships, brand & sync and digital media teams, the Warner Music Australia Commercial team is at the heart of artist & audience development.
Why this could be your next big break:
We are seeking an individual who has a vertical skill set in audience growth and EDM communications, from top level strategy, coming up with creative ideas in ways to identify, target and grow first party data; through to email execution and engagement with those groups; and crucially analysis of both audience and email insights to continually improve and refine. It’s a newly created role where the successful applicant will be able to set the standards of best practice and newest features in Email and Audience channels, leveraging both their own skillset and our central Audience team, WMX.
Here you’ll get to:
- Create audience growth campaigns and initiatives using in-house tools and in collaboration with marketing, commercial and digital media teams
- Be at the forefront of new customer-facing technologies and initiatives for the music industry
- Analyse and segment first party data in order to optimise communication and targeted messaging
- Play a part in engaging fans, personifying the artist voice through email channel and owned brands
- Lead email operations to best-in-class with regular analysis and communication of insights
- Be a technical leader in our audience and email tools and the liaison with global teams for new features rollout and execution
About you:
- 3-4 years experience working across audience strategy, EDM campaign marketing, marketing ops or similar
- Strong technical skills in EDM platforms, HTML, audience segmentation, Linkfire-style landing page tools
- Highly analytical with ability to derive insights from data
- Creative mindset and thinking outside the box
- Understanding of data privacy principles and laws
- Strong knowledge of the digital media and digital tools landscape
- Excellent communicator and ability to collaborate
It would be music to our ears if you also had:
- Experience in entertainment or creative industries, and/or experience in an agency environment
- Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Experience in graphic design and/or Canva
- Experience with Tableau
Why join us?
Here at Warner Music Group we’re all about our people. We are one global company made up exclusively of knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people.
It is the mission of every member of the WMG team around the world to create a nurturing environment for artists, songwriters, and the people behind the music – at every stage of their career. We strive to set WMG apart by embracing a philosophy of innovation – it’s part of our company’s DNA.
Consider a career at WMG and be a part of one of the most influential forces in culture today.
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Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
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