Job Summary:
WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, and collaborative. You have both an encyclopedic knowledge of music and trends but are also comfortable with data and quantifying those trends. You balance a combination of gut instinct and ability to track and synthesize social growth and engagement to identify what artists are about to break through. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you, please read on!
THE JOB
Live Nation Entertainment's Media & Sponsorship Division is seeking an Associate Artist Rights Manager. This role sits on the Artist Rights team, which has both booking and licensing teams. The team specializes in using our booking and licensing expertise to enhance brand partnerships (identifying, negotiating, and booking the right artists for our brand clients). The role will synthesize trends and data to educate the team and division and executional support to drive effective and successful partnerships, and synch. This is a full-time position which reports to the Senior Director of Artist Rights
Live Nation Media & Sponsorship architects, sells and manages the company's national corporate sponsorship programs with the world's most recognizable brands. It is an exciting, fast-paced team that collaborates with all facets of Live Nation's business including venues, festivals, ticketing, global touring, artists, content, media (digital, social, mobile), promotions, and concert production. To learn more about our division, check out: https://livenationforbrands.com/.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
Research and create artist one-sheets as needed (provide artist social stats/photo/bio, research for past sponsorships/category conflicts)
Draft talent offers and contracts from templates
Participate in talent brainstorms
Provide recommendations for integrated marketing proposals
Organize all talent submissions for different programs
Managing and tracking payments to appropriate parties (artist payments, licensing payments)
Process artist and licensing contracts, as well as tracking status of all contracts
Track and provide updates on artist activity to the Media & Sponsorship team (new releases, social media and streaming growth, identify trending artists, touring timelines, assemble touring lists)
Manage artist budgets against larger program budgets, including processing payments and tracking payment status
Assist with periodic client status calls and internal meetings, including the preparation of pre-call agendas and post-call recaps
Develop and grow relationships with key Live Nation teams (i.e., Digital and social media, Promotions, Content Production, etc.) to ensure the desired program delivery and results for clients
Explore marketing trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to add value to sponsorship programs
Support department-wide development initiatives
Additional responsibilities as requested from Manager and/or Senior Management
Continuously strengthen day-to-day internal client relationships through detailed knowledge of the different artist programs, client's industry and business, impeccable program delivery and client engagement
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
Bachelor's degree with 2+ years direct experience in the music industry,
Self-motivated with strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
Project management and organizational skills including managing multiple projects simultaneously
Attention to detail and a high level of organization is imperative
Interest in music industry, including a passion about music, current/relevant artists and industry trends
High proficiency in MS Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook as well as Google Suite products.
Must be able to think proactively and, at times, work with minimal supervision
Highly adaptive and proactive problem solving critical to success; must be resourceful individual who can quickly solve problems; ability to make independent decisions
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is 'Taking Care of Our Own' through 6 pillars of benefits:
HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF: Gene rous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, infertility support
CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network
Live Nation's policy regarding vaccinations and masking will evolve based upon updated regulations and factors related to COVID-19. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test within [24] hours of entering an office.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.
HIRING PRACTICESThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
