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Manager – Product Development

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

10,001+ employees

Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information

Compensation Overview

$79.9k - $103.4kAnnually

+ Bonus + Long-term Incentive Units

Senior, Expert

Burbank, CA, USA

Category
Product Management
Product
Required Skills
Sales
Management
Adobe Photoshop
Marketing
Requirements
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in production, product development or the music industry.
  • Strong technical aptitude required for various database, time management and archiving systems.
  • Must be highly organized and detail oriented with ability to handle multiple tasks daily.
  • Ability to manage self and others, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills with a robust work ethic.
Responsibilities
  • Manages the approval of the graphic elements related to all digital and physical products for Hollywood Records (HWR), from creation to completion. This includes creating work orders, coordinating corrections with the Creative team via collaboration with our internal partners to maintain deadlines. This also includes providing templates, artwork and general direction to the Creative team as needed.
  • QC’s product covers in Photoshop to ensure spec requirements for our digital partners.
  • Uploads digital covers to our distribution partners and sends notification for cover association which can include embargo instructions.
  • Archives digital covers in our internal asset management system associating the correct metadata and file naming per our standard operating procedure.
  • Fulfills cover and art requests from various departments throughout DMG, Disney and outside partners.
  • Fulfill artwork requests for sales, marketing and other departments. This involves researching products in our repertoire system and assets on various internal platforms.
  • Handles playlist cover requests in our work management application, which involves working with Sales and/or Marketing on cover direction, converting the request to a Work Order, routing for approval and delivery of final files.
  • Entering the Bill of Materials (BOM) for packaging in our distribution partner’s system.
  • Attending weekly staff/production schedule meetings and updating the schedule.
  • Managing a direct report who will assist in all tasks above.
  • Manage each folio (project) from the initial concept to completion.
  • Responsible for managing timelines and delivering assets to the licensee (artwork, label copy, splits, sheet music, audio).
  • Route folio layouts (cover, interior, and sheet music) to internal and external parties for approval.
  • Manage/maintain relationships with various publishers. Pitch content from new releases or new folio concepts, manage expectations and improve processes when necessary.
  • Route social media assets from our partners to marketing for approval and delivery.
  • Arrangement requests for concerts - receive request from the licensee. Check with the Disney concerts team to make sure there are no conflicts. Review sheet music and route to external parties as needed.
  • Print/Reprint approvals - approve the use of lyrics or sheet music excerpts to be used in textbooks, research papers, magazines, etc.
  • Assist in piracy take-downs.
  • Work with licensing team on new potential licensees.
  • Upload digital sheet music from film sessions to an internal archive database.
  • Safeguard assets by overseeing archival process, final QC prior to uploading, send and retrieve assets to/from storage.
  • Perform various sheet music and cue sheet research requests.
  • Deliver sheet music to various departments in need (Concerts, International, Parks).
  • Oversee and spearhead the music sheet transition from our partner to a deep archive. This will involve a potential temporary hire to help with the transition of digitizing, storing the assets safely and moving to deep storage.
The Walt Disney Company

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