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.
At Warner Music Group, our Strategic Finance team serves as the analytical engine that drives both our high-level business strategy and day-to-day operations. By extracting actionable intelligence from core financial data, the team partners seamlessly across Warner Music’s Central Functions, Recorded Music, and Music Publishing to uncover deep business insights. Ultimately, Strategic Finance sits at the forefront of the company, mapping the financial dynamics and emerging trends that are actively shaping the future of the global music industry.
Your role:
As the Data Scientist for Strategic Finance, you will act as the crucial link between our financial strategists and the Technology department. A key part of your mission is collaborating closely with the technology engineers and data scientists who are building our state-of-the-art predictive forecasting platform, ensuring the tool perfectly aligns with business needs. Alongside this, you will deploy modern AI solutions to automate complex financial workflows and transform ambiguous, disparate data into standardized, cohesive datasets—moving the department away from fragile legacy spreadsheets and toward a highly automated, self-service data ecosystem.
Here you’ll get to:
• Partner closely with Technology and Affiliate Finance teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy a robust financial forecasting and planning tool that supports WMG's long-term modeling.
• Spearhead AI and automation initiatives to eliminate manual bottlenecks and streamline workflows across Strategic Finance.
• Enforce data integrity within Strategic Finance by collaborating with data management teams to architect datasets and automate rigorous quality controls.
• Work directly with senior finance collaborators to clarify complex problems and build the right analytical or technology-based approaches using large, dynamic datasets.
• Act as the trusted liaison between Strategic Finance, Technology, and data platform collaborators to ensure all technical solutions perfectly align with business priorities.
About you:
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of hands-on, practical experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks), Python-based automation, internal app frameworks (Streamlit), BI/reporting tools, workflow automation platforms (Airtable), and AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience helping teams adopt new tools, new processes, and more modern ways of working while staying grounded in business realities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement data science projects with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R for data analysis and model development.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and statistical tools.
• Strong understanding of SQL and working with large datasets.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical collaborators.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a bias towards action and a proactive approach to finding opportunities and challenges.
We’d love it if you also had:
• Familiarity with the streaming music landscape or other digital media
• Experience in finance transformation and EPM implementation
• Knowledge of accounting concepts and revenue recognition principles
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.
Love this job and want to apply?
Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.
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.
Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Links to relevant documents:
2026 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf
EVerify Participation Poster.pdf
Right To Work .pdf
Skills Required
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
- 3-5 years full-time post-graduation experience applying econometric and statistical methods in a business setting (preferably music, entertainment, or digital media).
- Proven experience working with and analyzing macroeconomic and industry-level data from sources like the UN, IMF, OECD, and World Bank.
- Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and model development.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks and statistical tools.
- Strong understanding of SQL and experience working with large datasets.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Proven capability to independently manage and carry out analytical projects and lead data science projects with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bias toward action, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to quickly learn and adapt to new techniques.
- Minimum of four days per week in the office (on-site attendance requirement).
- Familiarity with the streaming music landscape.
- Experience building analytical products and dashboards within BI software such as Tableau or Streamlit.
Warner Music Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Warner Music Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Warner Music Group.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies introduce flexible time off, expanded bereavement, paid holidays and sick leave, and remote-work allowances such as the option to work from anywhere for part of the year. Some divisions also observe seasonal early closures and office shutdowns around year-end.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include enhanced parental leave for non-primary caregivers and a dedicated family caregiver leave with full pay. Region-specific additions such as babysitting support and extended parental leave further broaden coverage.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, with added mental health and fertility support in certain locations. Wellness programs and primary-care partnerships are available in select markets.
Warner Music Group Insights
What We Do
With a legacy extending back over 200 years, Warner Music Group (WMG) today brings together artists, songwriters, and entrepreneurs that are moving entertainment culture across the globe. Operating in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and licensees, WMG's Recorded Music division includes renowned labels such as 300 Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin', Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville. WMG's music publishing arm, Warner Chappell Music, has a catalog of over one million copyrights spanning every musical genre, from the standards of the Great American Songbook to the biggest hits of the 21st century. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, the independent artist and label services company – as well as next gen artist services division WMX, which includes consumer brands such as Songkick, the live music app; EMP, the merchandise e-tailer; UPROXX, the youth culture destination; and HipHopDX, the hip-hop music news site. In addition, WMG counts storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment and social media content creator IMGN among its many brands.
