Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Warner Music Group Open · verified Oct 19, 2026 At a glance
Senior Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Warner Music Group. Los Angeles · full-time · $90,000–$110,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run assigned searches from intake through offer discussions and onboarding, including roles based outside the West Coast
- Advise business leaders with labor-market data and industry trends to shape hiring plans and talent decisions
- Build proactive sourcing plans and diverse pipelines for immediate openings and future hiring needs
- Lead projects that improve candidate experience and recruiting processes, and manage agency performance against agreed service levels
- Represent the employer at industry panels, networking events and campus programs, while guiding managers on interviews and candidate assessment
What you bring
- Five to seven years of recruiting from role kickoff through hire, including complex or senior searches
- Expert knowledge of proactive sourcing, including LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, niche networks and competitive intelligence
- Hands-on experience with modern applicant tracking and sourcing systems; Workday is preferred
Who this fits
This senior role suits a recruiter who can advise executives and hiring managers, lead talent projects, and work across teams and time zones. The role is based on the West Coast, recruits across locations, and requires at least four office days each week. The stated annual salary range is $90,000 to $110,000.
From the employer
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.
A little bit about our team:
The People Team sits at the heart of Warner Music Group and is focused on attracting, retaining and developing exceptional people. As part of the People team, our dynamic and diverse Talent Acquisition team is responsible for finding and hiring the best talent for the business, and partnering with our business leaders on their talent attraction strategies.
Your role:
At WMG, you will immerse yourself in a vibrant, creative environment, turning your passion for connecting people and music into a rewarding career.
As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, you will drive our end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, identifying and engaging high-caliber, diverse talent across the business. Acting as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, you will work with executive collaborators and hiring managers. You will craft proactive sourcing strategies and carry them out to meet business needs now and in the future. Beyond managing complex searches, you will lead strategic TA initiatives, champion our employer brand, and oversee key talent programs and projects. This is a high-impact role requiring strategic foresight, strong business insight, and a consultative approach.
Here you’ll get to:
- Own the full lifecycle recruitment for assigned roles, delivering an outstanding candidate experience from initial briefing to negotiation and onboarding. Although the role is west-coast based, you will recruit for positions in other locations and time zones, as well.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor to business leaders, using labor market insights, industry trends, and data to build hiring strategies and influence talent decisions.
- Design and execute innovative sourcing strategies to build robust, diverse talent pipelines for immediate hires and long-term organizational growth.
- Lead key talent acquisition projects aimed at enhancing candidate experience, optimizing recruitment processes, and embedding best practices across the organization.
- Manage agency partner relationships, evaluating vendor performance and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and SLAs.
- Represent the Warner Music organization as an employer brand ambassador at industry panels, networking events, and campus programs.
- Partner seamlessly with the broader People team (People Partners, Total Rewards, etc.) to deliver cohesive, business-aligned talent solutions.
- Drive recruitment initiatives, establishing strategic partnerships and talent channels to continually diversify our pipeline.
- Mentor and guide hiring managers on interview guidelines, candidate assessment, and competitive market dynamics.
About you:
- 5-7 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally combining agency and in-house environments, with a proven track record of filling complex and senior-level positions.
- Proven talent strategist with expert-level knowledge of proactive sourcing methods (LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, niche networks, and competitive intelligence).
- Tech-savvy, with hands-on experience using modern ATS platforms (Workday preferred) and sourcing technologies.
- Consultative approach with the confidence and executive presence to challenge, advise, and influence collaborators at all levels.
- Strong business insight, with the ability to quickly grasp industry dynamics and translate strategic objectives into effective talent strategies.
- Demonstrated project management capability, with experience leading TA initiatives, process improvements, or early-career programs.
- Ability to be flexible and nimble in an ever-evolving business environment.
- Data-informed approach, comfortable applying recruitment metrics to evaluate pipeline health and sourcing efficiency.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, capable of fostering collaboration across global and cross-functional teams.
- Outstanding organizational skills and process driven orientation.
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.
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