Music Visa Sponsorship Jobs in New York
New York dominates the global music industry with major record labels like Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group headquartered in Manhattan. The city's music ecosystem spans Broadway productions, recording studios in Brooklyn, concert venues, and streaming platforms, creating diverse visa sponsorship opportunities for international talent across performance, production, and business roles.
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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.
Job Title: Coordinator, Marketing, East West Records
A little bit about our team:
East West Records is a connector across WMG's global ecosystem, working closely with central marketing departments, international repertoire owners, and Global Commercial Services’ Digital Account managers, among others. EWR facilitates the U.S. release of both new and established artists signed to Warner Music affiliates around the globe without a U.S. label home. EWR is responsible for global repertoire optimization, partnering on production and scheduling updates, fiscal analysis of revenue results, artist development via U.S. marketing opportunities, and artist advocacy across Warner Music's global affiliate network.
Your role:
If you love global music, maintaining a vast schedule of releases from over 40 countries, scrupulously planning for day-and-date release with the rest of the world, helping artists be best positioned for success upon release, and working with cutting-edge financial and digital strategies on behalf of Warner Music and its global family of artists, this is the role for you. Across various functions, you’ll contribute to developing international artists in the global market, crossing borders and expanding their audience. It offers the opportunity to learn about a unique niche of the global music business that Warner excels in, in a fluid, ever-evolving environment.
Here you’ll get to:
Repertoire Optimization
- Support the release & optimization of WMG’s international releases each week:
- Refresh the release schedule for internal & external DSP partners
- Ensure necessary financial identifiers are in place & alert relevant teams to any discrepancies
- Relay delivery & mapping issues to Repertoire Owners
- Review periodic scheduling audits alongside Central Scheduling
- Prepare Monthly International Priority Report & Audio for WMG Labels
Marketing & Finance Admin
- Facilitate the end-to-end finance pipeline for U.S. marketing campaigns, including onboarding new vendors, setting up POs, and tracking invoices.
- Administer and organize East West’s submissions into WMG’s Global Pitch Tools
- Monitor, extract, and organize data pertaining to playlists, touring, charting, streaming statistics, and revenue metrics into clean, actionable spreadsheets
- Conduct regular roster reviews and system cleanups to ensure all artist data is current
About you:
- Bachelor's degree
- 1-3 years of experience in an administrative, operations, or data-entry role (music industry or media experience preferred)
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and able to multitask across priorities
- Expertise with large metadata files
- Proficiency in Google Workspace and GSheets/Excel (especially Pivot tables & VLookup)
- Airtable, Spotify Analytics, Tableau, Chartmetric, and Sodatone a plus
- Passion for cutting-edge technologies and innovation
- Interest in the Warner Music catalog
- Knowledge of other languages a plus; interest in global music preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills, high EQ, and trustworthy
- Proactive self-starter and resourceful problem solver
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.
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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.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration, which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships.
Salary Range: $23.07 to $25.65 Hourly
Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.
Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Which music companies in New York sponsor visas?
Major record labels like Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group frequently sponsor visas for international talent. Broadway theaters, Live Nation venues, SiriusXM, Spotify's New York office, and established recording studios also sponsor visas for roles ranging from A&R specialists to sound engineers and music producers.
How to find music visa sponsorship jobs in New York?
Migrate Mate specializes in connecting international professionals with visa-sponsoring music employers in New York. The platform filters opportunities by visa type and includes positions at record labels, entertainment companies, and music tech firms throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and other NYC boroughs that have sponsored international workers.
What visa types are most common for music jobs in New York?
H-1B visas are common for specialized roles like music producers, sound engineers, and A&R managers. O-1 visas suit internationally recognized performers, composers, and music industry executives with extraordinary ability. L-1 visas apply when international music companies transfer employees to their New York offices or subsidiaries.
Which New York cities have the most music sponsorship opportunities?
Manhattan leads with major record labels, Broadway theaters, and music publishing companies concentrated in Midtown and the Financial District. Brooklyn offers opportunities with independent labels, recording studios, and music venues. Queens and the Bronx have growing music scenes with emerging companies beginning to sponsor international talent.
Are there prevailing wage considerations for music roles in New York?
New York's high prevailing wages can actually benefit music visa applications, as they often exceed national averages for similar roles. The Department of Labor's wage determinations for music-related positions in the New York metropolitan area reflect the city's status as a premium market, which can strengthen sponsorship cases.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored music jobs in New York?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.