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Wasserman Music represents a world-class roster of artists for live performance, touring, brand partnerships and beyond, empowering them to create culture and impact audiences globally. The passionate, entrepreneurial agents at Wasserman Music are long-term artist development strategists who build significant, global platforms for the world's most influential artists. Wasserman Music is a division of Wasserman, a partner to the worlds most iconic sports figures, musical artists, brands, and properties in their endeavors across sports, entertainment and culture. Our purpose is to transform and advance brands, businesses, and careers.
This Internship will be based in our Chicago, IL Office.
Internship Overview
Our internship opportunities within our Music Division are organized into four areas Non-Touring, Touring, Booking, and Brand Partnerships. The Non-Touring department includes our corporate teams surrounding operations, DE&I/Social Impact, Accounting, Business and Legal Affairs. Our Touring Division includes Tour Marketing & Digital Services and our Representing Agent teams. Our Booking team encompasses booking for Fairs&Festivals, Colleges and other venues/events. Brand Partnerships works closely within our music division and the broader Wasserman power to ideate, plan, and execute on partnerships for our world class roster of artists.
An internship with Wasserman Music provides an opportunity to shadow employees to learn about and participate in the functions of a US-based agency, such as:
- Uploading performance offers and show finals into the booking system to learn about deal structures
- Generating tour itineraries to get a better understanding of tour routings
- Assisting with aspects of the artist immigration process
- General shadowing of agent teams to learn the functionality of client services, professional communication, and overall workflow in the field
- Reviewing on-sale ticket performance information to create ticket reports to acquire insight about tour marketing
- Becoming involved in agency lead Social Impact and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
What Makes Our Internship Unique
Real work! Our program is designed to introduce aspiring music and entertainment professionals to the industry and our company by integrating them into client facing projects that our full-time staff works on every day.
Day-to-day Duties Include:
- Data Entry/Management and tracking of ticket counts, deposits and offers.
- Support the department as necessary with special projects or tasks that are both short and long term
Requirements
- Express a passion for the music and entertainment industry
- Must have high level of interpersonal skills to handle varied personalities and sensitive situations
- Demonstrate excellent organizational, time management and communication (written and oral) skills
- Computer literacy is a must
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