Darius "Woot" Johnson Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Songtrust is a global publishing administration service offering the most flexible and equitable publishing deal in the industry. We partner with songwriters, representatives, and businesses to build healthy songwriting careers. Songwriters build healthy careers when they take an active role in managing their business and owning their music. We empower them to do this by providing education, enabling them to register and collect their publishing royalties, and relentlessly searching for ways to simplify and unite the music industry around the worldPrimary responsibility were to discover, recruit, negotiate and secure high-value leads (writers, producers, labels, publishers, etc.) into Songtrust and/or Downtown Music clients.• Maintained strong relationships with artist, producers, songwriters, and other creatives while developing new contacts to expand company’s talent pool.• Executed the full A&R lifecycle, from client signing to delivery of catalog. • Researched and analyze historical royalty earnings to determine advance qualifications utilizing company CRM tools.• Collaborated with senior leadership across Copyright and Client Services to ensure day-to-day progress towards deadlines and key campaign milestones are met.• Managed the workflow across all business verticals to increase and promote internal pipeline leads with other OpCo’s. (Fuga, CD Baby, Adrev).• Worked in close partnership with Legal to negotiate contract terms for new client acquisition.• Represented the Songtrust & DMS Brand through showcases, in-person and virtual workshops, industry events and panel discussions.

Atlanta, Ga

Contributed to the global A&R team strategy by discovering and signing both emerging and established writers and producers in North America.• Assisted clients with initial onboarding (“Activation”) to ensure Songtrust ability to collect on their behalf.• Manage the end-to-end process from research to client activation.• Developed auditing procedures to ensure that all repertoire submitted to the PROs and MROs were successfully registered.• Executed client acquisition strategies to maintain relationships with industry stakeholders to retain long-term client success rate.• Worked alongside product management to develop marketing materials, strategies, marketing plans and campaigns.• Researched information on composers, songwriters, publishers, films, television, and soundtracks as needed. Confidential research reports.

Atlanta

Label founded and launched by Grammy Award Winning Producer Duo Ayo n Keyz. In charge of overseeing all label operations. Responsible for finding and signing new talent, leading the creative processes, coordinating marketing initiatives, networking to identify new opportunities for roster of clients, identifying new trends, representing the company at industry events, and managing project budgets between $10,000 - $200,000.

Atlanta

Co-managed the business and catalogue of Grammy-Award winning and multi-platinum producer duo Ayo N Keyz.Summary of Duties:・ Negotiated 75+ song & sync placement deals.・Helped facilitate and secure Joint Venture deal worth $275,000 with undisclosed Publisher. ・Overseen and co-managed all costs related to studio cost, travel, producer fees and advances. ・Coordinated and scheduled meetings, calls and appearances for roster. ・Worked directly with publisher to create sync opportunities.

Atlanta

Responsible for quality assurance of audio files to be distributed to label executives.