How Juliette Jones Became One of Warner Music Group’s Most Powerful African-American Women: ‘It’s Important We Use Our Power to Support Each Other

by Gail Mitchell via https://www.billboard.com

The highest-ranking African-American women at Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are, respectively, Motown Records president Ethiopia Habtemariam, Epic Records president Sylvia Rhone and Atlantic executive vp Juliette Jones. Here’s how Jones got to where she is today. (Find links to the other women’s stories below.)

Juliette Jones’ first interview for a record-promotion job took a weird turn.

It was 1994, and the male senior executive who would be her boss presented her with an off-color scenario. What would she do if a radio-programmer asked her to perform oral sex on him to get a record played?

“I said I’d been taught that all is fair in love and promotion,” recalls the frank-talking Jones. “So if that’s what we have to do to get records played, then I’ll be in line — right after the men. And he said, ‘You’re going to do great at this job.’”

And she did. Jones has parlayed that entry-level gig as Jive Records’ first mid-Atlantic regional promotion director for urban music into a nearly 25-year career that has included corporate-ladder-climbing stops at Virgin, J/RCA and Warner Bros. Traded …

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