Universal Music is the market leader in the music business. The world's most famous and most successful record labels belong to us.
We've been writing music history for over 100 years representing legendary musicians across all genres. Our accomplishments are driven by our love for music, extraordinary artists and our ambitious team.
Beats & Bytes (B3S) is our tech organization and is comprised of a network of product teams. To be agile and innovative, we live and foster psychological safety, constructive nonconformity and diversity of thought! Empowerment and community are part of our culture. As the technical backbone we generate added value for Universal Music by solving our users' problems. The B3S Team forms the digital foundation for our business and actively contributes to the competitive advantage of Universal Music.
The Orbit team is the newest product team at Beats & Bytes. Orbit (Optimized Releases Bridging Information and Teams) will become our hub for coordinating music releases across UMG, from the very start to pitching to Digital Streaming Providers like Spotify, Amazon Music or Apple Music. We're currently launching our MVP, that we co-created with our users, in Germany before rolling out globally. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new product from day one - helping shape how UMG coordinates music releases worldwide.
Here's your chance to join us at this exciting launch phase! Effective as of now, we're looking for a working student (all genders) Digital Product Management to join us within our Beats & Bytes department at our Headquarters in Berlin.
This is what you can learn here:
- You can grow into the field of digital product management while exploring responsibilities of product marketing, product adoption, product operations and support
- You'll experience the full lifecycle of a product launch - from pitching and initial rollout through to supporting global expansion
- You can get insights into stakeholder management across labels, supply chain, and digital distribution teams in the music business, both in Germany and internationally
- You'll learn how to communicate value propositions and drive product adoption in a multi-market organization
- You learn about user-centric product management and agile, iterative development approaches
- You'll gain deep understanding of release planning workflows, including how different teams collaborate
- You will become the product expert for Orbit, learning deeply about its capabilities and becoming the go-to-person for innovative solutions to ensure both user and product success
- You'll see firsthand how to drive efficiency gains through process automation and system integration
What you’ll be doing:
- You are working closely with the product managers of Orbit in the business enablement division
- You work within a cross-functional setting, including change managers, engineers, product trio and user research in remote locations
- You support the initial rollout launching, creating a smooth adoption experience for our early adopters through trainings, support, and gathering user needs
- You prepare user educational material, workshops, presentations, vlogs, infographics and data flow charts specifically for release scheduling and planning workflows
- You are a guardian for product quality, including regular QA of new developments and bug reporting
- You may support the preparation and execution of the global rollout, helping onboard labels and teams across territories
- You contribute to the development of our Beats & Bytes community
- … what else would you like to learn? Let's talk about it, the possibilities are endless with us!
We are keen to jam with you if you:
- You study business, product management, marketing or another relevant field of study
- You love engaging with users and teammates in different locations
- You're enthusiastic and persuasive when presenting ideas and demonstrating value to stakeholders
- You have experience working with different user-centric product teams
- You have passion for digital technology, user-centered design, and process optimization
- You're excited about being part of a new product launch—from pitching to the German market through supporting global rollout—and helping drive user adoption from day one
- You have great communication skills and are quick to solve problems innovatively
- It's easy for you to display complex information and process flows graphically in an easily accessible way
- You are reliable and through your structured and organized way of working you can stay on top of stressful situations - especially important during a product launch phase
- Your communication and team skills are very good and you like working in an interdisciplinary and international team
- English and German skills are mandatory in reading, writing and speaking
Our values, our compass, our culture:
- Creativity – Home to Artists, Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
- Connection – We are ONE team.
- Passion – Music is our first love.
- Responsibility – It’s up to us.
- Diversity – Music is universal.
- Factuition – Guided by head AND heart.
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We look forward to receiving your application via our online application form! Please upload your documents (letter of motivation / cover letter, CV, references) as files and state your earliest starting date.
MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL!
As a large and globally operating company, Universal Music promotes diversity and opposes discrimination. We aspire to reflect the diversity represented by our artists through their music and individuality in our teams. We pledge ourselves to be an equal opportunity employer and enable individuals to express themselves – regardless of age, sex, gender, appearance, origin, faith, disabilities, or sexual orientation.
If you are unsure about submitting an application, because you have a disability or specific needs, for example, or you do not fulfil all of the requirements, we would like to encourage you to try it nonetheless!
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