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 a network of small, autonomous and cross disciplinary product teams, who act as microenterprises. In order to be agile and innovative, we need degrees of freedom and agility! Empowerment and community are part of our culture. By solving our users’ problems, we generate added value for Universal Music. The B3S-Team forms the digital foundation for our business and actively contributes to the competitive advantage of Universal Music.
Here’s your chance to learn and shape our future together with us! We’re looking for a Working Student (all genders) to become part of our Design & Research Team within Beats & Bytes at our Headquarters in Berlin.
Your opportunities and take aways:
- You will work closely with your colleagues from design and research to support them in their cross-disciplinary collaboration with product, engineering and marketing
- Support them throughout the whole user centered design process: From analyzing the underlying jobs-to-be-done of the different user types to defining the best possible solutions for them, while ensuring the overall user experience and the definition of the look and feel of various products
- Preparation, realization and evaluation of co-creation workshops with product teams, stakeholders and users
- Desktop research for design, research and design ops topics and tools
- Support evangelizing design and research topics through preparation of communication materials, e.g. visualization of UX processes, methods and insights
- You contribute to the creation and upkeep of our design systems, UI pattern libraries, and style guides
Your skills:
- You are enthusiastic about product design, are interested in current trends, and can demonstrate structured and conceptual thinking as well as a proactive and detail-oriented mindset
- You are skilled at using pre-visualization, prototyping (e.g., XD, Figma) and collaboration tools (e.g. Miro, Mural)
- You work well with others. You are willing to collaborate and communicate with various diverse teams throughout the company
- You are proficient in English and ideally German
Who we are:
- Music embodies emotion, creativity, adventure, tradition and innovation all at the same time – as a team we strive to advance the Universal Music project
- Diversity, respect and tolerance – both human and musical – are essential for us. Therefore, diversity and inclusion are consistently supported and championed by the People & Culture team as well as our Better Together initiative
- We live an open communication and thrive as a team – for this purpose we meet at eye level regardless of hierarchy
- In our business it is important to make good decisions quickly: We count on proactive employees who think ahead and find simple solutions
- Together we take responsibility, even beyond our daily business, which is why we are actively committed to more sustainability and environmental protection through our Sustainability Workgroups
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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, a selection of your favorite projects) as files and state your earliest starting date. Only applicants based in Berlin can be considered.
