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.
You'll be a part of Design and Insights within Beats & Bytes, supporting in shaping the experience of UMG's direct-to-consumer (D2C) and business enablement products. With the drive of excellence in craft, strategic product thinking and iterative mindset, you'll get to tackle and solve challenges within the ever-changing landscape of music and tech, and influence products that impacts internal colleagues but also millions of fans around the world.
Here’s your chance to join! Effective 1st July 2025, we’re looking for a working student (all genders) to become part of your Beats & Bytes team.
This is what you can learn here:
- Pursue excellence of craft: hands-on in creating experiences that are easy-to-use, accessible and immersive
- Deliver clarity and impact: navigating complex problems, shaping solutions that serve user needs and business outcomes
- Dream big, start small: embrace learnings that come from taking risks and iterate towards the bigger vision
What you’ll be doing:
- You'll work closely with your colleagues from Design and Insights to support them in their cross-disciplinary collaboration with product, engineering and marketing
- You'll support throughout the product development process: From analyzing the underlying jobs-to-be-done of different audience types to defining and testing solutions, championing customer-centricity and ensuring the quality of standard of products experiences
- You'll help prepare, run and evaluate co-creation workshops and sessions with product teams, stakeholders and users
- You'll contribute to initiatives (e.g. strategy, consistency, UX metrics) that drives UX maturity within and across the department, evangelizing the impact of design and research
- You'll help build and improve design systems, scaling for global use and empowering teams to move faster
We are keen to jam with you if you:
- You're actively enrolled as a student in an academic program in the fields of human computer interactions, product design and technology
- You are enthusiastic about product design, keeping up with new trends and tooling, and embracing the journey of taking risks and learning continuously
- You can demonstrate structured conceptual thinking and execution, as well as how to communicate it effectively
- You value building strong relationships and within and beyond product teams to drive collaboration
- You excel in creating clear, intuitive and appealing interfaces as well as prototyping and workshopping using Figma and collaboration tools (e.g. Lucid, Miro)
- You are proficient in English (German is a bonus)
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.
#joinuniversalmusic
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!
#YOUatUMG
