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.
As part of the Design and Insights team at Beats & Bytes, you will be on the forefront of shaping the experience of UMG's direct-to-consumer (D2C) business and GenAI endeavours, with a focus on UX and Imagery. With a commitment to excellence in craftsmanship, strategic product thinking, and an iterative, curious mindset, you will tackle and solve challenges within the ever-changing landscape of music and technology. You will influence products that impact not only internal colleagues, but also millions of fans around the world.
Here’s your chance to join! Effective as of now we’re looking for a working student (all genders) to become part of our design 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:
- Innovate design workflows: Implement new GenAI tools (e.g., Figma Make) to shift from manual execution to faster, bolder AI-assisted creation
- High-fidelity production: Act as a primary 'AI-Producer,' generating premium image and video content for D2C brands and artist campaigns
- Prompting & curation: Master prompting for consistent styles and refine raw outputs into production-ready assets; assist in developing in-house tooling
- Rapid UX visualization: Accelerate product design by instantly visualizing abstract concepts and storyboards to align stakeholders early
- Knowledge sharing: Stay ahead of AI trends and share new techniques to constantly level up the wider design team’s capabilities
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're actively enrolled as a student in an academic program in the fields of human computer interactions, product design and technology
- Advanced prompting: You translate abstract concepts into precise prompts, iterating quickly to match specific styles, moods, and brand guidelines
- Curator’s eye: You bridge the gap between raw AI output and professional production, spotting errors and refining assets for high-end use
- Hybrid workflow mastery: You seamlessly combine AI tools with Figma and Adobe CC to accelerate ideation and asset creation
- You are proficient in English (C1), German is a plus
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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