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 ALPHA team is one of Beats & Bytes' product teams. ALPHA is a digital asset management system and information hub. It’s Universal Music’s central collaboration platform to manage music projects. We continuously develop the tool in co-creation with our users. Our vision is to provide the best collaboration experience for UMG releases and make our colleagues’ work lives easier, so they can focus on what they do best (watch the video to learn more about our vision). Since the product is already very successful in central Europe, we are currently rolling it out for UMG globally.
Here’s your chance to join! Effective as of now, we’re looking for a working student (all genders) Digital Product Management to join us within our Beats and Bytes department at our Headquarters in Berlin.
This is what you can learn here:
- You can grow into the field of product management and product marketing management
- You can get insights into tech-business-relationship management and label processes
- You learn about user-centric product management
- As part of a central department, you get insights into different parts of the company and learn about the project cycle of a music album
Your tasks:
- You are working closely with the product managers of the internal UMG product called ALPHA
- You are responsible for some of the product management and product marketing tasks
- You work in product trios with product management, design, research and engineering
- You have direct exposure to our users, e.g. gathering their needs, giving trainings on how to use ALPHA, helping them to achieve their goals through ALPHA support
- You actively contribute to the development of our product management standards and user-centric mindset within the whole company
- You help prepare events, workshops, presentations, vlogs, infographics and data flow charts
- You are a guardian for product quality and take the lead in communicating new releases to our users
- You aid us in the development of our tech network Beats & Bytes
- … what else would you like to learn? Let’s talk to adjust your tasks to your wishes and skills! Many things are possible with us!
We are keen to jam with you if you:
- You study product management, marketing, management, or another relevant field of study
- You love engaging with users
- Constructive nonconformity is one of your strengths
- You have experience working with different user-centric product teams
- Enthusiasm for the digital world is a plus
- You think strategically, analytically, innovatively, unconventionally and can quickly determine correlations
- It’s easy for you to display information 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
- Your communication and team skills are very good and you like working in an interdisciplinary team
- You feel confident and natural reading, writing and speaking English, German skills are 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, physical/mental ability, or sexual orientation.
If you are unsure about submitting an application because, for example, you do not fulfil all of the requirements, we would like to encourage you to try it nonetheless!
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