Music is Universal

Its the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the worlds leading music company. From A&R to finance legal to digital sales to marketing Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

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We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition please email

The A Side: A Day in The Life

We are UMG the Universal Music Group. We are the worlds leading music company. In everything we do we are committed to artistry innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music music publishing merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters and we produce distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

The Director of Repertoire Products and Services reporting to the VP of Repertoire Products and Services and is part of a team driving the business engagement delivery architecture engineering and operational continuity of UMGs Repertoire Products and Services.

Finally this role is global in scope with teams in North and South America Europe and India and stakeholders around the world.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

The Director Repertoire Products and Services is responsible for delivery of technology capabilities that enable UMGs global business.

Be Technical

• Implement the vision for key Repertoire products & services with a team of product managers architects and engineers who are collectively responsible for designing building and servicing repertoire the respective products and services.

• Establish and enforce best practices in agile software development

• Understand and verify the technical and operational feasibility of all changes

• Ensure that all software is developed to established quality and security standards

Be Collaborative

• Work collaboratively with business teams technology teams and 3rd party business partners; to plan and deliver process improvements and technology features that are aligned with strategic objectives.

• Cultivate and manage relationships with internal and 3rd party technology teams.

• Co-ordinate change management with internal and external clients in a complex upstream business domain.

Person Specification

Necessary

• Strong experience of building APIs leverage by external terms preferably within the music industry

• Strong experience of services and / or microservices in an enterprise environment

• Strong experience of leading technology teams

• Strong technical understanding of modern API design and development to be leveraged by external teams

• Strong technical understanding of modern architectures specifically for services and microservices

• Understanding of modern frontend technologies frameworks and design systems

• Demonstrated commitment to customer service and high-quality service delivery

• Adaptability to shifting priorities

• Effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial

• Proactively manage expectations across multiple stakeholders and priorities

• Achieve results through influence over both external and internal organizations

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of interfacing effectively with executive management

• Program management project management and risk management of programs and projects

• Creative operational thinking with a strategic viewpoint

• Strong ethical values and integrity

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)

• Private Medical Insurance

• 25 paid days of annual leave

• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan

• Holiday Purchase scheme

• Dental and Travel Insurance options

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Salary Sacrifice Cars

• Subsidised Gym Membership

• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholders specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent definitive and exhaustive statement.

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