Senior Data Product Manager Streaming and Social
Santa Monica, CA - USA
Job Summary
We are UMG the Universal Music Group. We are the worlds leading music 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.
How we LEAD:
We seek an experienced and driven Sr. Data Product Manager Streaming & Social within the Global Data & Analytics Products team.
As AI transforms how artists are discovered audiences are understood and content performance is optimized; trusted consumption data becomes a strategic enterprise this role you will ensure UMGs streaming and social data products are AI-ready by designgoverned semantically consistent observable and trustedenabling analytics predictive models intelligent agents and generative AI applications to reliably consume music consumption data at enterprise scale. Youll also embrace AI as part of your own product management practice using modern AI tools to accelerate discovery documentation prototyping and collaboration while maintaining a relentless focus on delivering measurable business outcomes.
You are passionate about treating data as a product and building trusted scalable data foundations that enable data-driven decision-making across UMG. You understand that great data products require more than pipelinesthey require clear ownership reliability governance usability and stakeholder trust.
In this role you will lead the strategy and execution of enterprise data products and domain-specific data marts that serve as the authoritative source of truth for music consumption and streaming/social engagement across UMG. These products will power reporting analytics predictive modeling AI applications intelligent audience insights artist development repertoire strategy marketing effectiveness forecasting and executive decision-making. By establishing trusted governed and semantically rich data products you will help create the enterprise data foundation that enables AI-driven insights and intelligent decision-support across UMG.
You will partner closely with Global Insights Commercial Strategy Digital Business Marketing Label Analytics Data Engineering and Governance teams to define build and continuously improve trusted data products that are reliable discoverable and broadly adopted across the organization.
You will champion product management principles within the data ecosystem ensuring consumption & social data products have clear roadmaps service levels semantic definitions documentation quality standards and measurable business outcomes.
This role reports to the Sr. Director of Product Management (Data Platform).
How youll CREATE:
- Champion AI-ready data products by ensuring trusted business definitions semantic consistency metadata lineage observability documentation and governance are embedded into every streaming and social data product.
- Ensure data products are designed to support emerging AI capabilitiesincluding semantic retrieval recommendation systems intelligent agents and LLM-powered experiencesthrough high-quality well-governed enterprise data
- Partner with Commercial Strategy Global Insights Label Analytics Marketing Finance and Digital Business teams to define trusted business metrics KPIs and standardized consumption definitions.
- Manage the lifecycle of external consumption data sources ensuring licensed datasets are consistently ingested governed documented monitored and integrated into trusted enterprise data products.
- Define scalable dimensional models and semantic layers supporting streaming activity audience engagement artists releases tracks playlists social engagement territories and commercial performance.
- Establish authoritative data products that serve as the source of truth for music consumption performance across labels artists releases and markets.
- Standardize business definitions for metrics including streams listeners followers saves playlist reach engagement audience growth chart performance market share and consumption trends.
- Partner with engineering teams to implement SLAs monitoring observability incident management and operational support processes.
- Establish and maintain data contracts with internal and external consumption data providers to improve reliability and predictability.
- Drive adoption of consumption data products through business-friendly documentation semantic models stakeholder enablement and training.
- Evaluate opportunities to improve business outcomes by applying AI to music consumption audience behavior and content performance while maintaining strong governance and data quality standards.
Bring your VIBE:
- 5 years of product management experience supporting digital music streaming audience analytics media entertainment or digital content organizations.
- Experience delivering data products that support AI machine learning predictive analytics or generative AI initiatives
- Strong understanding of the digital music ecosystem including streaming platforms social media platforms audience measurement and music consumption trends.
- Experience working with music consumption datasets including streaming activity artist performance release performance audience engagement playlists social signals and chart data.
- Familiarity with industry data providers and platforms such as Spotify Apple Music YouTube Amazon Music TikTok Meta Luminate Chartmetric SoundCloud Pandora or similar consumption and audience analytics platforms.
- Understanding of artist lifecycle analytics audience development catalog performance playlisting fan engagement and commercial music performance measurement.
- Demonstrated experience owning data products throughout their lifecycle from strategy and requirements through adoption and operational support.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage modern AI tools to accelerate product discovery documentation analysis and collaboration.
- Strong understanding of the data foundations required for enterprise AI including dimensional modeling data warehousing concepts data marts semantic layers and modern analytics architectures.
- Experience in defining and managing data quality frameworks governance standards and operational reliability practices.
- Experience in establishing and managing data contracts and cross-functional data ownership models.
- Strong SQL proficiency preferred with the ability to independently validate requirements and investigate data issues.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and stakeholder value.
- Exceptional stakeholder management communication and influence skills.
- Strong systems thinker with a customer-centric product mindset.
Perks Playlist:
Join an entrepreneurial global organization where authenticity boldness creativity connection drive and insight arent just valuestheyre how we work every day. Here are some of the ways we support you along the way (and just a few of the benefits we offer):
Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
Including 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services
Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants
Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes spa treatments meal services travel and so much more (up to $720/year)
Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of your contributions plus an additional UMG contribution
A variety of ways to prioritize much-needed time away from work including:
Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
2-weeks paid Winter Break
10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
Check out our full overview of benefits on the Perks Playlist page of the career site.
Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.
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Salary Range:
$ 121500 - $185000The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors which may include as applicable the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position years of relevant experience specific and unique skills level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. All candidates are encouraged to apply.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company. We own and operate a broad array of businesses in more than 60 countries.