Working Student Digital Product Management (all genders) - #2107356

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 for marketing 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 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 digital product management while exploring responsibilities of product marketing, product operations and support
• You can get insights into stakeholder management in connection to the music business
• You learn about user-centric product management
• As part of a central department, you get insights into different parts of the music business and learn about how record labels work
• You will become the product expert for ALPHA, you will learn deeply about its capabilities and become the go-to-person for innovative solutions to ensure both user and product success

Your gig:

• You are working closely with the product managers of the internal UMG product called ALPHA in the business enablement division
• You work within a cross-functional setting, including change managers, engineers, product trio and research in remote locations
• 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 processes and user-centric mindset within the whole company
• You help define our agile processes and organize ceremonies like Retrospectives, Epic reviews and other ad-hoc meetings
• You prepare user educational material, workshops, presentations, vlogs, infographics and data flow charts
• You are a guardian for product quality, including regular QA of new developments and bug reporting
• You take the lead in defining the communication channels with our users and announce new releases in a user-friendly way
• You contribute to the development of our Beats & Bytes community
• … what else would you like to learn? Let’s talk about it, the possibilities are endless with us!

We are keen to jam with you if you:

• You study business, product management, marketing or another relevant field of study
• You love engaging with users and teammates in different locations
• You have experience working with different user-centric product teams
• You have passion for digital technology and user-centered design
• You have great communication skills and are quick to solve problems innovatively
• 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 and international team
• English and German skills are mandatory in reading, writing and speaking

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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