Vice President / Global Head of Fraud Prevention (all genders) - #2173455

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.

UMG’s fraud prevention team is leading the industry by example in fighting the existential threats of streaming fraud and copyright fraud. This critical role will lead day-to-day operations and oversee a team focused on investigating stream manipulations and copyright infringement, including a strategic copyright infringement lead, a manger responsible for coordination across all internal labels and external DSP partners, and a team of specialized data analysts to help investigate and document fraud threats.

Here’s your chance to join! Effective immediately, we’re looking for a Vice President / Global Head of Fraud Prevention (all genders) to join us at our Headquarters in Berlin, reporting directly to our Senior Vice President for Business Development and Content Strategy in the US, and collaborating with a globally with a remote team. It will be a permanent full-time position.

Your gig:

• Senior Leadership and Strategy Lead: Responsible for briefing key UMG stakeholders, developing all aspects of team reporting and KPIs, designing evidence briefs for legal and policy action
• Operational Oversight and cross functional collaboration with key partners in business affairs, digital strategy, content protection, commercial affairs, label teams, and other key UMG stakeholders
• Digital Strategy Interface: provide evidence and data to define operational and data requirements, inform negotiations and oversee UMG implementation of contractual fraud commitments, partner engagement, data and reporting
• Strategic Lead for DSP Partner Engagement by driving DSP Partner engagement around fraud including synchronization with / enhancements to partner processes, and holding regular meetings, develop feedback systems and conduct business reviews to ensure processes and partner approaches are working to maximum effect
• Compile and Prioritize Evidence Briefs: Help compile, prioritize and disseminate fraud evidence across appropriate teams; act as the primary point of contact with the litigation team
• Oversee Data Strategy, Centralization and Analysis by designing how data should be collected and disseminated internally, in addition to adjusting for partner data share, and working with leadership at DSPs and vendors, aiming to build collaborative data feedback systems to better identify macro fraud trends and bad actors
• Lead Fraud Technology Strategy and Design: Envisage and deploy fraud detection systems and current process enhancements
• Foster Third Party Technology Partnerships to enhance scalability and efficacy in investigating of streaming and copyright fraud
• Lead Company Education: Spearhead and design internal education and process roll-out with teams around the world, from both a market and label perspective
• Evangelize and Engage in Public Forums, with Trade Bodies and Industry Groups as UMG lead for fraud related research projects; be the public face and voice of UMG’s fraud efforts, present at trade shows and conferences, design white papers on findings, and other similar projects

We are keen to jam with you if you:

• Hold a BA degree in related field of study
• Have a successful track record of at least 5 years of experience at a major record label or DSP
• Have working experience with copyright, content protection, different types of fraud threats (specifically stream manipulation and copyright infringement), and/or social media content management, preferred
• Are eager and experienced to hold a leadership position based on your domain knowledge and people management skills
• Have an operational understanding of the digital music landscape and ecosystem
• Gained extensive data management and analytical experience to spot trends in fraud and purvey actionable insights
• Shine through superior presentation skills (oral and written), with the experience and ability to communicate at senior levels of a corporation
• Possess excellent English language skills in written and spoken are a must, German language skills a plus
  
  

Your personality matters:

• You are enthusiastic about the music industry and want to actively contribute to building connections between artists and fans by fighting the existential threats of streaming fraud and copyright fraud
• You enjoy contributing your ideas and driving innovation; you always have a keen ear for the ideas of others
• You thrive on taking ownership within your role, seeing things through successfully while at the same time taking the needs of relevant stakeholders into account
• You have an analytical mindset and know how to back up your decisions with conclusive data
  
  

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.
  
  

Our benefits – because you're important to us:

• Feel the music! – Thanks to a concert ticket budget, streaming service vouchers, employee discounts on physical music and merchandise products as well as various internal events
• Enjoy flexibility! – Thanks to our hybrid work model you benefit from high flexibility and room for collaboration and interactions in our headquarter in Berlin; benefit from up to 10 mobile working days a month
• Time to relax! – You are more than your job, benefit from 30 vacation days as well as up to 10.5 additional days off per year
• Always on track! - Keep moving sustainably through the capital thanks to special rates for BVG tickets (public transport) and our job bike leasing offer
• Develop yourself! - We offer professional development through various workshops and courses
• Self-care matters! – We promote and support mental health with our Employee Assistance Program for all challenges in life (professional and private); we offer confidential counseling and coaching through a third-party provider

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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 as well as salary expectations.

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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