Universal Music Group

Senior Manager, Data Product - Streaming and Social

Universal Music Group$121K — $160K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience in digital music or streaming industries.
  • Experience with AI-related data products, predictive analytics, or generative AI.
  • Strong understanding of the digital music ecosystem, including streaming and social platforms.
  • Proficient in managing music consumption datasets and audience engagement metrics.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy and execution of AI-ready data products for music consumption.
  • Ensure semantic consistency and governance in streaming and social data products.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to define business metrics and KPIs.
  • Manage lifecycle and consistency of external data sources for enterprise use.
  • Drive product adoption through training and business-friendly documentation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage including mental health services.
  • Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness and wellness-related expenses.
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement available.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off and generous parental leave.
  • 401(k) with immediate vesting on contributions.
Full Job Description
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 asset. In this role, you will ensure UMG's streaming and social data products are AI-ready by design-governed, semantically consistent, observable, and trusted-enabling analytics, predictive models, intelligent agents, and generative AI applications to reliably consume music consumption data at enterprise scale. You'll 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 pipelines-they 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 you'll 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 capabilities-including semantic retrieval, recommendation systems, intelligent agents, and LLM-powered experiences-through 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 aren't just values-they're 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. Job Category: Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence Salary Range: $ 121,500 - $160,000 The 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.

About Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (UMG) is a global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi. The company was founded in 1934 as Decca Records and has since grown to become the largest music company in the world, with a market share of over 30%. UMG owns and operates a wide range of record labels, including Capitol Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Island Records, and has a roster of over 4,000 artists. In addition to music production and distribution, UMG also operates several other businesses, including music publishing, merchandising, and film and television production.
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