Product Owner jobs in Germany

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Beats & Bytes (B3S) is Universal Music Germany's innovative tech organization, operating as a network of empowered microenterprise teams. We bridge global UMG technology with local German innovation, developing products that drive business value across Marketing and Sales while scaling successful solutions beyond Central Europe.

Here’s your chance to join! Effective immediately, we’re looking for a Data Product Manager (all genders) to become part of our Beats & Bytes team at our Headquarters in Berlin. It will be a permanent full-time position.

Your gig:

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for B3S Data platform and Marketing data-driven applications, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives
• Act as the key liaison between business stakeholders (including Marketing and Sales), and engineering teams to translate business needs into technical requirements and roadmaps cross teams, as well as epics and user stories
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation and discovery through development, launch, and iteration, prioritizing initiatives to maximize business value and ROI
• Define and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and product metrics to measure the success of data products, making data-informed decisions for future improvements
• Champion a data-driven culture by communicating the value and impact of data products to stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• You always have an eye on user-support and make sure it has the utmost quality
• You are an active member of the product management community of practice
• You share your know-how, e.g., in the form of trainings, presentations or workshops, which you prepare yourself

We are keen to jam with you if you:

• You have a degree in economic science, management, product management or another relevant field
• You have 3 years of professional experience as a product manager within the data ecosystem, experience within the music industry domain is a plus
• You communicate efficiently (written and verbally) in a business and in tech context
• You excel strategic, system and analytical thinking and have the skill to distill business opportunities into a single number
• You feel confident and natural reading, writing, and speaking English and can communicate efficiently in tech as well as business-related contexts; German skills are a plus, but the willingness to learn the language is a must

Your personality matters:

• You are enthusiastic about the music industry and eager to actively contribute to building an inspiring ecosystem for artists, creatives and fans
• You have a high digital affinity and are passionate about new technologies as well as digital transformation
• You thrive working in interdisciplinary teams and you’d choose teamwork over heroism anytime; you maintain an open communication with your colleagues and have excellent people skills
• You can quickly empathize with other people's perspectives and know exactly when to stand your ground and how to present it convincingly in a very comprehensible and goal-oriented manner
• You consider yourself an innovator and initiator who enables its environment to think outside the box; you love contributing creative ideas and thrive within a dynamic environment
• You've been described as reliable and well-organized which allows you to stay focused, structured and calm - even in stressful situations
• Your thinking is guided by strategy, analysis and innovation which enables you to connect the dots quickly and logically

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.

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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.

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