Senior AI-Ready Data Product Lead (Streaming & Social)

600 UMG Recordings Inc; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 121,500 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Wellbeing reimbursements (up to $720/​

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Universal Music Group is seeking an experienced Sr. Data Product Manager – Streaming & Social to drive AI-ready data products and trusted analytics for music consumption.

You will define roadmaps, governance, and semantic standards, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. The role emphasizes scalable data models, data contracts, and governance practices across streaming activity, audience engagement and catalog performance, with a clear path to enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience supporting digital music, streaming, audience analytics, media 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.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-ready data products with trusted definitions, semantics, metadata, lineage and governance.
• Define roadmaps, SLAs, semantic definitions and measurable business outcomes for data products.
• Collaborate with Commercial Strategy, Global Insights, Label Analytics and Marketing to define metrics and standardized consumption definitions.
• Manage lifecycles of external data sources, ensuring ingestion, governance and documentation.
• Define scalable dimensional models and semantic layers for streaming, audience engagement and catalog performance.
• Establish data products as sources of truth for music consumption performance across labels and markets.
• Standardize metrics definitions for streams, listeners, followers, playlists, engagement and market trends.
• Work with engineering to implement SLAs, monitoring and incident management.
• Establish data contracts with providers to improve reliability and predictability.
• Drive adoption of data products via documentation, models and stakeholder enablement.
• Evaluate AI applications to improve business outcomes while upholding data quality and governance.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

SQL

Data modeling

Data governance

AI/ML understanding

Communication

Systems thinking

Job description

Universal Music Group is seeking an experienced Sr. Data Product Manager – Streaming & Social to drive AI-ready data products and trusted analytics for music consumption.

You will define roadmaps, governance, and semantic standards, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. The role emphasizes scalable data models, data contracts, and governance practices across streaming activity, audience engagement and catalog performance, with a clear path to enterprise