Senior Product Manager – Data Products

Job title: Senior Product Manager – Data Products

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Product Manager – Data Products to lead the strategy and execution of data assets that power analytics, ML/AI, and enterprise reporting across Universal Music Group. You’ll partner with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data products and a governed data platform that enables experimentation and personalization. The role reports to the Sr. Director of Product Management (Data Platform).

What You'll Do

• Own and execute the roadmap for data assets and curated data products, aligned with marketing, ecommerce, and AI enablement priorities.

• Define, track, and report key data product metrics (adoption, data quality, latency, completeness, downstream usage).

• Define and deliver reusable, scalable data assets for analytics, BI, ML, and operational use cases.

• Partner with data engineering, governance, and analytics teams to define data models, transformation logic, and data quality standards.

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications for data ingestion, transformation, and semantic layers.

• Ensure data assets support experimentation, personalization, predictive analytics, and AI initiatives.

• Support integrations with new data sources to enhance completeness and enrichment.

• Remove impediments for engineering teams due to unclear requirements, misaligned priorities, or stakeholder ambiguity.

• Demonstrate the company’s VIBE values—authenticity, boldness, creativity, connection, drive, and insight—in collaboration and leadership.

• What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience, with significant experience in data products, data platforms, or analytics ecosystems.

• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts (data marts, semantic layers).

• Experience partnering with data engineering and analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

• Familiarity with modern data stack technologies (cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools) and marketing automation platforms (CRMs, CDPs).

• Strong SQL proficiency; ability to explore and validate data independently.

• Experience defining and measuring data quality and governance standards.

• Ability to translate complex data architecture concepts into clear business outcomes.

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving alignment across diverse teams.

• Previous experience as a management consultant is a plus.

• Strong storyteller and systems thinker.

• Knowledge of the music and label business is a plus.

• Nice to Have

• Management consulting background (additional relevance)

• Knowledge of the music/entertainment industry.

• Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $84,780 - $160,000 USD per year.

• Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; 100% outpatient mental health coverage; fertility coverage; wellbeing reimbursements up to $720/year; student loan repayment assistance; tuition reimbursement.

• 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of contributions, plus additional company contributions.

• Generous time off: Flexible PTO for exempt, 3 weeks PTO for non-exempt, 2 weeks paid Winter Break, 10 holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day), Summer Fridays.

• Parental leave programs and other perks.