Senior Product Manager

TitleSenior Product Manager (6-month contract)

New York

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

 

SoundCloud is looking for a qualified Senior Product Manager for our Creator team. This person will focus on our music distribution product and services that artists use to get their music on streaming services across the globe. The Creator team at SoundCloud owns the experience for artists including upload, distribution, fan interaction, fan powered royalties and promotion tools. This team generates more than $100 million per year and is growing fast.

 

This position is a 6-month contract role.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the product strategy, vision and roadmap for the music distribution product area 
• Work with design and engineering to execute the roadmap
• Communicate vision and strategy to stakeholders
• Translate strategic business goals into a quarterly roadmap and team backlog
• Develop a growth model and communication framework for educating stakeholders and evaluating opportunities
• Communicate outcomes and learnings with peers and business stakeholders

Experience and Background:

• Bachelor's degree or work experience in a relevant field with 5+ years of product management experience as well as experience with agile methodology. Consistent track record of wins and takeaways
• Experience building music technology products at a music distribution company, streaming service, or record label
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions
• Thorough, detail-oriented and organized. Able to lead multiple parallel projects
• Outstanding verbal and written communication, as well as a high level of comfort leading workshops and presentations with a diverse group of stakeholders and teams.
• Familiarity with the music industry

The salary for the 6-month contract is $92,000.

 

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.