What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager, Creator position at SoundCloud?
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.
We’re looking for a qualified Senior Product Manager for our Creator team. This person will enhance the music upload experience, making SoundCloud the best platform to share music online. 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 role is based out of our New York City office and other East Coast locations upon review.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and lead the product discovery, product strategy, vision and roadmap for the upload 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 range for this role is $150,000 - $165,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program read more about additional benefits and perks below!
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
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Robust 401k program
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
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.
Salary : $150,000 - $165,000
