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It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From AandR to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.Department Description
With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers and maintains a number of technical solutions to calculate royalty accountings in a timely and accurate manner to our valued artists. We’re also providing them with an extent and detailed visibility of these earning from various sources of digital incomes.The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions as well as supporting best practices and new processes for a better royalty flow.The Role
The Product Owner is a liaison between our business and development teams, driving software products to success by recognising strategic need and tactical goals. Managing the expectations of our stakeholders across multiple business teams is essential with a solution-oriented focus. The Product Owner will convert those expectations and domain knowledge into clear solution for both business and development teams in a big data team, playing an essential role for collaborative and successful products and becoming the subject matter expert for some of the Royalty and Copyright applicationsKey Responsibilities
Be TechnicalForm up the solution and ensure that it is delivered to the development team in an appropriate form of user stories, process flows and wireframes to enable the development to proceed with minimal analysis supportOrchestrate the development by creation of tickets, estimation, sprint management and scrum masterDefine User Acceptance test plansPlay the role of Product Owner in an Agile MethodologyCreating Business models incorporating process and data modellingBe KnowledgeableDevelop a sound knowledge of the business domainAcquire subject matter expertise and provide thought leadership in our products and processes, to drive excellence in our servicesDocument and agree requirements with end usersBe CommercialBe a passionate advocate of the product visionManage prioritisation of the product backlog to be continually aligned to business valueBuild positive relationships with business stakeholders and development teamsFacilitate regular meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements, update them on progress and address concernsCommunicate project status to stakeholders and team members throughout the course of a projectAssist our programme managers in overall project management and deliveryContribute to effective presentations and workshopsSkills and Experience required
Must haveProven track record working as a Business AnalystDemonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes / process mapping and managing with stakeholdersAbility to form up the problem solution, use of wire-framing and other techniquesAbility to work with the development team and ensure on-time delivery (local and offshore)A proven track record in Software DevelopmentEnd to end experience of the product and software lifecyclesProven experience interacting directly with end usersResults orientated with exceptional communication and interpersonal skillsStrong understanding of Agile project methodologyAbility to break solution down into sprints working in an Agile project methodologyExperienced in defining Epics and User StoriesStrong understanding of key technologies and limitationsAble to command respect with Senior Business ManagersAbility to drive coherent product developmentBusiness focussedSelf-starter, strong initiative and leadershipNice to haveMusic industry business knowledge is highly desirableKey Behavioural/Personality Traits
You will have a strong track record across the full lifecycle of projects, proving the ability to communicate with business stakeholders, understand business pain points, translate requirements into solutions, and transfer knowledge to an Agile project team for multiple IT products.Just so you know…The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder''s specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.Seniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
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