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About the Role

Shape the future of UMGB's data, insight and AI capabilities by leading the strategy, development, and adoption of proprietary platforms that transform cultural intelligence into commercial advantage. Combine product leadership, analytics, AI, engineering, and innovation to build enterprise solutions for global teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global Data & Innovation strategy, aligning product, technology, and commercial priorities.
• Own the roadmap for proprietary insight platforms, evolving MVPs into secure, scalable enterprise products.
• Surface data-driven cultural trends from UMG's proprietary datasets and translate them into actionable commercial opportunities.
• Develop category, audience, and market insights that underpin strategic planning, client engagement, and new business.
• Build intuitive self-service dashboards and workflows that democratize access to insights across global markets.
• Connect internal, partner, and licensed datasets through modern APIs and data products to enrich intelligence capabilities.
• Champion data provenance, transparency, and explainability through evidence-backed insights, confidence scoring, and methodology documentation.
• Lead responsible AI implementation, ensuring generated outputs are source-grounded, explainable, governed, and suitable for external use.
• Establish governance frameworks spanning AI, data quality, security, privacy, auditability, and enterprise compliance.
• Lead strategic conversations around clean rooms, data partnerships, measurement, and emerging technology with brands, agencies, and platform partners.
• Drive continuous innovation across AI, creative technology, and cultural intelligence, identifying new commercial opportunities.
• Partner with Strategy, Commercial, Engineering, Design, and Analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable product solutions.
• Embed best practices across product development, engineering, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Lead global product adoption, training, and change management to maximize business impact.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading data, analytics, digital product, or innovation functions.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise data products or SaaS platforms from concept through deployment.
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to translate technical capability into client value.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture including APIs, authentication, RBAC, audit logging, and cloud platforms.
• Experience establishing data governance, provenance, and quality frameworks.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence executive, commercial, and technical audiences.
• Highly collaborative, strategically minded, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while remaining hands-on when required.
• Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing teams.

Skills

• SQL
• Modern analytics platforms
• Python (desirable)
• BigQuery (desirable)
• BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI or Domo) (desirable)
• AI-enabled products
• LLM workflows
• Explainability
• Governance
• Responsible AI

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Media or related discipline
• MBA or postgraduate qualification desirable

About the Company

• Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's leading music company.
• UMG for Brands (UMGB) is the dedicated brand agency of Universal Music Group, creating innovative business solutions that connect brands with culture through music.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.