Senior Product Manager - Creator

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 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 over $100 million per year and is experiencing rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help shape the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for how we deliver the best possible music distribution experience to artists


• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Design, Engineering, and other partners to translate the product strategy into a clear, executable roadmap, ensuring alignment on priorities, scope, and delivery milestones


• Drive a compelling product vision and strategy by communicating clearly and persuasively with stakeholders to build shared understanding


• Translate strategic business objectives into a focused quarterly roadmap and prioritized team backlog, ensuring that initiatives are sequenced for maximum impact and grounded in clear success metrics


• Build a scalable growth model and communication framework that equips stakeholders with a shared understanding of product performance, aligns the organization around key opportunities, and informs data-driven decision-making


• Synthesize and communicate outcomes, insights, and recommendations to peers and business stakeholders for continuous improvement and strategic alignment across teams

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 and 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 and can 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 $140,000 - $175,000 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 Equity 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.