Product Owner for Music Courses - Muse Group
Muse Group is a music technology company that develops content apps and web platforms. All designed to support online communities, providing sheet music, audio and guitar tablature, audio editing, music education and music notation software. We currently reach over 400 million users worldwide through our portfolio of Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, Audacity, StaffPad, and more.
Our primary mission is to serve musicians at all skill levels by providing them with free resources and creation tools. We advocate the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and rewarding talent and we believe all creatives are true pioneers.
We provide opportunities for creative expression for all, based on true talent and passion for music; rather than on the basis of accessibility of, or the ability to, afford music creation tools.
The company has 7 products (verticals) and ecosystem directions (horizontals) - Monetization, Marketing, Content, ML, Operations, and others that help each product and business as a whole to develop and grow. We also plan to increase the number of products in our portfolio and expand into new markets and user segments.
We’re constantly evolving therefore after months of research and user feedback we’re launching a new strand - educational courses for musicians. This will give all of our users access to our catalogue of video courses on music theory and how to play different instruments.
Our courses are proving popular hence the exciting move in this direction. Users can learn to play a plethora of instruments by taking our courses, practice freely, and share their results through our platform.
Key responsibilities:
Required Experience and Skills:
Nice to have:
We Offer:
Our primary mission is to serve musicians at all skill levels by providing them with free resources and creation tools. We advocate the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and rewarding talent and we believe all creatives are true pioneers.
We provide opportunities for creative expression for all, based on true talent and passion for music; rather than on the basis of accessibility of, or the ability to, afford music creation tools.
The company has 7 products (verticals) and ecosystem directions (horizontals) - Monetization, Marketing, Content, ML, Operations, and others that help each product and business as a whole to develop and grow. We also plan to increase the number of products in our portfolio and expand into new markets and user segments.
We’re constantly evolving therefore after months of research and user feedback we’re launching a new strand - educational courses for musicians. This will give all of our users access to our catalogue of video courses on music theory and how to play different instruments.
Our courses are proving popular hence the exciting move in this direction. Users can learn to play a plethora of instruments by taking our courses, practice freely, and share their results through our platform.
Key responsibilities:
- Propose a detailed and ambitious product strategy for the Courses development
- Take over and complete the execution of the Courses Product
- Be responsible for the unit economics to achieve revenue goals
- Work on external traffic and interest in Courses and increase Product NPS
- Attract new authors and maintain a consistently high retention rate of authors
- Be responsible for the Courses content and production of new courses if needed
- Build a team necessary to develop the described Product
- Manage projects and work closely with colleagues from the Executive Team and Product teams
Required Experience and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner with a proven track record of strategic decisions that resulted in significant user and revenue growth
- Hands-on experience in establishing processes (planning, delivering, reporting, etc)
- Experience in identifying significant growth opportunities for the product (new user segments, new markets, new business models, etc) and their implementation
- High analytical literacy with a proven track record of data-driven decisions that had a significant impact on product and business performance
- Music background (music school or knowing how to play a musical instrument)
- Ability to translate business goals into the product development plan
- Strong management skills with an ability to prioritize according to business objectives
- Excellent leadership and communication skills in managing remote teams in multiple locations; ability to build lasting relationships
- A healthy balance between quality and speed (i.e. high work standards and developing ahead of the competitors)
- Result-driven attitude and critical thinking
- Experience working with international markets
- Fluent spoken and written English for efficient communication
Nice to have:
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Experience working with a product that has a large international community would be an advantage (our products have a long history and a large community of musicians)
We Offer:
- International experience: become a part of an international team, from the US to the UK and beyond.
- Creativity every day: we make products for musicians, artists and creators, and so each of us is a bit of a musician.
- Opportunity to influence the development of the music industry: we positively impact the lives of 400 million musicians around the world - and growing! And also on this role you will influence on business decisions at the company level as well.
- Growth: we pay for specialized training, language lessons, conferences and business books.
- Care: we offer generous health insurance, discount on insurance for family members, therapy and assistance in difficult life circumstances.
- Relocation support to Cyprus for employee and family members (if needed).
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