Product Manager

Kobalt Intro:

​Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels. 

Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Adrhitz, the startup built a platform to maximise efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As the traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. 

With over 400 employees in 12 offices around the world, Kobalt today represents over 31,000 artists and songwriters, 700,000 songs and 600 publishing companies. Kobalt is proud to work with artists, songwriters, and companies like Childish Gambino, Max Martin, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more. 

Context: 

Kobalt continues to grow 3x faster than the market and as such has a continuous focus on scaling out its systems, products and services to cope with the increasing demand. This role will sit in our Product, Design and Delivery team.

As a Product Manager at Kobalt Music Group, you'll be at the forefront of bringing in new products and making sure things run smoothly. Your experience in Product Management gives you awesome problem-solving and organisational skills, helping you spot chances for new products. You're great at achieving big goals in fast-paced settings, which is crucial for our wider replatforming program. With a history of seeing products through from start to finish, your expertise will be key in tackling tough challenges and making projects successful. You're familiar with Agile methods and enjoy trying out new approaches, fitting right into our fast and creative work culture. Your knack for communication and influence makes you great at working with different teams and senior stakeholders. Join us and be a driving force in shaping the future of Kobalt Music Group!

Who is the Product organisation?

The Product organisation is made up of four distinct functions: Product Management, Programme & Delivery Management, UX & Design and Business Analysis. Each of these functions work together to create products and services for our B2C users (songwriters, artists etc) and B2B users (publishing companies and our internal teams, from Creative to Writer & Publisher Relations teams and more) 

Our products and technology have gone through significant transformation over the last few years and, as such this role will provide analysis to further the continuation of this journey whilst maximising business impact and process optimisation across our business.

What you will bring:

• Excellent problem-solving, organisational, technical writing and analytical skills
• Proactive product management; the drive to seek out opportunities for new products or features – identifying problems and offering solutions
• Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• A track record of delivering products from early specification through to completion
• Ability to evolve product strategy based on research, data, industry trends and technology developments
• Familiarity with Agile methods and the ability to promote new approaches in a changing, unstructured environment would be highly desirable
• Ability to share expertise and promote diversity while navigating a complex organisation
• Diplomacy and gravitas to engage and influence senior stakeholders and engineering colleagues. Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders from different parts of the organisation
• Hands-on experience with JIRA ticketing, feature specifications, feature prioritisation, backlog refinement
• Some basic knowledge of the music industry is beneficial but not essential if we find the right candidate
• Data analytics skills are a plus (SQL, Tableau, Athena)

What does success look like:

• Support and deliver technical product solutions to the Kobalt teams
• Work closely with engineering, product and Kobalt business operations teams 
• Support the design and improvement of the products that are used to support both Kobalt’s internal staff alongside our Publisher and Writer clients
• Manage and resolve operational issues in the technology stack 
• Customer first mindset and obsessed about building and maintaining trust with both internal and external customers
• Value and be a culture ambassador for Kobalt
• Play an active role in promoting Kobalt’s brand by attending and being involved in events and networking 

What do we offer:

• Salary Range: Discuss with the Talent Partner. 
• Flexible working. KTech operates with a hybrid working policy. 
• 25 days annual holiday
• 1 wellbeing day per quarter.  
• Half day summer Fridays (July and August). 
• Christmas closure.
• Meeting free Friday afternoons outside of the summer months. We use this as dedicated learning time. 
• 5% pension contribution. 
• Health Insurance. 

Interview Process and our commitments to you:

• Recruiter Call (30 mins)
• Hiring Manager Call (60 mins) 
• Presentation to a selection of Product team and business stakeholders (60 mins) 
• Cultural Round (30-45 mins) 

• We are committed to completing the process in 2 working weeks and are willing to be flexible to meet the candidates requirements. 

• We are also committed to providing feedback on each interview no longer than 24hrs after the interview via email, telephone call or Google Meet.