Staff Product Manager
Staff Product Manager at UnitedMasters, a music-distribution marketplace connecting independent artists, labels, brands, and fans. The role owns multi-quarter product strategy for artist/label tools, ships AI-powered creator features, mentors PMs, and drives cross-functional execution using AI tooling, JIRA/Confluence, and analytics platforms. Based in San Francisco (4 days in-office, 1 remote).
- Compensation
- $195K–$230K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Based in San Francisco with 4 days in-office and 1 day remote
- 8+ years of product management experience launching high-impact features end to end
- 3+ years operating at senior/lead level on a top-tier product team, ideally serving independent creators or small business owners
- Track record of setting product strategy for a significant area and driving measurable business outcomes
- Hands-on proficiency with AI tools to prototype, accelerate research and decision-making, and build artist-facing capabilities
- Translate big, ambiguous problems with many stakeholders into clear strategies and executable plans
- Connect features to desired outcomes and key results aligned to company goals
- Prioritize ruthlessly and make tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost
- Break down large problems into iterative milestones with clear success criteria
- Strong judgment on when and how to apply AI to artist-facing features and team productivity
- Hands-on experience building prototypes and proofs-of-concept with AI tooling
- Translate artist and stakeholder needs into clear product requirements, managing workflow ideally with JIRA/Confluence
- Operate as a multiplier: mentor other PMs, set standards, lift quality
- Artist obsession with a strong bias for action
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to derive actionable insights
Nice to have
- Experience shipping AI/ML-powered features to production with understanding of value, limitations, and responsible use
- Experience establishing AI-assisted workflows, reusable skills, or internal tooling
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence workflow management
- Hands-on experience with data tools like Amplitude, Sigma, Mode, Tableau
- Loves music and tech; great team player
- Music industry experience
- Excited to explore new business lines with an artist-first mentality
Full description
Who We Are
UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
This role is based in San Francisco with four days in-office and one day remote.
What You’ll Do
UnitedMasters is looking for a Staff Product Manager to operate as a force multiplier across the organization: setting product strategy for entire problem spaces, driving outsized business results, and raising the bar for how the entire product team builds. You will obsess over the functional and emotional needs of music creators and independent music labels at every stage of their growth, while pioneering how AI reshapes both what we build for artists and how we build it.
As a Staff PM, you are expected to lead through influence rather than authority, tackle our most ambiguous and highest-leverage problems, and mentor other PMs in the craft. You will partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and operations teams to improve and expand the full UnitedMasters product suite including tools for early-stage artists, high-traction artists, and independent record labels:
- Own product strategy for a major area of the business. Define and champion a multi-quarter, unified product vision and roadmap that supports all of our artists: early-stage artists, artists gaining traction, and independent labels and ensure they have the tools they need to release music, grow an audience, and earn money. Connect that strategy directly to company-level objectives.
- Pioneer AI-powered artist experiences. Identify, prototype, and ship AI-driven features that create step-change value for creators and labels from intelligent release and audience-growth tooling to earnings insights and creative assistance. Develop a strong point of view on where AI meaningfully improves the artist experience versus where it adds noise, and set the standard for responsible, high-quality AI product development across the company.